Up to a point. As Consumer said, over the longer term it's usually other factors than simple IP checks that catch people out when using alts. MSB & head_funk almost never fail IP checks but generally out themselves sooner or later
That's a very modest assessment of the situation, i reckon.
There are a couple of notable moderators who have developed such a knack for identifying prolific alt creators - from
ridiculously subtle cues - often linguistic, or, y'know - some other personality quirk....but jesus - not to blow smoke up yer arse shambles, but at times, your ability to positively ID alt-trolls is mind-blowing.
That fascistic "mr smokes blunts" character - people had been trying to sus out who that bastard was for months - you seemed to just happen to take a glance at a thread discussing him, and
BAM - he's sent packing; back joylessly jerking-off on his jackboots in whatever part of the world unfortunate enough to have a hate-head such as he habituating there.
As soon as you saw him - you knew with absolute certainty who it was; all the other mods, smods and admins of the time were at a loss - but shambles has an amazing gift for spotting 'em.
Now - lots of these alts make it obvious as fuck - drop hints and generally make no effort to conceal their alt-itude; typical attention seeking behaviours....
but there have been a couple of cases where i think shambles' demonstrated some knack for recognising patterns in online personas indicate that he ought to be working for some draconian spy agency, solving mysteries, tracking down fugitive war criminals and shit like that.
But fuck that - shambles works for
our fuckin' draconian spy agency (some top-secret harm-reduction focused spy group existing solely to let drug pigs communicate with other drug pigs, without getting hassled, harassed or harangued by the likes of that hopelessly horrible, humourless holocaust-humping hate whore who once used the handle "mr smokes blunts".
Not that it was political - far from it; just some arsehole troll propagating nazi bullshit on bluelight - without even being polite about it.
Goddamn gifted guy, our Shambles
