On 8/13/07, George Herbert <george.herbert(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 8/13/07, NavouWiki <navouwiki(a)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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