Quoting Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com:
Joshua Zelinsky wrote:
Quoting Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com:
Ec wrote:
If there is nothing offensive from the new account there should be no need to check it,
Right. It seems to me that in this sort of case, aggressively rooting out the "benign" sockpuppets would require an abuse of the tools. Aren't you supposed to have probable cause before using Checkuser on an account?
Except people do. ... The socks always edit the same topics pushing the same things.
Okay. Then that isn't the "nothing offensive from the new account" case that Ec and I were talking about.
Ok, question: Do you have an example of a new sock where nothing offensive occurred from the sock and people picked out the sock for blocking? (I'm not counting cases where the sock was picked up by an inadvertent checkuser or anything similar).