Or you know you could take the opportunity to stay out of it for once as you fine well know your the main reason Marty disrusts mods here and with good reason imo.
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Jman aināt going to give you or anyone on the other side any satisfaction of any kind, same as wookie popping in to make yiur blood rise just by posting and quoting your posts.
They aināt interested in resolving anything Martyā¦ Imo.
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I have done zero IP checks and would never share poster info acquired as mod with another poster.
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I refresh this site 10+ times a day and read all the bullshit. I donāt see why someone who effectively leeches entertainment/information from this community should be given a vote in almost anything. Leave the votes to the contributors who make this whole thing what it is. I voted a few times before but I donāt think I will in the future unless I become an active contributor.
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I checked Readās IP for the same reason I checked QRomo, ArizonaRonFromTucson, and brooktroutās IPs: to determine whether they were valid posters or not. I went out of my way to only confirm that those posters were legitimate to avoid any kind of finger pointing at posters voting twice for whatever reason.
I outed you as Read because the thread had suddenly become focused on jman voting twice in the poll and it was clear that the arguing wasnāt actually about people voting multiple times, it was just another angle to grind old axes.
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How reliable do you think the IP checks are if someoneās using a paid for VPN?
Itās really easy to see that someoneās using a paid VPN, and itās pretty rare that someone does unless theyāre specifically trying to cover up actions they know to be malicious.
Counterpoint: the people who post here all day are weirdos and they should not be listened to.
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I doubt this is true for all VPNs. Itās trivially easy for people abroad to access restricted content from another country that breaches a commercial companyās T&C, for instance.
Are you saying that Unstuck has better IP detection than multi-billion dollar companies?
IP checks arenāt a magic bullet that will let us 100% confirm that posters are individuals but they do a good enough job considering none of this really matters.
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No, Iām not saying that.
OK, so this was guff. Fine.
No, itās not. Youāre also leaving out the bit where big corporations may just not care if someone is using a VPN.
They care quite a bit if allowing people to make financial transactions from proscribed countries is against their operatorās licence.
Seems they donāt care all that much if any chump can google āhow to vpnā and circumvent the elaborate operation you imagine they have.
Thereās not much they can do about it. Thatās the point.
People can and do circumvent those companiesā IP sniffing using the same methods that youāre claiming you can detect on Unstuck.
It sounds far fetched but maybe, just maybe, youāre not aware of all the VPNs in use here?
I donāt see the harm in it.
What was your 2p2 account?
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I think mods should be free to do an IP check to find out and announce the results.
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