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manshu

9:46 AM

@Emrakul Can we still suggest the topic for fortnight topic challenges?

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user61230

11:33 AM

@manshu 'course, definitely!

manshu

11:58 AM

@Emrakul So I need to make my answer 'community wiki'?

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Puzzling Meta

3:53 PM

Q: Garbled Comment Text

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user61230

5:51 PM

@manshu I don't think it's needed on that question, but you can if you'd like.

question_asker

7:04 PM

Why was this post deleted? It said it was spam or offensive, but it isn't puzzling.stackexchange.com/posts/30136/revisions

manshu

@Emrakul @Doorknob We might have a problem here

user61230

@question_asker Suspension evasion.

manshu

what is it?

user61230

A suspended user trying to skirt their suspension.

manshu

ohh...He/she could just use his/her sockpuppet

question_asker

7:18 PM

@Emrakul Oh? How were they doing that (I don't know the mechanics of suspension, so I don't know how somebody would be able to evade it)?

and why was that person suspended?

user61230

@question_asker For... reasons that should be pretty obvious, I'm not going to answer how to evade a suspension.

question_asker

@Emrakul yeah no that's not really what I meant by that question, I just figured a suspension would theoretically not let someone do (whatever), so I'm puzzled (heh) as to how they did (whatever).

user61230

Oh! Yeah, even so.

question_asker

I'm very confused

user61230

Sorry, something else brief came up.

question_asker

7:24 PM

no no, no problem

user61230

SE mods generally don't go into detail on suspension reasons or identify specific accounts.

question_asker

yeah that's understandable too

user61230

And... again, I'm not really sure going into details on exactly how to evade a suspension is a good idea, honestly. I wish I could give a more helpful answer, but...

user61230

[shrug]

question_asker

No no, I totally get where you're coming from

manshu

7:27 PM

reminds me of

Aug 30 '15 at 23:30, by lloyd

It must be really hard to be a mod on this site.

question_asker

I don't really want information like that so much as I just don't understand the mechanics of a suspension and I'm having a hard time finding good information on it (though there have been a couple that have explained what I saw)

user61230

@question_asker Easy solution: get suspended ;)

question_asker

it seems like, from what I'm reading, people IDed a sockpuppet, which just makes me wonder: how are mods sure of sockpuppetry (in the case I was reading about, they were coming from multiple IPs, but even a single IP is not necessarily the same person)

manshu

reminds me of:

Aug 30 '15 at 23:30, by Emrakul

I would like to remind our dear readers to please review the guidelines for acceptable sockpuppetry. Thank you!

answer is in the link

user61230

Yeah, Shog9 covers that pretty well. No tools are going to be infallible, but in reality, they're pretty dang good.

manshu

7:35 PM

@Emrakul What can be the reasons of suspension

question_asker

yeah that's pretty good. I still don't quite get how they decide two accounts coming from the same IP (this has to happen with colleges all the time, no? or, you know, people who have more than one person in their household?) are the same person.

user61230

@manshu Suspensions are almost always for abusive behavior toward the site or to the user, but can be, well. Pretty much any consistent, problematic behavior.

manshu

I take my behavior as problematic. So maybe I need to be more careful from now on. #TrueStory

question_asker

@manshu there's no way you're more problematic than I am

manshu

Let's sort it out in the other room

pydsigner

8:42 PM

Ugh I wish reasons were left on deleted answers

Puzzling Meta

9:03 PM

Q: Why was my answer deleted?

I was reading The harsh password change and after some of the other attempted answers, proposed own: http://puzzling.stackexchange.com/a/30133/19047 Coming back to check on it I found that it had been vote-deleted. Does anyone who down-voted have an explanation to share so that I can do better ...