Maddiegate

Maddiegate	Maddiegate
 	
Category 	Controversy
Took Place	2014 - November 2020
Involved 	Jacob, Miss Maddie, TSR CT
Maddiegate was a major duping scandal beginning in 2014 and ending in November 2020 with the banning of Miss Maddie (Jacob). The girl in Maddie's avatar was made using Photoshop. It’s a made up person designed to resemble a woman of university age who could plausibly be playing the game."About bloody time they banned it" - Jacob
== Background Context ==
Back when Jacob's original account was banned in 2014, he created Maddie based on a random Facebook account of a girl found called Maddie and Slenderman based off a friend. After building up posts outside the MHoC, the plan was to join it after the Nigel account was banned. However, Nigel passed the dupe checks and what was originally meant to be a short-term account until Maddie became established, turned out to be a main account.
When Jacob was banned, he initially created dozens of silly dupes that were obvious (Mr E, PHT and Brucy’s Beach) which were meant to be identified as himself, to help portray him as an unskilled duper whilst Maddie and Slenderman snuck in to parties. Slenderman joined Labour and was there for many years, and Maddie joined the Libertarian Party. The accounts were used every election for votes.
== Events of the 32nd Election ==
Jacob used the accounts to rig the election in favour of the Libertarian Party. After the discovery of undisclosed evidence, the CT banned the accounts along with several other accounts Jacob had created to provide votes. Several accounts remain unbanned as over November 2020. The Libertarian Party won five seats.
== Method of Duping ==
Maddie was a weird dupe in that the duping method for her was the same as the duping method for Ruitker. If Ruitker’s failed, they definitely should have detected Maddie earlier given how many dupe checks she had. Furthermore there was one time years ago that Jacob logged in as Maddie without using a VPN but again, this was before several dupe checks. Apart from that, Maddie used a completely different device to any dupes and had a different IP. Furthermore, Maddie successfully managed to petition the CT to ban people calling Maddie a dupe of Jacob so they must have been convinced at one point that Maddie was not Jacob.
Commenting on the ban, Jacob believes the CT checked the Libertarian Party votes, saw a lot used a VPN and banned them, and then saw Maddie used a VPN too and banned her too. There is no other way they would have made the jump given other dupes created in the same way have not been banned.Category:Controversies
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