I think Rmcdermott927 is the first user who's been voted into DT1 with the help of red-trusted Newbies that are likely alt-accounts.

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Let me emphasize that I have nothing against Rmcdermott927, who's #36 Most Trusted on BPIP.
This topic is about the system, the user is just a coincidence. I have no reason to believe Rmcdermott927 is responsible for creating the sockpuppets.

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DT1 requirements (incomplete but relevant items of the list):

Rmcdermott927 was added to DT1 3 days ago. As of this morning, Rmcdermott927 is trusted by these users:
(only TECSHARE didn't include him yet a week earlier, so I'm not sure if this inclusion counted for DT1-voting yet)

The list shows:
2 users with at least 250 Merit
12 (including the 2 from above) users with at least 10 Merit
(Merit data is from last Friday)

I'm focussing on the following red-trusted users with 10 or more Merit:
24. Bazinga442 (Trust: -256: -8 / +0) (24 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
25. chickinini (Trust: -4: -2 / +0) (11 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
27. Pablojob (Trust: -16: -4 / +0) (10 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
28. PiningGarcia (Trust: -16: -4 / +0) (10 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
29. PingGermoco (Trust: -16: -4 / +0) (10 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
31. poypototoy (Trust: -4: -2 / +0) (10 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
32. Zin-Zang (Trust: -256: -8 / +0) (10 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)[/quote]

Those 7 users have all have quite similar Trust lists, probably taken from ▀▄ REMOVE LAUDA FROM DT ▄▀▄▀▄▀▄ LIST UPDATED 2/5/19 ▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀. That could be used by real users, and it's not what I'm after in this topic.
I'm also ignoring the first (Bazinga442) and last (Zin-Zang), as they don't seem to fit the pattern.

That leaves 5 users, registered on:
January 03, 2018, 06:42:37 PM
January 05, 2018, 03:04:40 AM
January 05, 2018, 03:15:43 AM
January 05, 2018, 03:19:11 AM
January 11, 2018, 03:22:45 AM

Last online on:
February 21, 2019, 02:40:26
February 21, 2019, 03:16:09 PM
February 21, 2019, 04:42:32 PM
February 21, 2019, 05:03:47 PM
February 22, 2019, 06:50:29

They all set their custom Trust list at the same week (week 3 in my Trust list viewer).

Out of their 5 votes, at least 3 have been used to reach the total of 10 inclusions.
They all have 10 or 11 Merit, largely received from the same few users around the same time:


It's not 100% conclusive evidence, but they sure look like alt accounts to me.

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Although I don't think there's much harm done here by voting Rmcdermott927 into DT1, it's a proof of concept of DT1-voting using alts and would set a bad precedent to let it happen, so I'm asking theymos to look into this.