On 13/08/07, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On 8/13/07, Casey Brown cbrown1023.ml@gmail.com wrote:
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?)
The event you mentioned in paranthesis is actually pretty common and is probably what would have created that problem.
OK, but barring that event (say the person had a static IP), there's pretty much a consensus that a checkuser who found out such information and never revealed it had broken checkuser policy (but not privacy policy), right?
I suspect it's the sort of thing that would make the other checkers wonder what the hell they thought they were playing at. Do you have a specific example in mind? In real life, carefully-worded theoreticals are much harder to talk about than actual examples.
- d.