QUOTE(Peter Damian @ Fri 11th September 2009, 3:20am)
Abusive socking in my book is when
1. You vote twice in an election, which is easily done, but which I have never done.
2. You appear twice in the same thread under a different guise, appearing to give stronger support for a view than actually exists. I have never done this either.
I guess it depends on your definitions. To me, socking to deliberately cause drama is abusive. It's not the same KIND of abuse as, say, socking to revert war, or vote stack, or out people, or any of a host of other prattish behaviors, but if [[WP:POINT]] is involved, it's abuse. To some extent anyway.
YMMV... I guess we have different books, and mine's bigger.
But I
repeat myselfQUOTE(Peter Damian @ Fri 11th September 2009, 3:20am)
Do I cause drama? In this case, it was a single action, nominating a poorly sourced article for deletion. The rest is history.
The number of actions needed is a metric of your efficiency, and sparking off that much drama with a single action certainly is highly efficient, yes.
But that's not your most direct drama-induction ... THAT would be when you go "look look, I'm socking here when I add good content, I INSIST you block me now" ... have you sworn that off for good?