A sock puppet is when you’ve created a secondary avatar to interact with yourself secretly. That’s not what I’m doing…

I’ve needed to open a second account, because when the first one was banned I have no ability to message moderators or appeal anything. It forces you to create another account. I would not think to email someone based on a message board. I’d PM them, and will now.

I’m not sure what a “temp ban” is. My first account was “permanently banned” as far as I can tell (with no messages, no warnings, no temp bans). I would just use that one to make an appeal to a mod if I could log in…