Now in Iruka’s case she spent several years bouncing from one account to another. I’d catch her using fan art in wallpapers or posting fan art without properly crediting the original artist or the reference that she used. She would also comment and vote for her own work with the other accounts. Each individual account on its own wasn’t that big of a deal, it was their actions as a whole that were a problem. Since she’d run every time I busted her, it indicated a member unwilling to drop their antics and come clean.

So when we discovered that she was back on the site and doing the same thing, only this time she had over a hundred accounts subbed to herself as well, we decided to give her the chance to come clean and leave that behind for good. The terms were simple, go through and delete your dummy accounts and we’ll let you stay. Otherwise, we would have started using the better tools at our disposal to remove her from the site for good.

To her credit, she did as requested. Iruka went through and deleted well over a hundred accounts save for one that I approved since it was used for keeping track of buttons and coding that she used. Having more than one account isn’t a big deal when it’s only one. So I was fine with that. I kept an eye on her and left it at that.