leaders cannot control this, you can contact Discourse if you want. meanwhile you can open a discobot pm and put your op there
only the alt will be banned, but that doesn’t mean you should try that. you will also receive a warning or a silencing iirc
you might get an account strike if that still exists
whats an acc strike?
oh sorry, i mean a suspension strike
does that still exist?
yep, pretty sure that still exists
Also why can’t we have alts
They are no harm to us
imagine i hate you (not true no worries lol) and i want to hurt you in a way i dont get caught. easy method is to sign up with a new acc and insult you. so yes, there’s a way to harm us.
but generally it’s just super difficult for the leads to manage all the alts, send warnings, etc etc so they simply decided to ban alts. plus it doesn’t matter if you have one acc or one hundred acc, only your activity is the most important so there’s absolutely no point having an alt except having fun not listening to rules and therefore in the future get silenced and regret what’s been done lol :))
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and, spam exists - its easy to counter because of the post limit and silencing, but if alts were allowed, it would be much harder.
and as triangle said, theres not really a point to have one.
Omg I never thought about that! That’s crazy that people would do that /srs
There are some purposes to use alts, like it would be nice to have a separate acc if your doing a collab, but there’s so many things that could go wrong it’s not worth it to allow them
Others answered your questions already, but thought I’d give an official confirmation!
As other people said, this is a function for people that make the forum software (Discource) to implement. I agree it would be good to have, but it’s sadly outside our control.
In this hypothetical situation: when we notice your alt, we will ask you which account you want to keep. The other account will be suspended indefinitely. Unless something really bad happened, you will not be suspended right away for keeping an alt. However, you will most likely receive a community warning on the account you decide to keep.
They’re difficult for us to manage. If one of your accounts would receive a community warning, we would have to keep your warnings count in sync with all your alts. It would also be confusing for both us and other users if many people used multiple accounts. Imagine if this would be in real life. You’d have to memorize multiple names and appearances for each of your friends!
Just wondering, I’d the no alts thing on the app?
you can make as many alts as you want on the app!
I’m not able to be active for the next while - so if I miss any questions or requests (especially moderator-specific ones) know it’s not intentional! just pass them along to another leader or moderator :))
Where can I contact discourse
Aww man, I was planning to do a November fools trick next month lol
its okay to ask, but try not to be disruptive with your tricks
It can sadly not be done with alt accounts, sorry. Hope you can find other ways to do something funny!
Maybe you should remove the part in @/omtl that says “this should not be used in general topics”
This causes confusion for new members because they never had seen a general topic before
Thanks for pointing that out! We should probably tweak that description a little bit.