On 4/16/05, Theo Clarke <wiki(a)tignosis.com> wrote:
Whatever the normal operating procedure might be, and
I confess I had forgotten that only >developers can see the IP addresses of registered
users) accusations of sockpuppetry are >likely to offend the accused. We should be wary
of making such accusations and we should >refrain from making them on 'public'
pages without first posting to the user's talk page.
There is no reason why someone's first edit should be to VFD. 9 times
out of 10 they turn out to be a sock pupet. VFD has ended up with it's
methods and procedures through long experimentation. A low level
attack from a single forum is not a reason to change them.
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geni