[Mr Kewl]

Hello all.

Trust Scan we know its a very good feature, it was implemented to reduce the scams and bad deals on HF as it would give you necessary statistics to see if a person can/should be dealt with?
How?
By checking:

• Last Email Change
  
• Password reset
  
• Gauth
  
• Last Login IP changed
  

These are some tools, which will actually give you a good statistical insight on should a member be dealt with or not.

But from what I've observed most of the people use it for a different purpose and its in Lounge.
If a new member posts a thread everyone goes berserk and we see posts like

"OmgZZ!! IP MATCH WID 1 ODER PERSON!!!

"OMZZ U IS MULTIIII"

"SUM1 PLEASE CHECK HIS TRUSTSCAN"

Everyone goes in a super mod mode and just wants to accuse new members of being multis whether they are or not.

Note: Just because someone's IP might match to another user its not necessary that they might be ban evading/multi accounting or breaking rules. Its a very common thing happens easily with Public Wifi/Mobile network or for w/e reasons.
Imho you should just chill and enjoy the site and let the staff/admin deal with the multis etc.


We'll end it with a quote.

Not uncommon and staff and I can tell if the IP is home or cell based.

But I want to make a comment additional to that.

I keep getting PMs like "OMG my IP matches another user..who is it."

It is NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS WHO YOU MATCH IPs WITH.

I also get "User XXXX matches 3 other IPs, I just saw his Trust Scan."

DO NOT REPORT USER TO STAFF BASED ON TRUST SCAN. You should not be contacting staff about it. You should not be asking staff to review accounts based on that.

Got it!

Ignore the formatting

[Nachfolger]

Thanks for the thread. However, for a new member, I truly think it's a fair thing to say they are a multi, if they match other IPs. Especially if they give it away, which most do by their posting etiquette.

[rapidfire08]

Yea okay whatever. It just seems cocky.

[King Cin]

Unless a thread like this gets stickied idiots will just keep playing mini mod with their ability to trust scan.

[Ahri]

Just like idiots who lose access to their account due to 2FA people will still act like mini admins.

[Zexo]

Ya way too many people use trust scan to mini mod the shit out of new members.

[Grammar Rays]

Members should be banned from putting BLAH BLAH has 2 matching IPs and also banned from PM'ing staff using trust scan as proof.
Trust Scan should be a feature users use themselves, and not spam all over the forum.

[⁠Cammy]

And why do you think we have this stereotype?

[Who Soup]

This definitely needed to be said; thank you for making this.

[Windows95]

Omg, OP dosent trust trust scan, do a trust scan on OP!

[Brendan]

It's not like they're doing any harm. If a user doesn't trust another based on their trust scan, then they don't.

[Doodlegod]

THANK YOU! I heard I have 1 or 2 matching IPs on my account, I explained one in a thread (friend signed up), and now I miss out on tons of deals because people accuse me.

[Spooky White]

Thanks for the thread, looks nice lol. Anyways I'm addicted to trust scan myself.
#MAGICFLAKES MOD MODE

[lithuaniа]

It's latest IP matching another user's latest IP. So technically you can match another users IP from yours changing, but that would mean they have not logged on since. If two active users have the same IP then what you are saying cannot be the case.

I realised that, so I deleted my post - I didn't know it had to be the latest IP address.

[BLURRYFΛCE]

I'm trying to think of a way the trust scan could tell whether the IP is home or cell based without giving out the ISP name, but I can't come up with anything.