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@inbox.org wrote:
On 8/13/07, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/13/07, NavouWiki navouwiki@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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