Disciplinary - rovong

Summary:

Brigading and vote manipulation

Disciplinary - rovong

Queerious 21 Jul 2025 17:44

Noting that Rovong (account age 229 days, site membership 200 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 19:34 by Queerious Show more

Re: Disciplinary - rovong

Rounderhouse 22 Jul 2025 01:22

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 - rovong

AriadnesThread 23 Jul 2025 20:49

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

Rovong was a member of the EN Wiki for 200 days prior to their ban. The user has voted on a total of 19 pages on EN in that time, compared to 210 votes on CN with extensive commenting activity exclusively on CN.

For engagement on the EN wiki, the user has left 2 recent comments, consisting of:

On SCP-268-J

totally agree，and……why there're so many cn members holding party?(

On The Emperor of Many Voices

I like this piece,and I had it translated,into CN.

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

Last edited on 23 Jul 2025 21:55 by Queerious Show more