HoogiePringle

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Mentioned he was blocked from posting. I checked, and he was flagged as a spam users. His posts, and his status update, do not bear this out.

Accidental flag? If not, can someone chime in?

I have unflagged his status as a spammer and he is able to resume posting.

 
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This is my fault; I typed something up in here this AM but never hit submit, and didn't realize until just now.

I flagged him, and his account needs to be closed. It's a fake account, I'm not sure who it's created by, but we're not supposed to allow multiple accounts.

"Oogie Pringle" was a character in some 1940s movie. "HOOGIE Pringle" is some joke name my dad used to say, and I posted it HERE, on 9/2/12.

"@HoogiePringle" is an account made here on 10/4/12, and is clearly a reaction to my post. The name "Hoogie Pringle" doesn't appear anywhere else on the web besides here.

 
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Ah, I see. Thanks for clearing it up. The IP address looks unique. Can we confirm if this is a dual account?

 
He's purposefully posting from his phone on this account. Not sure what to do about that - I have suspicions that there are several multiple accounts on HuskerBoard where one account only uses the phone to post, which stymies efforts to link the accounts. Sucks, but there's not much you can do about that.

 
Hmmm. Can you think of a way to definitively link the accounts? Might have a hard time banning without that. That does seem like a tricky problem.

 
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Hmmm. Can you think of a way to definitively link the accounts? Might have a hard time banning without that. That does seem like a tricky problem.
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I don't know that this is necessary. The account is pretty obviously set up to be a sockpuppet (at least, IMVHO).

Think of it this way. What are the odds that someone would spontaneously create a new user account using a name that can only be found on HuskerBoard, and nowhere else. Let's say I posted the name a;lkjsadfl;kjae and about a month later someone creates an account named "a;lkjsadfl;kjae." Are we going to presume this is an innocent coincidence? I'm going to go with NO on that one.

Let's further say this is just some regular member creating a second account to have some fun. I don't have a problem with that per se, but HP's last several posts were near-trollish. I'm not inclined to let a member create a second account with the sole purpose of venting, even trolling. That's not OK.

Let's take it a step further, and say it's someone who's been a lurker for the last X months/years, and they decided to create an account at this point (kinda like I created an account in October, 2007 when the Callahan Era was falling apart) to talk about the current state of affairs. STILL, this is a problem, as this person is dancing a fine line between opinion and trollery.

Having said all that, I'll say this: My initial post (that I didn't actually submit here, because it was 6:30AM and I was dazed) said something to the effect of, "If this guy is legit, he'll email us asking to have his account reinstated. If not, he'll take the hint and resume his normal user name." Probably a lot of this would have been avoided if I had 1) actually used the Mod "ban" of the account, rather than flag him as a spammer, and 2) If I had posted the topic I created on this subject here in the Mod Forum in the first place.

I did neither, and now we're here. So that's my bad.

 
You have a better read on this than I would...the remote possibility of an identical modification to the character 'Oogie Pringle' is the only thing that gives me pause. That, and no clear indication that it's a second account. It's not your bad at all. If you feel strongly about this, I think you can go ahead and re-close the account. I don't think there would be any problems there, provided an explanation is given.

Although, he did the equivalent of emailing to ask for his account to be restated - asking for it via a status update. Do you think this makes him legit, or not enough?

 
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Here's my dilemma. I would like to PM him directly and tell him that we suspect he's a duplicate account, and we can't have that. Blah, blah, blah.

The problem with that approach is, we'd confirm to him that we can't verify his identity, nor can we link his sockpuppet to a second account. That would give a devious mind (like mine, for instance) license to create seven different accounts with seven different emails, all posting through something like Verizon or whatever the kids use these days in their new-fangled PSD devices. I'm not hip to that lingo - I use PCs, with the very rare occasional glimpse of the boards through my Nook.

Anything less than an instant cut-off would be admitting an inability that I'm not willing to admit.

Of course, the other option is to let that account go, pretend this was some kind of glitch, and just play out the rope, letting him hang himself eventually - or get bored, and move on.

 
Let's give him some rope and play it out. My thinking is that doing that increases the chance we can figure out his other identity. Sooner or later, I suspect he'll post under the "HoogiePringle" account while on a computer, and the IP can be used to link him to his real account. If we can do that, we can nail both.

 
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Let's give him some rope and play it out. My thinking is that doing that increases the chance we can figure out his other identity. Sooner or later, I suspect he'll post under the "HoogiePringle" account while on a computer, and the IP can be used to link him to his real account. If we can do that, we can nail both.
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It's called surveillance and I like that idea................

 
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