User:Anpang/Socks are stinky essay

This is a draft of an essay. Even though it is in my userspace, you are still welcome to edit it.

= Socks are stinky =

Disruptive socks, also known as sockpuppets, should not be allowed to roam around doing vandalism all over wikis. You may report obvious disruptive socks using the stewards' noticeboard, IRC, or the #cvt channel on discord. If there is an obvious disruptive sock on your wiki, you may block them.

How to look for socks
Finally, use common sense to see if the detected socks are disruptive.
 * Request a CheckUser sock check on the stewards' noticeboard;
 * Multiple accounts that do the same style of vandalism or have the same grammar.

Don't become a disruptive puppeteer
Disruptive socks are bad, obviously. Creating disruptive socks violate point number 3 of the Code of Conduct:
 * Harassment of other users is unacceptable. Depending on the severity of your actions, you may be warned once or immediately banned/quieted depending on the medium.

Socks do cause much annoyance for both moderators and normal users, so becoming a sock is all bad.

Want a clean start?
For example, you're in a situation where you've gotten a negative reputation. Don't make socks and act like a different person to make people not think you're the one that has the negative reputation - you'll get caught by users and moderators, mainly using CheckUser. Plus, your reputation will also go down when you're caught, and everyone will now know you are a puppeteer and will be aware that you may create another sock.

It's better to apologize for your mistakes, and continue with your original negative-reputated user account. It's better that way. Instead of lowering your reputation by creating socks, your reputation will stay stable with the same account. You'll also start to gain reputation if you do good things.