Is this an opinion or are you referring to some site guidance? I ask because the only site guidance on the matter I am aware of is that multiple personalities be identified to the gods so that only 1 account may vote.

There are some very notable monks that have more than 1 account. I don't see anything wrong with it and have considered it myself though it seems like too much work keeping the identities straight.

Just because we haven't written up a specific ban on something doesn't mean it isn't against the best interests of the site nor that you are guaranteed to not "get into trouble" because of it.

Registering more than one account per person is certainly discouraged. We've identified several ways that are so clearly against site interest as to be worth out-right banning.

I have tye  for the same reason that I don't use 'root' to play tetris. You'll notice that with extremely rare exceptions I don't post nodes from that account nor chat from it. There are other accounts created for providing services and those who run them tend to have the good sense to not post / chat via such.

There are also some people who seem to have a hard time avoiding creating accounts for more whimsical reasons. Some of those actually do make postings or chat but usually quite rarely and only whimsically. These are tolerated with varying degrees of mirth and/or annoyance. Usually the annoyance doesn't rise to the point of any type of intervention. The behavior certainly isn't banned.

Replying (even indirectly) to "yourself" using an alternate account either in a thread or in the chatterbox is certainly against site interests, more so when not done whimsically. No, it isn't banned.

Even just keeping two accounts and using both to post is also against site interests. Luckily, the cases of this are quite rare. Most people seem to realize that such games are best kept to a minimum. Usually people who create a separate account eventually mostly abandon one or the other, thankfully.

- tye        

A new caveat was added to Site Rules Governing User Accounts recently that users may not use multiple roles to circumvent "borging or other restrictions". But, you're right there is no site rule that prevents multiple personalities from posting. In my opinion it is common courtesy not to switch personalities in the course of a single thread, but that's just my $0.02.

Indeed. Unfortunately, common courtesy seems to be a foreign concept to some people, while others uses sock puppets to flout it.

Is this an opinion or are you referring to some site guidance?

Just an opinion. But it's based on history.
(For more history, check the PMDs posted around Nov/Dec of 2000, as well as this Med from the same timeframe.)

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