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Earlier today some kind of sock puppetry was spotted in a Teams I'm in.

Shortly afterwards the disruptive behavior stopped, and the involved Teams accounts were gone.

However, this guy got suspended...

community

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    Community's gone rogue, first it comments and removes delete permissions on the comment, and now it's engaging in sock puppetry. What's next, holding bounties ransom? – Davy M Nov 24 '18 at 15:19
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    Finally! I'm fed up with that user approving crap edits. "[N]ot really [being] a person" is no excuse. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. – Robert Columbia Nov 24 '18 at 15:39
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    @RobertColumbia: Community has a badge to prove it's not a robot. – Jongware Nov 24 '18 at 16:54
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    sock puppetry in teams ?? – Jean-François Fabre Nov 25 '18 at 8:23
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    Top 10 Anime Betrayals. – Dair Nov 26 '18 at 2:14
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    first step to skynet? – user13267 Nov 26 '18 at 3:45
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    For your Team, it's a miner issue. – Cœur Nov 26 '18 at 5:05
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    'Keeping a low profile', better luck next time :). – Mixxiphoid Nov 26 '18 at 10:52
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    Really, community? Really? – Pika the Master of the Whales Nov 26 '18 at 17:46
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    Time to snatch away that diamond. – Robert Columbia Nov 26 '18 at 18:26
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    @user13267 If Community does like the rest of us, and makes a StackOverflow Frankenstein of a program, Skynet won't even boot up. – Regular Jo Nov 26 '18 at 21:42
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    Geez, a one year suspension is a bit steep for a first offense! Temporary in the strictest sense, but doesn't really match the expectation of what temporary ought to be. – Zac Faragher Nov 27 '18 at 4:37
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    Last seen Feb 20th ??? – SierraOscar Nov 27 '18 at 15:25
  • Possible url used for suspension of the Community user: stackoverflow.com/c/charcoal/users/message/create/-1 (team admins only) – smileycreations15 Mar 1 '19 at 18:24
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It was me all along!

I meant to answer this earlier, but it slipped my mind.

Since the Charcoal Team is kind of a testing ground for whatever comes to mind, I used it as a testing ground for mod tools, doing the kinds of things that would get Nick Craver yelling at me if I did it on SE proper.

  • No, you can't delete (or destroy) the Community user. Sad face.
  • Yes, you can suspend the Community user. It doesn't... yet... appear to have any adverse effects.
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    Sometimes, science can be evil. This is just hilarious. – Makoto Nov 27 '18 at 23:21
  • The last time it was evil, was when it gave E = mc2. – Farhan Shirgill Ansari Nov 28 '18 at 13:03
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More on point, it's been SE policy for a while now that users that have been Suspended in the past year are ineligible to become moderators anywhere on the network. Does that mean that it's time to take that ♦ from Community and keep it away for at least a year?

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