One tablet shared by 2 users

minty777

duncanthedog said:

minty777 said:

Hi_Fidelity said:

Not true. I know I'm not the only person in my company who visits MSE ... we all (in the UK) arrive at the Internet via the same public IP address, which is the address MSE will see.

Well I have this account and  brother had another account and he got banned for having more than one account. We only had an account each with different email addresses. 

Did he get banned for having more than one account and you didn't?
If it was the case of the ip address getting banned then you would have been banned as well.

No he had one account. Basically they banned him saying he was me. They left my account alone. 😕They didn't ban the ip address, just the user.

203846930

Has he put in an appeal to the forum team?

[Deleted User]

To the best of my knowledge MSE has never had the ability to ban IP addresses, it should have but has never invested in it.

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venison said:

To the best of my knowledge MSE has never had the ability to ban IP addresses, it should have but has never invested in it.

It has done in the past, I had to appeal an IP address ban after I had copied a Word document and posted it on the forum, I was reinstated after the appeal.

Sea_Shell

Ive often read threads where people openly admit to creating a new account as they want to remain "anonymous" to their main username, especially if wanting to discuss something very personal.

Is this allowed?  As long as there is no intention of misuse, spamming etc. and they are open to the fact that it is a "new" username?