Disciplinary - xkdd

Summary:

Brigading and vote manipulation

Disciplinary - xkdd

Queerious 21 Jul 2025 17:37

Noting that xkdd (account age 2381 days, site membership 8 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.

Last edited on 21 Jul 2025 19:32 by Queerious Show more

Re: Disciplinary - xkdd

Rounderhouse 22 Jul 2025 01:20

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 - xkdd

Queerious 23 Jul 2025 20:25

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

xkdd was a member of the EN Wiki for 8 days prior to their ban. The user has voted on a total of 346 pages on EN, compared to 2433 votes on CN.

Notably, of the 346 votes, 325 were made in a single day, the same day their joined the wiki (July 13, 2025).

For engagement on the EN wiki, for all 325 votes, the only comment left was the following:
On SCP-5002

I like Agatha Christie, I like this

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