Basically the rule is more detrimental to the community then it not existing.
To help remedy some concern, though I don't aim to alleviate all of it, I will say context always matters to both myself and the SWRP Staff Team. As mad as the habitual line-steppers can get, anyone who's been in a private DM over some really silly stuff with me cannot say we don't seek context with a straight face. The mistaken double react, the accidental self-react, nobody's looking to persecute those situations. You'd likely never even get a warning, or notice by Staff. The SWRP Staff Team has always reserved the right to alter punishments in what it feels is reciprocal and equivocal to the breaking of our community's guidelines. Staff doesn't negotiate these terms, but we try to do our best to make it feel fair for those who wish to stay here after a corrective issue.
There's an easier, more flammable solution. I could just disable reactions by subaccounts. Or we could disable reactions entirely, if they don't actually matter to us. We're not going to do that, though, because that's an actual punishment of the many to resolve the issue of a few. So this rule serves as the warning sign to the few, don't abuse mechanics of the website, or we'll once again prove our consistency in rooting out specific cases of abusive behavior.
Regardless of any one person's opinion, it's content manipulation. You are abusing a mechanic. You are cycling through dozens of inactive subaccounts, which otherwise likely have very few posts and were created on a whim due to how easy it is to perform this function here at Chaos - and you are "boosting" a post. Yes, most cases are harmless, someone just gets love bombed, it's easy to be supportive of that, easy to signal your virtue for that, easy to echo that sentiment with others.
Still content manipulation. Still abusive of this website's freedoms and mechanics. Still spitting in the face of one of the foundational core tenets of this website, that you are one person, that you are not your subaccounts. I've been apart of an environment like that, it will never happen here.
There's no amount of words that can convince me otherwise. Members can unite together to "love bomb" people, it happens all the time, and will still happen all the time. But when it does happen, those members who generate them will know it's not because their buddy sat there and logged in and out of each account to love react - it's because people united together from all corners of the nine realms to raise their hands in one gigantic love spirit bomb.
And none of them were fake af.
