in reply to Re: Why was my account deleted?
in thread Why was my account deleted?

Update: I made a mistake. You were actually referring to this account - which was not locked but rather zombified. (Two different things.) I have unzombified it. But note that secondary accounts don't get to vote on nodes.

I'm a bit embarrassed to admit I didn't know secondary accounts were allowed at PM. I just assumed they'd be banned, so as to avoid sock puppet "conversations" in threads, with the sock puppet loyally agreeing and praising his/her master ... admittedly, anonymonk can be used for that (as SunnyD was suspected of doing in the bad old days :-).

I just stumbled upon the Cookies secondary account created by Lady_Aleena here which I found to be fun. Yet I just don't see a plausible reason for the Ruby secondary account -- why create an account that just sits there doing nothing for 20 years?

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Re^3: Why was my account deleted?
by LanX (Saint) on Apr 28, 2024 at 09:15 UTC
    I have various secondary accounts, primarily for testing. ²

    (The remaining sockpuppets are primarily used to attack and insult me publicly. All this love and respect must be compensated)

    The rule is IIRC° that secondaries are allowed, as long as the gods are informed and can disable voting.

    It's stated somewhere, I forgot where... ¹

    On a more serious note, dear goldeneyelikeamosquito, I could think of many more reasons to have secondary accounts, much the same like for posting anonymous, but having the benefit to communicate and log.

    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)


    see Wikisyntax for the Monastery

    °) One of my biggest problems with English word order is where to correctly place abbreviations like "IIRC"

    ¹) Little known fact is that the topology of help and policy pages here inspired string theory, the cabal might be awarded with a noble price soon

    ²) Actually I lost track, but Gmail should know. Most probably were most already zombified and are now ravaging the graveyard of abandoned modules and eating the brain of former maintainers.

      > > I didn't know secondary accounts were allowed at PM.

      > It's stated somewhere, I forgot where...

      Actually not that hard

      • I had to log out
      • find the login page
      • follow the link to the rules

      Site Rules Governing User Accounts
      1. A person may have only one account which they use for voting.

      2. Any person creating multiple accounts must identify and report these to the gods (/msg gods) and identify the one account which is to be used for voting. The other accounts will be barred from voting.

      3. A person will not be able to use their voting account to vote on nodes belonging to any of their other accounts.

      4. Creating a new account in order to circumvent /borging or other restrictions will not be tolerated.

      Rest assured that any attempts to hide multiple accounts from the gods will fail. Have a nice day

      Cheers Rolf
      (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
      see Wikisyntax for the Monastery