On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
That would be odd. And how does creating a temp account give away one's IP to a local bureaucrat? If there are checkusers on any project that are sharing private data, that's another matter.
When I was going through all the SUL unification nonsense, I found it particularly valuable to have a second global account with an obscure and unique name, precisely for this reason. I had the second account precisely because of a naming conflict I had on a few projects, but I also used it as a bot account and for tests. There are plenty of benefits to keeping a secondary account around.
--Andrew Whitworth