# Discourse-fingerprint -- what is it telling me?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-fingerprint-what-is-it-telling-me/113589>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [4월 5, 2019, 11:11오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-fingerprint-what-is-it-telling-me/113589 "2019-04-05T23:11:48Z")\
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**Post date:** [4월 5, 2019, 11:11오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-fingerprint-what-is-it-telling-me/113589/1 "2019-04-05T23:11:48Z")

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I have a user interested in [GitHub - discourse/discourse-fingerprint: A plugin that computes user fingerprints to help administrators combat internet trolls. · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-fingerprint) to keep track of sock puppets and such.

I installed the plugin but it just gives a list of “matches”, but I can’t tell what is matching what. Clicking on a user in the list doesn’t change anything.

Is it that all of those users have the same fingerprint?

I thought that I’d seen a topic about this plugin here, but I can’t find it now. The plugin itself links to meta and not a particular topic.

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