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Nah, it would have been pretty obvious to John and possibly the mods that it was probably me. The way it works is that GC logs IP addresses when users post. This is imperfect but it will often give admins a good idea which users might be the same. Here are the limitations:
1) it's possible that different users might have the same IP address if they're both on the same network, and that network is set up a certain way (using NAT, for example).
2) If someone's really determined, they can generally find a way to connect to GC from a different IP address.
However, in most cases, I'd guess that looking at the IP data does yield useful information. They could also compare writing styles if they found an IP match to get more information about whether the posters were the same person.
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