But then they ban you, and soon you start running out of alternate identities!
I never run out. On one site, on a lark, I created a second identity and then would use one in firefox and the other in IE. I figured the moderator would catch on pretty quickly. Nope. It went on for six months.
I would have conversations with myself, making sure to use different language styles so it didn’t look like the same guy. I’d “set up” one of me to make a salient point without it looking too much like a setup. It was a lot of fun.
Someone finally complained because I was just nailing them so much it was laughable. The Mod finally checked IP addresses and banned the “temp” account.
I have 37 accounts here but I only use 9 or so at once. (JK)