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Don't use it for astro-turfing, sockpuppeting, or trolling, or to circumvent bans and suspensions, and you should be good.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
Wonder why you want an additional account.
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Usually, additional accounts are made for the following general (legit) reasons:
- The user is participating in forum games or forum RP and wants a second identity for those games.
- The user has an invalid handle and wants to change it.
- The user is dissatisfied with associations made with their current handle and want to "reinvent" themselves, so to speak.
What they said.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
Note that our concerns arise when:
- There is an unresolved suspension on the first handle — this is called ban evasion and will get all accounts owned by that person permanently banned.
- The additional handle(s) are made for the purpose of astroturfing a discussion: making it seem as if there are more people agreeing with (or voting on) something than there really are.
- The additional handle(s) are used to vandalize articles or attack other tropers, shielding the main handle from repercussions (or so they think).
- The additional handle(s) are used to disguise the fact that a person is pimping an article about a work that they are the author of.
And so on.
Edited by Fighteer "It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
'Wonder why you want an additional account. "
The main reason is I don't like my username anymore.
Sorry it had a error and double posted my comment.
Edited by Everdream
That is a valid reason to make another account, so you get the okay. Just make sure you don't use the account you're using now once the second one's created.
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One more question, if I want to create a secondary account for roleplaying a character in Forum Game, do I need to create a Troper Page and specify that I'm the one who created the aforementioned roleplay account?
There is no requirement to do so, but it'd certainly be polite to tell the other users (or at least the GM) what you're doing.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
I'm wondering if it's okay if I make a second account?