Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/ByteOr

ByteOr

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This case's socks should have their talk page and email access revoked due to abuse.

Clerk note: Administrators almost always identify and block ByteOr sox within moments of them becoming disruptive, so filing an SPI is usually not necessary. All ByteOr edits should be evaluated by an oversighter, so in the rare case that a sock is missed, please contact an oversighter; #wikipedia-en-revdel ^connect is usually the fastest way. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (she|they|xe) 04:48, 23 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

– A user has requested CheckUser. An SPI clerk will shortly look at the case and endorse or decline the request.

A number of obvious ByteOr socks were tagged by Drmies as part of this sock farm. Perhaps the SPIs should be merged. Someone who's wrong on the internet (talk) 20:22, 21 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.

ByteOr and Bennet43 share a pool of proxies (and hence their socks look very similar on occasion), but I'm very confident they aren't the same. --Blablubbs (talk) 20:26, 21 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Blablubbs, one of the two agrees with you--but personally I don't really care, they're all the same, certainly from a moral point of view. I appreciate your more careful observation, though. Drmies (talk) 22:35, 21 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  - I spend a significant amount of time delineating Bennet43 behavioral fingerprint and tracking its accounts. So I'm interested in improving the tags if possible. Bennet43 is a long-term UPE group, dating back to at least 2013. ByteOr is a relatively recent troll. Both are known to use the same type of proxy networks, which I can see based on logged-out editing, but also seems consistent with CU observations. Even if there is a slight chance that someone involved in Bennet43 also does trolling on the side, I think these are functionally different personas, and we should track them separately. Is there any objection to re-tagging these as suspected to ByteOr, without prejudice of you taking note of the technical similarities here or on cuwiki? I don't really care about the presence or absence of ByteOr tags, just about keeping Bennet43's with a relatively low amount of noise. MarioGom (talk) 10:05, 22 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

– This SPI case is open.

Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.