On 20/11/2007, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Admittedly, the banned user may have a congenital disability for playing nice, and he would thus make himself obvious.
FWIW, pretty much all checkuser investigations of such are because someone is doing something obnoxious. When checkuser shows a strong match between two accounts where one is ill-behaved and the other is well-behaved, this is indistinguishable from a bad editor and a good editor sharing a connection; and so the second situation is assumed, i.e. that it is in fact two people.
So: find yourself repeatedly uncovered and reblocked? *Stop doing that then.*
(I'm amazed at first thought on how difficult it is to get this point across. OTOH, as I've noted, the key characteristic of chronically banned users is an inability to behave well.)
I mean, Skyring made himself quite unpopular for a long time, but is now back and contributing okay without grossly offending people or getting himself blocked. So it's hardly impossible.
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