"==Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Rob.HUN/Archive== 
 No sanction on the sock master?    
 :No. Blocks are meant to be preventative, not punitive. Since it was June 23 already and the socking occurred most recently on June 11, the standard one-week block that should have been levied on the master would have already expired.      ♠  
 ::Punitive my arse! No socking record? Fuck all response for dishonest editing. What a waste of my time.    
 :::The record is the SPI itself.      ♠  
 ::::No. A record would be a sanction on the sock master.    
 :::::What benefit is there? How would a 1-week block now prevent any disruption from him?      ♠  
 ::::::It would be recorded in their block log. They would be on warning not to sock again. Is this really how we now address sock puppetry?     
 :::::::It's far from ideal, but it's a logical consequence of a backlog. When it takes this long to deal with the case, the closing admin gets left with a bad choice: let the bad behaviour appear to have no consequences, or put a block in place that it's hard to describe as preventative. A reasonable compromise might be to put a one minute block on the account with a pointer to the SPI in order to make sure that future admins are aware of this if there's a recurrence of any kind of disruption.—  
 ::::::::I suppose that's not a bad idea.      ♠  
 :::::::::Thank you. And perhaps forgive the expression of exasperation above?    
 ::::::::::All is forgiven.      ♠  

 ==Two more socks== 
 I've got two innocent-sounding unblock requests from  and , both tagged and blocked as socks of  as per Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Morning277/Archive. The trick is that I can't find either name on that SPI. Is there a different archive I might check? Or should I leave these for another checkuser to confirm? Thanks.    ~    
 :Having a CU look at it would be a good idea.      ♠  

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