Any update on the sockpuppet accounts? There was some proposal a few pages back regarding it. I would like to see them removed, after it is proven they are sockpuppets without a shadow of doubt.
No. We talked with the NODE people about this and we weren't satisfied with their conclusions. There's also a thread on the NODE sockpuppet and it's very controversial (and an entertaining read, especially when people began to criticize their methods and then labelling whole groups of people as socks even though evidence points to the contrary that they're not related to each other).
They were relying heavily on "intuition". Like there was a Hill and another user Rockhill, who are long time users of Bitcointalk, who were grouped together on a name basis by NODE even though these people were clearly not the same individual. Then they were also grouping some people by an ISP, which is bollocks because in some countries there's only one or two major ISP companies.
there was calls for a second audit but it quickly devolved into a NODE styled witchhunt and people were getting terrified of getting their stakes taken away, not for being socks but because it was devolving into "let's just start taking stakes away from hundreds of people for no reason", so it was canned.
There are more productive things we should be focusing on
