[WikiEN-l] Assume bad faith, for banned users.

Skyring skyring at gmail.com
Wed Nov 21 02:12:22 UTC 2007


On Nov 21, 2007 4:38 AM, Ron Ritzman <ritzman at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11/20/07, Skyring <skyring at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Some admins have the uncanny ability to smell out and ban a sock without
> > benefit of CheckUser.
>
> Yes, it's called the "duck test" and it works when said socks go back
> to doing the same things that got them banned in the first place.
> Don't do those things and nobody has any reason to suspect you of
> being a sock.
>
>
I was actually thinking of a couple of cases where innocent editors were
permanently banned for apparently being my socks.

But of course, admins are never fallible, and my cunning and forethought
knew no bounds.

-- 
Peter in Canberra


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