Current Events > Why do people make alt accounts on gamefaqs.gamespot.com?

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Is it for those people getting suspended/banned all the time?

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How do we know you're not an alt >_>

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ChrisTaka posted...

How do we know you're not an alt >_>

Well, it's a 13 year old account.

The only other account I made was Roxas_Owns_All to troll the board for a few days. Sora_Owns_All was a frequent poster back then. I didn't pretend to be him, but posted regularly and it confused people, which I found amusing.

Edit: Actually when I was a lot younger I made an account that took the letters of Jabodie and added an x in there smh lol.

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its fun to juggle multiple accounts with multiple gimmicks and posting styles. Sometimes you can kill some time by having arguments among a group of alts and stretch it out over hundreds of posts. Or form a pretend rivalry with yourself over the course of years to generate some drama. Or if you get suspended or banned a lot.

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SH_expert44 posted...

its fun to juggle multiple accounts with multiple gimmicks and posting styles. Sometimes you can kill some time by having arguments among a group of alts and stretch it out over hundreds of posts. Or form a pretend rivalry with yourself over the course of years to generate some drama. Or if you get suspended or banned a lot.

It just seems like a lot of hassle with the login/logouts. And once in a while somebody will accidentally post with the wrong account, which is always embarrassing.

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Jabodie posted...

And once in a while somebody will accidentally post with the wrong account, which is always embarrassing.

All depends on how skilled you are at doing it and how fast you are with the delete button.

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SH_expert44 posted...

All depends on how skilled you are at doing it and how fast you are with the delete button.

Lol fair enough.

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It takes no effort to use an alt

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See?

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Veggeta_EDGE posted...

It takes no effort to use an alt

But I also see little benefit, especially if you're openly an alt like the account you're using. What's the point? Unless you're getting modded all the time and use alts to make posts you know will get modded or something.

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because they have bad parents

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Jabodie posted...

Is it for those people getting suspended/banned all the time?

Yes. Lots of posters here can't take their punishment with grace and need to get another account to bitch about it. Or they just plain don't follow the rules at all, know they aren't, and still need another account to make a thread bitching about their moderation.

Edit: Veggeta needs more accounts so he create more than the allotted threads per account. Him and veggie are the few exceptions to the above.

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You can only make 10 topics per board per 24 hours. I easily make more than 10 topics on CE within 24 hours.

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Sometimes they are fun.
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Veggeta X posted...

You can only make 10 topics per board per 24 hours. I easily make more than 10 topics on CE within 24 hours.

Ah, this makes sense. I'm not such a prolific poster.

thanosibe posted...

Yes. Lots of posters here can't take their punishment with grace and need to get another account to bitch about it. Or they just plain don't follow the rules at all, know they aren't, and still need another account to make a thread bitching about their moderation.

Tbh, I don't understand what's so confusing to people about the moderation system. 99% of the moderations I've received I expected to get while I was writing the post. And they've relaxed a lot over the years. You can post a lot more stuff without getting modded these days than way back when I first started posting.

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What's sadder is people buying old dead accounts.

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spikethedevil posted...

What's sadder is people buying old dead accounts.

Lmao, is that real? How much do they pay?

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Jabodie posted...

Lmao, is that real? How much do they pay?

Don't easily believe everything you hear here.

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At the very least old dead accounts keep springing up.

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Veggeta X posted...

Don't easily believe everything you hear here.

^Says a guy who bought the account he's using.

Veggeta X posted...

Don't easily believe everything you hear here.

Idk man, some posters on CE are kinda nutjobs and have weird circles outside of CE. Even people who pay for Gold.

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Jabodie posted...

Tbh, I don't understand what's so confusing to people about the moderation system. 99% of the moderations I've received I expected to get while I was writing the post. And they've relaxed a lot over the years. You can post a lot more stuff without getting modded these days than way back when I first started posting.

I don't either. In 10 years or whatever I've had this account, I've only had a handful of moderations and all but one I knew I would get a suspension for when I posted it. And the one I didn't expect was because I didn't read the ToU and the moderation was still valid. But a lot of people are way too invested in the CE drama and just can't help themselves.

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