How do you find duplicate accounts

Troublesome members have a tendency to register multiple accounts, for backup, creating spam, boosting their own account, coming back after a ban etc.

How do you identify duplicate or likely duplicate accounts proactively on discourse and handle that? Just IP lookup is not reliable.

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We rely solely on the sockpuppet setting on Meta, which uses IP. If that’s not working for you, there is this experimental option:

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That’s precisely what I was looking for. Will play with it and check if it’s useful for us.

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