Had the same fishy thought here, for someone as a brand new account s/he has known almost the whole things how this forum works generally and top of that already aiming for gaining reputation. Theres a high chance s/he has another account before (or maybe a ban evader)

Kinda curious about this one too, lol.
Personally just heard about this "whitelisting", I guess it might relate to collecting forums account data done by loycev