Talk:Wiki Acts:Anti-Speddos Act/@comment-38268352-20190123003902/@comment-3126873-20190123203102

The nature of the Anti-Speddos act is not one limited strictly to chasing down and blocking IPs with wild abandon, but deals with users who are too impatient to wait out their given block times before resuming fruitless edits. The majority of users who attempt this sort of behavior do not particularly care about the consequences of being caught, while any who go to such lengths to evade pre-existing blocks reveal themselves through obvious behavior. In either case, users of this caliber still find themselves easily blocked.

As I'm sure you've figured out, there do exist ways to bypass a block through sockpuppetry, and this Wiki Act is in place to skip the due process of assuming good faith with a new user given the fact that they are, quite obviously, not a new user. "Sadly", the mentality of a sockpuppet is often the belief that, via a paper-thin disguise and a new persona, they are able to cause more mayhem by re-allowing themselves the grace of an administrative warning before being blocked in the same manner.

The advantageous blocked-user, however, may instead opt for making an account for the purpose of opening a dialogue with the administration, working with them to reduce the ban time of their original account.