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:::You also claim that the only cases where alternative accounts are necessary is administrator tests. This ignores bots and the proposed example of password resets, the former of which definitely applies on this wiki (not a major criticism of your argument, but additional examples to consider). [[User:Mr. Anon|<font color="grey">'''Mr. '''</font><font color="midnightblue">'''Anon'''</font>]][[File:Anon.png|23px|link=Special:Random]][[User talk:Mr. Anon|''<span style="color: black;">talk</span>'']]  15:39, 28 October 2012 (EDT)
:::You also claim that the only cases where alternative accounts are necessary is administrator tests. This ignores bots and the proposed example of password resets, the former of which definitely applies on this wiki (not a major criticism of your argument, but additional examples to consider). [[User:Mr. Anon|<font color="grey">'''Mr. '''</font><font color="midnightblue">'''Anon'''</font>]][[File:Anon.png|23px|link=Special:Random]][[User talk:Mr. Anon|''<span style="color: black;">talk</span>'']]  15:39, 28 October 2012 (EDT)
::::I hate to break it to you but admins don’t really handle sensitive information.  The worst we deal with is people putting racist crap into pages that we delete.
::::No, it’s not.  Your signature and username is your constant ID.  If you have a variable IP then obviously your Up doesn’t have a 1-to-1 correlation with your identity, which is precisely ‘’why’’ we use usernames and accounts.  In general, changing your username doesn’t happen for precisely that reason, but the fact is you can only change your username in your signature.  In the RCs your ID remains the same, so it’s not the same. SW:SIG is meant to make identification constant; this proposal does not do this.
::::They don’t apply because it’s inherently obvious.  You are arbitrarily valuing some things over others; on what basis is “humor” less important than privacy? If even one of these doesn’t apply, your invocation of any of these is invalid. We aren’t Wikipedia, and I think that’s actually written into SmashWiki policy somewhere.
::::The fact stands that there is ‘’’no’’’ reason to apply this caveat.  Why do we even want to let people get second identities? If people are crappy contributors, then they should be held accountable for these.  They can change their perceptions by changing the way they edit.  Giving them a blank slate doesn’t incentivize a change in behavior.  You can say that mods should screen this, but I don’t see why that should be the job of the administration more than it should be the responsibility of a person to improve their behavior if they’ve been a shitty contributor.[[User:Semicolon|Semicolon]] ([[User talk:Semicolon|talk]]) 16:33, 28 October 2012 (EDT)


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