Board Thread:Admin Discussion/@comment-4146635-20130427061458/@comment-5384369-20130505044402

Frankly, because I'm just that kind of person, I do feel the need to defend this user. But I mean, c'mon, what's gonna happen? I'll be taunted for having morals? First of all, I wasn't never there for any of these. I didn't experience any of what was happening first hand. I only heard about it through looking at screenshot, messages, blog posts, and blocks. But I must admit, from my perspective, many users seemed to over exaggerate what was happening. It might not be, but who knows. I’m going to analyze this from 4 different perspectives. Logically, based off of guidelines, reasonably and psychologically.
 * Logically and based off of guidelines. Well, what Ari did was again guidelines because she was being rude and harassing others (it’s seems mainly Ali Valentine and HelloKittyR5) & what not, but there is proof that the others retaliated being just as rude. They didn’t get any of the consequences Ari did. ILLOGICAL. What I find totally illogical is how Kent can be banned for chat 14 times and the most recent ban is only for 1 month but Ari is rude 1 time and she’s banned for 3 months. I know that it was changed to 1 week, but still, Kent curses and misbehaves in chat and he’s only banned for 2 hours or a day. It was reveled in a message that Ali threatened to strangle Ari. Also, just because it was for a friend, it doesn’t give them the right to treat someone horribly, stoop down to that person's level and not be the better person. Then she was harassing Ali and Kitty by message walls. But, by technicality, it only turned into harassing onto Ali’s wall because of other people. Also, a message written by Ali Valentine mentioned how Ari has 4 wikis listed on her profile and she was blocked on 3 (including A&A). When you go on the wikis, she was blocked from editing; chat is where the events actually occurred. On the 2 other places where she was blocked, it occurred AFTER the Austin & Ally incidents on chat. So, clearly, the two users who blocked her are pretty much out to get Ari if they choose to block her for about 4 years for making about 2 edits. The punishment did not fit the crime. So, I just had to point that out because I think that because of that, a lot of users automatically became prejudice.


 * Guidelines: Really, this connects to her creating numerous accounts. Based off of guidelines, what Ari did wasn’t against guidelines at all. So, when she did open up a new account, she wasn’t breaking the Austin & Ally Wiki: Guidelines. Any guidelines that she was breaking were created in our head.


 * Reason. This one is so easy. They could have stopped it and let it go, but they didn’t. They just kept on stirring the fire and made things worse. So, really, everyone who was involved with this is so blame (Including me). Everyone had the choice on whether or not to back out, but people had to be stubborn, had to get the last word, and had to say something. This applies to the whole situation.

I think that just block their second account until the first one is up (that way the block still stands), and leave a message on both accounts, warning telling them not to create a second account. (Not to single out Macy, but you didn’t leave any warning, at least none that I am able to trace (meaning message walls). Although the reason for banning in chat was along the lines of “she should go through with her ban”, that’s not exactly a real warning, if you know what I mean. If I said “you should stop” that’s not exactly a formal warning and could be interpreted however. I may be wrong because you may have told Ari on chat or wherever else that I don’t know about. But, from my standpoint, you just blocked Ari with no real warning given.) (I got this from Harry Potter Wiki) All the accounts a user controls will be treated as the same person. In short, registering another username does not allow someone to create a new identity for him/herself: it won't allow a user to circumvent a block or vote more than once. An undisclosed alternate account used for disruptive or deceptive purposes is known as a sock puppet. If any of a user's accounts are to be blocked, then all accounts associated with that user will also be blocked. Please mark all known sock puppets with the template. (Also from Harry Potter) They have this thing where they have a userbox type thing where if you do have multiple accounts (because people do) but it’s for role playing, then the userbox just says that the account is just for role playing. link
 * Psychologically: I don’t blame Ari. I mean, at first it was a mistake that she was banned for 3 months, so that was probably her first motivation to get another account. Then, people were just mean to Ari for doing that. Ari then probably was forced to put up this fake front and act like she didn’t care. Also, if you haven’t noticed, chat is the place to actually interact with people live. Ari wanted to talk to people. She acted like probably anyone else would in that kind of situation (she probably didn’t read guidelines). She was banned. The rejection from others by banning her from chat and being mean to her caused her to become desperate. She became so desperate she decided to open a new account. Then it was a continuing cycle. I mean, I know that you shouldn’t break rules and just take your ban, but I don’t think people had to be so mean about it. Can you honestly say, even if Ari did finish her ban times, would people treat her same and just forget about that? My answer: NO.