Suspecting People Creating Accounts to Be Rude or Praise Their Own Posts

Hey HollownessDevour​,

Thank you for not posting any account names or examples here. Reporting is absolutely the best way to go about this, but it doesn't always result in an immediate ban. Depending on the situation, we'd much prefer to give people the chance to correct their behavior and continue discussing the games or providing feedback rather than being banned outright. 

This depends on the particular behavior, but in general that means there will be warnings followed by shorter suspensions before getting to an outright ban, so while you may see some of these accounts still around, that doesn't necessarily mean they're not on our radar or nothing has been done.

That said, having multiple accounts is a violation of our forum rules, especially if that's being used to upvote one's own posts or get around a ban or suspension. Rude or hateful posts are also violations regardless of whether it's a person's only account or not.

Multiple Forum Accounts: One forum account is all anyone needs.
Cheating to Rank up: Level up your forum account by participating, not by gaming the system.

 If you believe someone is doing this, you're welcome to report the post itself and provide the general reason for the report. Feel free to include any details about why you think it may be the same account or poster in that report itself, and we'll take a look. 

We won't be able to share results of any reports as we don't give out details on another person's account, but all reports are investigated and we'll make sure the appropriate action is taken if we determine there's a violation. Thanks!