Originally Posted by Shadowed
I'm not sure if it's intended for contributing authors to not be listed as authors, but I would have to poke Dolby to find out.
None of the rules for keys are set in stone, we have made exceptions and you guys are welcome to send Cairenn or Dolby a message asking to get a key even if you are a contributing author. We're mostly trying to cut down on the abuse, and don't want people adding 50 contributing authors and getting multiple keys.
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Most forums track IPs. Thus, if multiple accounts are coming from 1 IP, this could be an indication of such abusers. I can imagine that there would be special situations such as couples who program together or families with multiple programmers, but I wouldn't think that there would be many of these.
That being said, I have absolutely no idea how many active accounts we have on this site, so the time it would take to check each account's IP may not be worth it. Just an idea.