Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-24170167-20160317011054

A user has recently joined our wiki named The Glorious Potato, who says she is Artgurl. For those of you who are newer to the wiki, Artgurl is a girl who was a great editor on this wiki - we actually almost made her an admin. However, our wiki was hacked by someone using her computer, and Wikia blocked Artgurl. We later found out that it was actually Artgurl's sister who had done the hacking. So, unfortunately, Artgurl was blocked for a year, even though she actually had done nothing wrong. I admit, when The Glorious Potato first joined, I thought she was Artgurl too - same signature, same profile pic. She said that for her birthday, she had gotten a new computer, so she made a new Wikia account. However, I chat with the REAL Artgurl on Google+ every day, and I she said that this was not true - in fact, she said that her birthday wasn't even until October.

Now, a lot of you have been suggesting that we block The Glorious Potato for being an imposter, but honestly, do you really think that's fair. The rules clearly state that every user deserves two warnings before they are blocked, UNLESS the thing that they have done is SUPER bad. I don't think this is that bad. In fact, The Glorious Potato has been making a ton of great edits on the wiki! They don't swear, they don't vandalize, they really haven't done anything that bad.

Clearly, this person just heard the story of Artgurl and thought it would be funny if they pretended to be Artgurl. Don't worry, I have warned them, and I have told them that if they continue this, they might be blocked. But honestly,'' blocking them right now? ''Don't you think that's a little unfair? They at least deserve two warnings.

So just relax everyone. Remember what happened the last time we all freaked out? Remember what happened the last time we all ran to Wikia with our crazy emails? Last time that happened, an innocent user got blocked.

The situation is completely under control. I suggest you go and give our new user a proper welcome. And be nice! They just thought a little prank would be funny, they don't deserve to be blocked. 