Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-9062114-20151024212230/@comment-26017205-20151030000529

ShawnCognitionCP wrote:

Wulfharth wrote:

ShawnCognitionCP wrote: I'm a bit shocked that no one here knows what a dynamic IP is. Everyone knows. See my last post about it.

The IP addresses matched. The chances that it was two seperate people entering chat with a dynamic IPs that match - one being Sajuuk and the other enquiring about him - is astronomical. In the UK, dynamic IPs are used. You know how many users get blocked on arrival to wikia because their IP matches with someone else, somewhere else in the world? It's very common. It happens all the time.

Your IP isn't some safekey that belongs only to you, and it isn't exactly super rare. Not in any territory that uses a sort of dynamic IP. I'd recommend brushing up on the subject.

Looks like I need to do a basic lesson in dynamic IPs....

When you go on the internets to look at dank memes, you ISP assigns you a super special number called an IP address. Usually its a dynamic IP, which means it it is plucked from a shared pool of IPs that you share with other users of the internets.

Now, when Sajuuk started his internets, the dymanic IP he was given the number 69.69.69.69.69. Then he logged into wikia and posted ... and wikia recorded that IP.

Usually, because dynamic IPs are not yours to keep, the ISPs can take that IP back after a little while, put it back in the shared pool and give you another one. Like 420.420.420.402.

The problem here is Sajuuk turned on his internets and was given the IP 69.69.69.69.69. He logged into his wikia account - and wikia recorded 69.69.69.69.69 = Sajuuk. Suddenly he logged out and logged back in under the sock. Oops, the IP had not changed yet - it was still 69.69.69.69.69. So even though it appears as another wikia user, wikia knows that both of these people had the IP 69.69.69.69.69.

Now wait a miniute... it could be innocent - after all....if dynamic IPs are shared from a pool and not unique to a person, then a vandal years ago maybe got banned on this wiki and that was some other guy. Yes, this can actually happen. But that is when we look at the CONTEXT:

---IP 69.69.69.69.69 is Sajuuk.

---A while later, another wikia user with IP 69.69.69.69.69 is in our chat asking questions about Sajuuk.

What people are actually suggesting is that the IP 69.69.69.69.69 was reassigned to some other guy who is not Sajuuk in another part of the world. Then that random person with the SAME IP suddenly feels like logging into TESwiki and talking about no other user but Sajuuk..... but its not him tho!!!

Yeah....ooooooooook.