Dazwarier

**Dazwarier** is a wikiHow user who joined wikiHow on the 4th of September, 2019. The user is known for recieving multiple blocks and creating sockpuppet accounts on a scale never seen before. He was blocked in Late October 2019 for the first time, and again in December that year, the latter of which started the First Sockpuppet War which would go on to last for the next 1 year before the creation of AmongUsIsC00l, which would go undetected for 3 years, garnering 800 contributations and the welcomer role in the process. The banning of which is generally believed to have started the Second Sockpuppet War, which is currently underway which about 20 accounts already created in the first 2 weeks.

## Information

### Reason for block

Bad Faith Edits, Edit Warring, Standing up against abusive admins

### Known for

Starting the First and Second Mass Sockpuppet Wars on wikiHow; becoming one of the first users to create lots of socks, with one even gaining welcomer status

### Also known as

Pennywise2, AmongUsIsC00l, George Puscas, 70 other sockpuppet accounts.

On the 4th of September, Dazwarier registered to wikiHow, editing the now deleted Use Classic Shell article. While it was started by an anon, it is generally believed that Dazwarier was the one who started it, given the fact that it would be created again multiple times in the future.

Dazwarier was known for having a short temper, with the nail in the coffin being NFD tagging Byankno1 Article in retaliation for his own being NFD tagged. This would result in being reported to the Administrator Notice Board by R2 d2000. The user would be blocked by Loiswade42 in late october. Dazwarier would return a month later and immediately added a Blocked template to Lois's Talk page. This would get him an infinite ban and this event is credited for started the First Sockpuppet War.

## First Sockpuppet War (December 2019-January 2021)

After being blocked, Dazwarier created Mac OS X User 10.11, which started a trend of sockpuppets having Operating System names in them. This account would be blocked quite quickly and daz moved on to WindowsXPM Fan, IPhone User, MicrosoftWindows10, WindowsXPM User, IHATELOISWADE42, Dazwarier is shit, Dazwarier MKII, wikiHow Account Saver, Troll Account12345677612356712e4, Dazmiles, Dazwaruer, DazGaz, Gazwarier, MicrosoftNerd, SockpuppetAccount10 and closing of 2019 with Herobrine123, which would start a trend of self reporting to the ANB promising to "quit forever", likely to throw the administrators off. This wasn't the end, and starting 2020, Liveboke was created. It wouldn't last long, like most sockpuppets from this era. This user was one of the first do deviate from having an operating system or gaming character in its name, as daz became to catch on to how he was being caught. This user also pionered the VPN techniche, which by using would bypass IP blocks and would allow accounts to be created on a much larger scale. Other the next few weeks, several accounts would be created until George Puscas was created. This account lasted nearly a month and at the time was the longest lasting account. The nail in the coffin was being "excited" by "Ashley11" returning through the Ashley11 2.0 account, which turned out to be completely unrelated to the original and began the trend of imperonsating other notable users. The accounts continued until Pennywise1 was registered. This account was swiftly blocked for being a daz sock, but the next account, known to be ran by the same person, Pennywise2 would last 2 months, which took the crown for longest lasting sockpuppet. The accounts stagnated until AmongUsIsC00l was registered in January 2021, which wouldn't be identifed as a daz sock for 3 years and is generally credited with ending the First Sockpuppet War.

## Inter-war period (January 2021-January 2024)

After AmongUsIsC00l was registered, Dazwarier had not been seen on the site for 6 months, or so the admins though, as Life of Luxury Parker operated sparingly through the latter stages of the first war, but wouldn't be identified for another 3 years. AmongUsIsC00l wrote the first Among Us article on the site, How to Play Among Us, which would become a featured article. Over the next 3 years, AmongUsIsC00l would become an estabilished part of the community, gaining welcome wagon rights in may 2022. However, the nail in the coffin came near the end of 2023. Dazwarier was experimenting with returning to sockpuppetry when he forgot to use the VPN. This caught the attention of JayneG and the AmongUsIsC00l account was no more. This started the 2nd sockpuppet war...

## Second Sockpuppet war (January 2024-present)

The blocking of AmongUsIsC00l sent shockwaves through wikiHow. How could Dazwarier have hidden on a known account for 3 years? This event started the second sockpuppet war. 4 years after the first begun, wikiHow was at war yet again. So far, many accounts have been created, and all of them blocked and most of them closed. A new practice, which has been shown to make it easier to create new accounts, as this essentially clears the autoblock from the database. The war is expected to last until Dazwarier creates a new AmongUsIsC00l account and will likely last even longer than the last.