Re^2: Why was my account deleted?

[eyepopslikeamosquito]

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?

[LanX]

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.

°) 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.

[LanX]

> > 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