Thread:3litecandycrusher/@comment-94.2.168.146-20150222130451/@comment-3225604-20150226133715

Imamadmad wrote: An IP address similar to Kool's isn't enough to convict somebody. IP addresses change almost constantly and it's rare for any individual to keep the same IP address between two editing sessions. One of my friends on DWA contributes as an IP user and the only thing that remains the same in his IP address is the first number, 89. Indeed, a few years ago his IP address switched between 4 different first numbers as well, and to prove a point once changed his IP address 4 times in 15 minutes by turning it off and on again. Because of this, you cannot expect a user to reappear under the same IP address time and again. Similarly, as IP addresses are reused, there have been cases where a person appears under the IP address which has previously belonged to a different user, most noticeable in cases when the previous owner of the IP address made a nuisance of themselves. This is especially common if a person is in a similar area to the previous owner of the IP address. That is why you have to be careful with IP users, as their varying nature makes it hard to identify people using them, and which is why you must judge them only by their recent actions in case you're actually talking to somebody quite different.

If this user has been harassing other users, can you please point to the exact comments you consider to be harassment? I can't see anything that I would classify as harassment. Well, I can actually, but it's not coming from the IP.

PS, the user you linked to above hadn't made any contributions, deleted or otherwise, so no evidence can be gained from that. It reminds me of an innocent block in Wild Ones Wiki by the staff. One time, a vandal once vandalized the wiki occasionally, usually with threats. Then, someone called the staff to block the vandal and the sock puppets. However, the vandal lives in the same apartment or similar with a to-be admin. As a result, probably the reasons you've mentioned, the to-be admin was globally blocked for a finite time, together with the vandal. That causes that user to create a new account.

I also suspect Flockky's block is related to your hypothesis, but I couldn't find plausible blocks related to Flockky's unprecedented block.