# Anonomous Mode Description/Groups?

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [September 5, 2017, 9:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anonomous-mode-description-groups/69434 "2017-09-05T21:29:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 8:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anonomous-mode-description-groups/69434/5 "2017-09-06T20:42:55Z")

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> [@HAWK](#):
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> Admins and mods can see the new user via the UI and can do an IP lookup on the last used IP address to see who else has used it. In many cases that is enough to identify the user.

Admins can also view account associations (same place you would see e.g. Google([email@gmail.com](mailto:email@gmail.com))) which lists which account created it.

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