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> Also, while voting fraud is against the guidelines and actively countered, creating sock puppet accounts is not.

You're right. For anyone interested here is the relevant post: http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/57682/297429




Doesn't that say that "Answering your own questions with the other account(s)" is one of the things that a sock puppet account should not be used for?


Yes, but the parent comment said "creating sock puppet accounts", which is okay because there might be legitimate uses.




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