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No one is able to show evidence on an anonymous board. Even if you have tight IPs for every poster, you still can't know for sure that you aren't looking at a shared computer with one or several users. (That said, I cop to my posts and yes, it's me whose posts you're responding to.) The idea of expecting users to have evidence when they don't even have the tools you do for extrapolating someone's identity is kind of unfair.

You are confusing "evidence" and "proof". While it is possible that multiple users of the same computer can post in a way that it gives the appearance of a troll, it is quite unlikely. But, even if such activity were to trick me into wrongly believing that the multiple users were a single troll, at least my mistake would still be based on evidence. But, to carry your argument to its next logical step, even on a non-anonmyous board nobody can show proof because users can share usernames and passwords.

I am not expecting you to show evidence before calling out a troll. I am asking you not to call out trolls. If you suspect a troll, report them to me. I can use the tools at my disposal to make an evidence-based decision. No matter how well-intentioned your efforts, or how sure you feel about your conclusions, it is very disruptive to have such a high number of threads being interrupted with someone crying "troll". You and I have the same goal of stopping trolls. I would just rather you play a cooperative rather than disruptive roll in doing so. [/quote]

I'm just catching up with this thread and wanted to thank you, Jeff, for your clarifications to my post yesterday. I see your point and can easily change my habits to channel the cooperative role.[/quote]

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