Quote: (Originally Posted by
EBT)
Just a quick reminder folks, sock puppets are against the terms of service. Next time we have to ban one, we will also be banning EVERY other account that has used that IP.
I believe its called 'harsh but fair'.
IMHO it´s called ´harsh but technically not completely warranted´
Some reasons the IP may sometimes be misleading include:
- Using ADSL (with my provider) one gets a new IP every couple of hours. The range is limited, therefore another, legit user will get my current IP at a certain time.
- Sitting in my company due to NAT I share something like 100 outside IPs with 100k colleagues, necessarily there will be occasional two legit Rebreather World users per one IP.
- Shared computers e.g. in Internetcafés at popular divesites, diveclubs etc. will even share the cookies, browser-signature and so on
- Tor and other useful anonymizers would disguise the puppeteer while the IP of the last hop could lead to the machine of another, legit Rebreather World user.
There are more.
Working occasionally as computer forensic expert with the local police and court, quite a large part of my work is to prevent people jumping to conclusions from IP-addresses and other network-generated traces....
Nonetheless I believe that our worthy moderators
do know how to tell Kermit apart from
Jim Henson (or Ms. Piggy)
and would like to thank you all for running this very informative board.