Disciplinary - Atlanticocean, Badbehavior, InflatableJow, Ivebeencrushed, Johnnybaobo, etc.

Summary:

Vote brigading, potential sockpuppeting

Disciplinary - Atlanticocean, Badbehavior, InflatableJow, Ivebeencrushed, Johnnybaobo, etc.

Zyn 02 Apr 2022 06:26

Noting that it was brought to staff attention that a recent coldposted article: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6850 with numerous signs of being unfinished (title improperly formatted, tabview with default tab listings, one tab containing solely pictures separate from the main article) received many upvotes in a quick span of time.

The author is Dark Sabbatical. Accounts involved, with their account creation dates noted, are:

Dark Sabbatical - 2 Feb 2022, 02:19 (58 days ago)

Hungryapple - 28 Feb 2022, 14:20 (32 days ago)

RegalRandy - 1 Mar 2022, 23:37 (31 days ago)

Flaminprincess - 7 Mar 2022, 04:05 (25 days ago)
JeremyJones - 7 Mar 2022, 19:56 (25 days ago)

Socialdistancing - 21 Mar 2022, 10:03 (11 days ago)
ItwasSaid - 21 Mar 2022, 10:34 (11 days ago)

Thelostman - 24 Mar 2022, 22:28 (8 days ago)

Atlanticocean - 27 Mar 2022, 19:26 (5 days ago)
Badbehavior - 27 Mar 2022, 19:15 (5 days ago)
InflatableJow - 27 Mar 2022, 18:50 (5 days ago)
Ivebeencrushed - 27 Mar 2022, 19:36 (5 days ago)
Johnnybaobo - 27 Mar 2022, 19:04 (5 days ago)
MeisFloyd - 27 Mar 2022, 18:57 (5 days ago)
Sarah86 - 27 Mar 2022, 19:09 (5 days ago)
Wrestling - 27 Mar 2022, 19:31 (5 days ago)

Last edited on 02 Apr 2022 06:30 by Zyn Show more

Re: Disciplinary - Atlanticocean, Badbehavior, InflatableJow, Ivebeencrushed, Johnnybaobo, etc.

Jacob Conwell 02 Apr 2022 12:47

This is about as blatant and obvious as you can get in the business of malicious voting/brigading without having a neon sign advertising what you are doing.

I'd recommend a perma for the main and socks.

Re: Disciplinary - Atlanticocean, Badbehavior, InflatableJow, Ivebeencrushed, Johnnybaobo, etc.

Dexanote 03 Apr 2022 19:11

I support a perma for the main and socks, this is obvious sockpuppeting and vote brigading

Re: Disciplinary - Atlanticocean, Badbehavior, InflatableJow, Ivebeencrushed, Johnnybaobo, etc.

Rounderhouse 02 Apr 2022 06:35

RegalRandy, who also upvoted, is the owner of this personal site, created on March 4th, 2022. No real content to speak of beyond the generic pages Wikidot automatically creates. No other edits or forum posts.

Hungryapple, who also upvoted, is a member of Sandbox 3 but without any edits or pages. No forum posts on the mainsite.

The remainder of the accounts have no forum posts, edits, or any other contributions to any site.

Re: Disciplinary - Atlanticocean, Badbehavior, InflatableJow, Ivebeencrushed, Johnnybaobo, etc.

DrEverettMann 02 Apr 2022 15:40

Yeah, this is pretty damned blatant.

Re: Disciplinary - Atlanticocean, Badbehavior, InflatableJow, Ivebeencrushed, Johnnybaobo, etc.

stormfallen 02 Apr 2022 21:39

(Obligatory not-Disc)

Noting that the author has responded to commenters who notices the suspicious upvotes: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-14590532/scp-6850#post-5250087

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Some conspiracy actually. I posted this story a month ago and straight after post it imitatily had -5. It got down voted from there. When I am watching tiktok I am allot less likely to like a video if it has little likes. Even if I liked the video. So I supposed that the imitate -5 no one was going to like it. So I revised the story and posted in a Facebook group asking people if it was a good story. They said they liked it and I asked them to join here and upvote it if they do. They did but they must have just did it because they felt bad for me or something. It's discouraging to find out that they had barly any activity because that shows me that they just did it because they felt bad. The whole story is symbolic to my life and hardships. Everything is a symbol. It's linked to how I've been invisible and left out my whole life. So it hurt to get rejected so fast. Like if I could have just one peace of me to be known, then I could be content staying invisible. I've tried that for years on the internet only to always have it rejected. The internet advertised this site as a place anyone could post and the world would see. But it seems my curse is to strong, or I just didn't write the story good? What is the part of the story that made you all decide to nagitive mark it? Was it the whole thing? Could you tell it was symbolic? Was it how it was written? Or was it the story line itself?

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Yes, I wanted them to read it and support it based off of if they thought it was good. Plus that was with the thought if they already had accounts. It's a group with 1000 or so people. The group is a support group for people who struggle with being unnoticed. I've been talking about it for a month now in the group because I thought it got rejected because it had my energy. From your advice it looks like most of the issues is I didn't capture the cold spirit of the foundation. Which I will go through the list you gave me and update it on my sandbox. I did post in that group when it was posted so if any of them made their account just to support me then they could have upvoted at that time. I should go through and look at every upvote account and see if they share names with people in the group. Because I do want to know genuinely who likes it. Otherwise I don't know for sure if they did or not. I posted and went to bed. Woke up with a -11 and didn't realize I had any upvotes until I seen this post. So next time I won't post about it in that group.
Also what my goal is for the world seeing my story is some time after I posted I find out those creaters who animate the stories would do my story. Then I come across it knowing my story is told without the connection to me. I believe that those animators use this site, but I guess I don't know for sure. Also what are the rules on reposting the story after its updated? I can't remember if there was anything talking about it. Should I wait another month?

Roufhous I just seen your first feedback. I will apply all of it to the story and it is much appreciated. You all can delete the story now without voting if you want. I dont feel like the upvotes from my group are not genuine and I will repost with updates accordingly to all advice I get here. I won't tell the group about the repost. I don't want pitty votes.

Last edited on 03 Apr 2022 01:25 by stormfallen Show more

Re: Disciplinary - Atlanticocean, Badbehavior, InflatableJow, Ivebeencrushed, Johnnybaobo, etc.

Zyn 03 Apr 2022 04:12

Noting that the user sent me an unsolicited PM (ETA: of note, I received a message from another user who downvoted the page stating that they received the same PM):

Hello, a user gave me some critiques of why my story got down voted. So I've updated it and going to message the down voters to see if they have time to go reread it and if they have any critiques as well. To try to get the votes back.

I responded:

It was brought to staff attention that your chat hostmask matches that of another username of a separate account that also upvoted your article. Can you explain this?

Thank you to chatstaff for notifying us of the identical hostmasks.

Noting that I received a response:

I am not sure what a hostmask is, but I did mess up by posting in a support group about posting in this group. The whole story is I posted my article about a month ago and 5 minutes after post I imitatly got 5 down votes. The next day there was to many downvotes and it got deleted. I took it hard because the story is all symbolic to my life. All of my hardship of going unnoticed my whole life. So I thought it was rejection again. Because my energy was in the story. So I vented to my sister's and roommates and an online support group. I've been asking them all if they had accounts on here to come check out my story next time I repost it. So I spent a month revising it, Then reposted it last night. Posted in the group I am in that it's posted and left a link. Sent a link to sisters and roommates. And what ended up in happing is some made accounts just to like it to support me. 3 of the upvoted account I have identified from those people. Sarah Johnny and randy. They used there real names in there accounts. So that is my bad. You can delete the article right now if you want. I don't want the pitty votes. If I ever post again I won't tell that group. I don't know if I will though, might have to look for that closure somewhere else. It's harder to post stories here then the internet made it sound.

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Yes, we have a house tablet and helped the roommates make accounts, they seemed to lost interest in trying to post stories. Mostly they don't like reading. They have adhd pretty bad. We kinda fail as a group allot whenever we try to make internet content together. Like youtube or tictok. They dream but cant stay on track. Now that I slept I am feeling better and just want to scrap the whole idea. People suggesting have helped with making symbolic stories. It sounds like people don't like this particular story because it's to similar to 100s before. Which I did that on purpose because I thought that was what you had to do. Actually I probably won't do the symbolic story right away. I tend to get my feeling hurt if it gets rejected 😆. So perhaps I will practice with less important stories to me lol. Actually I've seemed to get allot of attention from posting on here and I don't think I like it. I might back off for a bit 😆. Thanks for all the help

Last edited on 03 Apr 2022 19:13 by Zyn Show more

Re: Disciplinary - Atlanticocean, Badbehavior, InflatableJow, Ivebeencrushed, Johnnybaobo, etc.

Jacob Conwell 03 Apr 2022 19:49

With the above evidence collected and the support from myself, Dexanote, and DrEverettMann, paired with a dubious explanation of events on the part of Dark Sabbatical, a permanent ban of the main and all sock puppet accounts has been issued.

The following PM was sent as notification:

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Hello,

Per the following thread, it has come to the attention of the SCP Wiki Staff that you have engaged in sockpuppeting and vote brigading of your own article.

http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-14590558/disciplinary-atlanticocean-badbehavior-inflatablejow-ivebeen#post-5251132

As such, this, and all involved accounts have been issued a permanent ban from the SCP Wiki.

You may direct questions to SCP Disciplinary Staff.

Jacob Conwell
SCP Wiki Admin
Disciplinary Team