On 02/12/2007, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
What constitutes "bad behavior" is dependent in part on whether or not you're socking. According to arb com less than 24 hours ago, "Sockpuppet accounts are not to be used in discussions internal to the project, such as policy debates." While maybe that is an overbroad statement, I still think it's valid in at least some situations.
No, that's entirely fair.
It is, however, valid to say that *alternate* accounts can be used in internal discussions, so long as your use of them does not turn into sockpuppetry - in other words, keep them seperate and don't have them work on the same topics or in the same discussions and you're fine.
The trick is remembering that alternate accounts can become sockpuppets, but aren't automatically such, and the community has a long history of recognising that.