Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33668185-20181229231243/@comment-34888194-20181230142241

Tabuu5 wrote: Not a lot to say here, but I feel like if every mod had to tell all the other mods who is a sock of who, especially if the user had multiple socks and VPNS, it would waste time actually moderating the chat. Yes, that's why Community Central admins and moderators have CheckUser rights. Sometimes in chat, you can see that an account was banned right after they've joined the chat. It's because they've used an alt account to evade the ban. Changing IP addresses, or using VPNs, doesn't change their IP address far from the "user's" destination.

It's also a good reason why a chat moderator bot was watching the chat, although the bot may be out of chat for a while.