User blog comment:KidVegeta/Announcing My Next Story/@comment-1932451-20101227020147/@comment-3122168-20101227021524

Sockpuppetry causes a lot of problems. People begin to skew community consesnsus by voting on something with multiple accounts, or agreeing with themselves to make themselves seem right. Furthermore, they can vandalize with one account and still not be blamed on their other account, etc etc. It simply generates problems.