*drinks a lantern mouse-flavored neuron fly milkshake*
important announcement:
if you own @momothecat, @wasteof-geographic, or @evil-kiwi then please tell me
if you don’t, repost this post
edit: @cheesewhisk3rs is @evil-kiwi
comments
Who, me? I don't have any alternative accounts. In fact, I have experience in a community that had a problem with alts, in which I devised two separate methods for identifying people. That same community also had a few members who liked to perpetrate ARGs, which may be the reason why I suffer no fools gladly. Needless to say, I'm not running any alts.
What were the method?
1. identifying people by their IP address on an IRC channel, and 2. identifying people by their user agent through a website protocol that secretly recorded the user agents of users.
Oh, well neither is possible on Wasteof unless you're an admin. If the admins did do that tho, that would be pretty bad and spoil any mysteries
The admins do have access to users’ IP addresses. I recall a conversation in which Jeffalo asked Ratio (rest in peace) if they were Skylar’s alt, saying “I'm not an idiot” and asking why they were connected from the same network when they denied.
Bottom line, they do have access to that information. I'm divided on whether or not they should expose alts outside of emergencies, though.
Honestly, I don’t think there’s much of a reason. There’s no emergency here, and honestly I think it’s a fun “mystery”