Thread:RB-Man/@comment-5786857-20190308000543/@comment-8055391-20190408232802

Here's my take on this.

First, what was said in the email is correct. "It's not a violation of Fandom rules to simply possess alternate accounts." Let me make my stance on multiple accounts clear: I have no issue with anyone possessing two accounts; it's only when they use a second account to evade a block; that's what sockpuppetry is. Every time someone's come to me regarding a sockpuppet account, I always check both accounts to make sure the first account is blocked before I block the other. If the second account was made before the first account was either blocked or if it was never blocked at all, I don't take action. On the other hand... well, I think you all know already. I checked the accounts' block logs and, seeing as the Fandom staff couldn't find any link between the two, there's nothing else we really can do at this point.

Second, what kind of irks me a little about all this is the fact that it was a non-admin who sent that message. Here's the part of this thread that really stood out to me: MP6 wrote: Oh, by the way, this would help for checking his IP address.

https://community.fandom.com/wiki/Help:CheckUser Not to single out any one particular user, but why then didn't anyone think to do that themselves? And if you did, how come you didn't tell us? You guys are admins now, so unless either you were busy at the time, there was no reason for why either of you couldn't do this yourself. Now, I get that I haven't been as active I should be and I've been working on fixing that. On the other hand, Starlina's right when she says I was "occupied with some stuff"; however, that's life. I, and many others on RangerWiki, have always said that we have lives to live outside the wiki and can't always be on the wikis all the time. That being said, if this was back when it was just four admins and I and AdamantiumBladez were the only ones active, then I probably wouldn't have brought this up and I'd have done so myself. However, since we now have six admins in total, most of which were active in this conversation, I'm not really seeing where the excuse is here.

Anyways, that's my take on this whole situation. You guys (the admins) have been doing a good job so far as admins (even as I've been criticizing you guys as I'm writing this), though there are times (like this one) where we could've done just a little bit better.