I've only found other mods could interfere with this mod; but I am not sure which ones. I did see that the "only post images/links after XXX posts" could interfere with it.

yup - sorry for the long delay on this - but that's what caused it!

I might finally have reason to upgrade from 2.x to 3.x. The "who this user might be hack" on 2.x was a life saver when detecting trolls. While this is not the same hack it will help.

cool hack thanks

Works on 3.6.7?

Thanks

Its working for me

Great hack - it's already nailed a few members. A couple of spammers, and a couple of members who had multiple accounts.

Questions: Since I may have to confront some people that they are in violation of the rules (having more than one account, BSing me, etc.) how can I prove this? Where exactly is the evidence stored? If I'm going to bust someone on this, I have to be 110% sure.

Also, the AE detector indicated that one user has three accounts, but they've been posting with different IP addresses (same country though). Is this like one guy using different dial-up/DSL connections from the same computer?

That's what I've always assumed (like using an AOL account to connect, and a Comcast account to connect, but on the same computer/browser). If this is wrong I'd like to know too.

Probably dialup or some AOL proxy account; cookies are computer specific and do not take IP addresses into account.

But if cookies are cleared when the user logs off and then logs on, how does this plugin detect the user having multiple accounts? This is what I need to know. Thanks!