User blog:Reddude/Rules for Sockpuppets

Following my last blog, people had a rather heated discussion on what should happen to sockpuppets.

Note: These rules would only affect future cases of sockpuppetry, because if they applied to the past the entire wiki would probably be banned.

Rules decided by the people of our very own chat, since this directly affects them.

Obvious Joke Socks: They said they shouldn't be allowed, but they shouldn't be bannable either. Users have said to just "not use socks" and if one comes on to just kick it. If a joke sock spams, it is then banned.

Sock puppets passed off as legitimate users: Once they are found out, the sock account will be banned indefinitely and the user controlling said sock shall be banned for 3 days (for a first offense) and one week for later offenses.

Ban evasion socks: Same as always, sock is banned indefinitely and the original account's banned lengthened.

These were all agreed upon, so don't crucify me. I hate to be the one to be kind of "leading" this thing, since a lot of users will be disappointed probably, but it was kind of abused to the point where it became a nuisance...

Any thoughts you have?

~Reddy