On 4/16/05, Theo Clarke wiki@tignosis.com wrote:
Whatever the normal operating procedure might be, and I confess I had forgotten that only >developers can see the IP addresses of registered users) accusations of sockpuppetry are >likely to offend the accused. We should be wary of making such accusations and we should >refrain from making them on 'public' pages without first posting to the user's talk page.
There is no reason why someone's first edit should be to VFD. 9 times out of 10 they turn out to be a sock pupet. VFD has ended up with it's methods and procedures through long experimentation. A low level attack from a single forum is not a reason to change them.