UDWiki talk:Administration/Vandal Banning/Archive/2011 03

March 2011

Uhhhm

I wasn't aware impersonating no one was a vandal offense. Trying to trick a group on a talk page while probably not the coolest thing to do really doesn't have anything to do with bad faith editing. If anything it's probably more inline with the debate over alt-abuse in-game than anything the wiki administration should care about. --Karek^maps?! 01:35, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

All that checkuser confirms is that lawliet impersonated a different user with the same IP. I won't name the other user but will say that Lawiet has not claimed they are one in the same so my ruling was based on the fact that they were different users. ~ 01:43, 8 March 2011

Understandable but all you really have to go on for true identity is the IP in this circumstance. Neither has particularly large edit histories and they obviously wouldn't publicly acknowledge it in light of what they were doing unless they absolutely had to. Not to mention it seems pretty clear cut to me, without checkuser, that they're likely the same people simply from how ridiculous the comments are and the questions they raised. Odds are that the third involved user is also them considering the group page but that's for you guys to know. --Karek^maps?! 01:51, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

What if, though the chance is very slim indeed, the user in question is actually trying to play both sides of the coin, so to speak? I mean, he's pretty new, so he might be trying to get his alts to fight without really understanding the anti-zerg countermeasures... But, if he is trying to one-up the RRF using his new group, he's in for one helluva surprise... -- †  talk ? f.u. 12:58, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

I'm really hoping this is the case because I've been trying to help him for a while now... -- †  talk ? f.u. 13:11, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Even if this is deemed Vandalism, that doesn't mean that you have to stop to help. A/VB exists to undo damage and prevent future damage, not to pillory users and call in the riffraff to throw rotten tomatoes. Heck, I even helped Cornlolio on wiki matters, and boy did he work on getting escalated...
As for the case, at least to me it seems unlikely that this is a good faith attempt to fight her own alts. But then again, the whole linked discussion is weird. -- Spiderzed▋ 13:24, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

It's definitely weird. And thanks for helping me with my 'to help or not to help' dilemma. -- †  talk ? f.u. 13:28, 8 March 2011 (UTC)