Disciplinary - woodenwolf

Re: Disciplinary - woodenwolf

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 20:10:33 +0000

In an effort of transparency, the following context is provided, showing pieces of evidence used by Disciplinary in making our determination:

woodenwolf was a member of the EN Wiki for 256 days prior to their ban. The user has voted on a total of 35 pages on EN, compared to 677 votes on CN.

For engagement on the EN wiki, over the past 7 months (since Jan 2025), the user has only left two comments, consisting of:

On SCP-268-J

> The Foundation is currently attempting to evade paying child support. lol

On SCP-2095

Aegean Sea?Kidding?

The above informed Disciplinary's belief that the user was not engaging with the EN wiki in good faith.

Re: Disciplinary - woodenwolf

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 01:22:34 +0000

Per the site rules:

Brigading: Calling for group downvoting (or group upvoting) of an article is prohibited. Being part of a vote brigade may lead to a ban.
Note: Not every call to check out an article by someone who dislikes it is brigading. Context and intent will determine whether or not an incident is considered brigading.

Due to the inherent difficulties in ascertaining whether someone is privately calling for a brigade, context and circumstances are used in determining whether a brigade has occurred, and staff found that it was unlikely the voting behavior was organic based off the user's previous voting history on EN.

Organized voting behaviour to artificially increase or decrease an article’s score is considered brigading and is grounds for disciplinary actions, up to and including a permaban. Voting on the translation of an article on a different branch, and then coming to EN to mirror that vote en-masse is considered brigading on EN and may result in disciplinary action. The Disciplinary Team would like to make it clear that this position does not change regardless of the site, branch, or users in question, or whether the vote manipulation is in the positive or negative direction. Staff reserves the right to take disciplinary action against users suspected of participating in a brigade with the intent of artificially altering an article's rating.

Re: Disciplinary - woodenwolf

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 21:02:07 +0000

Noting that I received the following reply to the ban notification PM:

You haven't even provided reasonable evidence. There are no pre declared rules or basis.

The most articles in classic con are too boring for me, so I give downvotes and few upvotes. A funny -J is translated to CN so I read it, and then I give it a upvote in EN. All my votes are base the the quality of the articles. I have a clear conscience.

You cannot ignore the exposure impact brought by translated works, and make such absurd accusations. The so-called brigading and vote manipulation are only because more people read it.

Noting that I have followed up to inquire if this was intended as an appeal.

Disciplinary - woodenwolf

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 17:35:47 +0000

Noting that woodenwolf (account age 2319 days, site membership 256 days) was recently issued a ban for brigading and vote manipulation.

Due to the above, staff voted to enact a 3 month long ban based on a pattern of voting and activity across multiple Wikidot sites. Queerious, Stormbreath, Mann, Ari, Rounderhouse and Kufat supporting.

Three-month long ban enacted, PM sent.