Disciplinary - Kirito_Blade

Summary:

Brigading and vote manipulation

Disciplinary - Kirito_Blade

Queerious 21 Jul 2025 19:23

Noting that Kirito_Blade (account age 1786 days, site membership 1345 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.

Re: Disciplinary - Kirito_Blade

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 - Kirito_Blade

Aftokrator 25 Jul 2025 21:34

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

Kirito_Blade was a member of the EN Wiki for 1345 days prior to their ban. The user has voted on a total of 4 pages on EN, compared to 159 votes on CN.

For engagement on the EN wiki, the user has left 2 comments in the past few days, with earlier engagement dating to 2023, consisting of:

On SCP-268-J:

> Aw fuck.

> OH FUCK.

top1 -js in Jul

actually this page was translated to cn without a second)
and most important, the translation is great so almost everyone in cn love this scp
----
btw the translator is [[*user TomJens]]

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