@coldjoint,
coldjoint wrote:...
At the bottom of every page there is a "Contact Us" function. I have contacted the moderators 3 times in 3 days. It says they will respond shortly. I have yet to hear from them. They could confirm the votes are from different people and tell me. Or they could see an array of socks at the same IP address or at emails that do not exist anymore. Why am I getting no reply?
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Why are you getting no reply? Well, there are at least a couple of reasons for that, that should be obvious... let's start with IP addresses first; The same IP address is
not a particularly useful guide in confirming it's the same person posting from different A2K accounts, as much as you might think it is. The reason you think it is, is because you really
don't have a clue when it comes to IP networking. Now let's suppose two different people using two different accounts both post from the same internet connection, like for example the same public library, or indeed wifi access point. Well, the same ISP is providing that internet connection, and it's the same account with that same ISP. What does that mean?
You get the same public IP address, but two different people are using that same internet connection. Therefore, all the admins at A2K would be able to call a fact is that the same internet connection is being used, that however
***does not prove*** it's one of the same person using two different A2K accounts, and therefore,
the site admins would have no way to know one way or the other if it's the same person, or two different people using the same internet connection. IP addresses are used to find someone's physical location, Google does this, and that is reliable unless they are using something like tor or a VPN (which is why one would use either of those two things). So that's the first problem you have.
The second problem you have is that; anyone here has a right to downvote any post here as much as you do, therefore the mods and admins
aren't here to find out who is downvoting you, and that
isn't their concern in any way. As they are likely not getting paid to mod this forum and do it in a volunteer capacity,
not as paid employment. Another potential problem for you is that, and depending on the forum software being used here at A2K, there may be no way for any of the mods to be able to know who exactly has up voted or downvoted a particular post(s).
FWIW, while there are a few accounts I have my suspicions about here; I'd be willing to bet that all of the recent posters in this thread (say at least the last three or four pages of this thread) are in fact
different people.
So it really boils down to this:
MontereyJack wrote:Stop posting bullshit. Problem solved.
...sorry to have to say pinky.
PS: While I don't follow every thread here (or likely even just half of them), you can count me as someone who has downvoted you many times for the same reason quoted.
