'Objects In Space'
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
PaulJ, that's not who I was thinking of. But I'm reluctant to name names, though, since I'd hate to impugn anyone wrongly.
David is already Hec. That's why he's Knut.
Please excuse me while I expire in a cloud of oldtimerness sautéed in a light oil of obscure injokery.
I love being an esoteric reference.
It's enough proof to ask them about it.
Agreed.
Do we have logs as detailed as that, by the way? In order to be able to find out stuff like that?
If there are two posters who are really the same person, is it logical to assume they must be using two different browsers on the same computer? Because of the cookies, they couldn't use the same browser.
I doubt that they're the same person.
Here's an interesting thing, though. The "Tim Minaer" who tried to register yesterday, has an e-mail address from the same domain (an ISP in Ohio) as our friend. There's a nice little coincidence.
We do have IP addresses in the logs, but it'll take a bit of sifting and detective effort, and isn't anything I can do from work.
t OT ...how can I tell what my registration number is? For I was most endeared by the Chibi!Lizard dialogue t'other day, but it made me go 'huh?' too. And now I'm curious.
t /Technopillock
Point your cursor at your name in one of your posts. The ID will be in the URL.
All I ever meant to say was "two posters who have the same IP address" isn't quite enough proof.
I don't think it is either.
It's enough proof to ask them about it. In your example, you guys work for the same company. And know each other. It's not random.
All I know about this is the Bronze Beta shows the exact same IP address for me and for one of the misspelling champions of the world, that is angry that Tara died in season 6. Luckily I'm the one that noticed it and drew attention to it. Also, I'd posted there long enough that people knew I wasn't playing a game. I would have felt very badly if people had thought I was the other poster. I post from my home. I have no idea how this other person has the same IP number as I do, except that we're both in Massachusetts, probably have the same ISP and it probably has to do with all that stuff that ita and y'all posted up there. t /non-techy blathering
Fay, you're #130.
Fay, just click on your name, then look at the URL for your profile page. Or you can just hover the mouse pointer over your name, and look at the url the browser displays.
Cindy, I suspect the IP address displayed at the Bronze Beta is the IP address your browser thinks you are using. If it starts with 192 or 10, then it's not the real one. Lots of folks behind Internet sharing routers get those addresses.
The logs that ita will check later have the actually IP address of the machine or router where the request originated.