# How to reliably identify a troll with suspected multiple user accounts?

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [24.Август.2016 19:30:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-reliably-identify-a-troll-with-suspected-multiple-user-accounts/49163 "2016-08-24T19:30:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [24.Август.2016 22:54:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-reliably-identify-a-troll-with-suspected-multiple-user-accounts/49163/2 "2016-08-24T22:54:20Z")

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How “changing” are we talking on the IP? If necessary, just block like so:

`192.168.1.*`

or even

`192.168.*`

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