Thread:Patrickau 26/@comment-2156322-20121225001931/@comment-961279-20121225055206

It's hard to say in this case. For the IPs I have on record that are confirmed as being used by the Rocko's Modern Life vandal, the cities are about 45 miles apart. But today's IP and one of the other IPs are only 20 miles apart. So if it's the same person, they are doing a lot of traveling in order to vandalize, probably more than they actually need to.

On the other hand, those three cities have a combined population of about 500,000 people. Different tactics in that large a population area could actually be from two different people.

When it's inconclusive like this, I tend to wait to see if a troublesome person brings their own rope to hang themselves with. A lot of times they do. You just gotta wait for them to show you the rope, which ties them to their previous tactics. In a few cases, they're almost eager to show you the rope. In others, they slip up and the rope falls out of their jacket. Then I lower the boom.