[WikiEN-l] A modest proposal

[Casey Brown]

The event you mentioned in paranthesis is actually pretty common and is
probably what would have created that problem.

On 8/13/07, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
>
> On 8/13/07, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 8/13/07, NavouWiki <navouwiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Consider this scenario:
> > >
> > > An editor creates a sockpuppet account to have discussion on a hot
> topic.
> > > The editor does not want this discussion associated with the main
> account.
> > > Checkusers are run, and the two accounts are reconciled.
> > >
> > > Please don't misunderstand me, I'm not implying this occurs, it is a
> > > plausible scenario.
> >
> > That's a valid reason to want to create a second account, and a
> > scenario under which it might accidentally be exposed.
> >
> > However, the policy is that CU data should not be used or released
> > unless there's some sort of abuse by the account.
> >
> > If an editor creates a sock for a particular discussion, and doesn't
> > behave abusively during that discussion, even a positive ID between
> > the editor and the sock by an unrelated CU should result in data which
> > the CU user shouldn't use anywhere.
> >
> OK, but how is that even possible.  If neither the main account nor
> the sockpuppet are breaking policy, then a CU wouldn't reveal a
> correlation in the first place.  (I guess it's possible if a
> completely different user happened to have used the same IP address,
> but otherwise?)
>
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