‘INFORMATION COLLECTION’
Information collection is also a very effective method to determine the psychological level of the forum members, and to gather intelligence that can be used against them. In this technique in a light and positive environment a ‘show you mine so me yours’ posting is initiated.
You mean like, "How many user names do you have here"?
lol, well done... point taken. :) But if I was here for nefarious reasons other than being a village idiot you would never know. Seriously, I used to root these guys out on boards and they were not at all obvious and very hard to catch. Most of it was subliminal and very hard to detect. I actually got pretty good at it. But without the server logs and IP’s it was absolutely impossible to put 2 and 2 together. :)