Multiple users, single id?

[matt]

What do you reckon? Is evidence of more than one person using the same id?

Or perhaps Naresh forgot he'd already replied.

just wondering, like.

matt

[Former Member]

What's funny is that neither Naresh nor Satish actually answered the question.

[JozsefSzikszai]

do you think they ever do?

[David]

Sorry - although the time interval is short, there are no similarities between Naresh and ABAPER1234 in terms of the accounts and the various attributes behind them. In fact, Naresh is using a corporate SAP Partner account. Generally speaking (although there have been one or two exceptions), the gamers don't use these as they know we can easily report this through the local partner manager. We did this recently with a firm in India.

Best Regards,

David

[matt]

> Sorry - although the time interval is short, there

> are no similarities between Naresh and ABAPER1234

I didn't say there was - I was pointing out that the same id seemed to be being used by more than one person. Which you have confirmed.

matt

[Former Member]

Hmmm...another example?

[Former Member]

And another,

Two different replies to the same question from the same user a matter of minutes apart.

Strange.

[Former Member]

Probably not Christopher - this same question has been asked over and over again and some people cut and paste the answer from either an earlier answer or from the FAQ (but I doubt from the original developer's website). That's what Richard and I were going on about at the end.

Rob

[Former Member]

Nick - not that strange. Quite often after anwering a question, you get to thinking that there might be more you can add. Some people create new posts; others edit the original one.

Rob

[David]

Hi Matt,

How do you figure that the same userid is being used by more than one individual? I have no way of knowing that is the case based on information available in our LDAP at this time.

[Former Member]

That's a fair point Rob, but the example in Christopher's post does have two replies from the same user (both the plagiarized and (apparently) original) with exactly the same time stamp.

Nick

[Former Member]

I would say... it is the same person posting twice in the hope of...

... another shrubbery!

[Former Member]

I think it is possible that this is one single person, however the responses do not appear to be what I would consider someone who is "following up" from a previous response.

My hunch is that this is someone with a database full of answers and is simply copying and pasting those responses as multiple replies.

Chris

[Former Member]

The has obvious "hard-returning" in it...

I would say... it is a .txt database!

[Former Member]

Integrated with Google Desktop Search?

[Former Member]

Nick - I'm not apologizing for anyone or explaining any one thread, just saying that sometimes you want to add something.

In this case, who knows....?

Rob

[Former Member]

Ni! Ni!...

... a manual process (he missed the "hard-returns" at lines 7, 8 & 19 of the second post, but did keep line 1 of the first post...).

We need....a rabbit!

[Former Member]

run away...run away

[matt]

> Hi Matt,

>

> How do you figure that the same userid is being used

> by more than one individual? I have no way of knowing

> that is the case based on information available in

> our LDAP at this time.

Simply that the same user gave two answers to the same thread - and it wasn't like additional information, or clarification.

I just found it mildly amusing. I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.

matt

[Former Member]

Nobody <i>expects</i> the Spanish Inquisition…

[Former Member]

Possibly evidence of someone not reading the existing answers to the question before making their own contribution. Happens a lot, but I've never seen it happening under the same user id.

Do you think they share the t-shirt? One gets it Monday/Wednesday/Friday and alternate Sundays?

Nick