User blog comment:Username5243/Why I oppose being suspicious of new people/@comment-30754445-20180530003019

First of all, while you weren't "calling any names", it is obvious that you we refering to me :-)

Secondly,  you're mixing two issues here:

1. There are - maybe - half a dozen new accounts (not many) for which there are strong indications that they are Edwin sock puppets. These are the ones that I've "suspected" and while I may be wrong about a handful of them, I'm 100% positive that I got most of them right.

2. There are hundreds of new accounts which we know nothing about. The vast majority of them are obviously fine, but it is a virtual certainty that some of them are not. Why? Because it is only by happy circumstance and momentary negligence by Edwin, that those accounts at #1 have been unmasked.

Now, I completely agree with you that we shouldn't suspect people from group #2. I'm simply saying that they are a security risk. Especially when it is practically guaranteed that Edwin will try to use such an acount to weasel into our new home. Given his past behavior, this is inevitable (assuming that he has at least 1 account which we haven't detected yet, which is a virtual certainty).

So given these facts, it seems completely crazy to me to the people from group #2. Sure, most of them are innocent, but it's not like I'm proposing to throw them in jail or anything. And we can always invite them later, after the new site stabilizes. What's the rush?