Following the appeal, disciplinary reviewed their voting activity, and compared it to the claims in the appeal. We determined that their behavior still did not constitute good faith engagement. AriadnesThread, Queerious, Kufat, Nico and Bleep voted to deny the appeal.

As such, their ban appeal has been denied. The user has been PMed, and will be able to rejoin the Wiki at the conclusion of their original ban.

cqhsama was a member of the EN Wiki for 346 days prior to their ban. The user has voted on a total of 6 pages on EN, compared to 1777 votes on CN.

For engagement on the EN wiki, since joining, the user has only left 2 comments, consisting of:

On SCP-268-J

May be the url should be 286j ?

On SCP-8488 (User did not vote on this page)

😭great job

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

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.

cqhsama

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.