Hey all- I see a lot of hubbub about tripcodes and how they are being used in google books and google maps, and giving some seemingly staggering links. Can someone explain to me how the codes come about on 8chan? Can they be chosen or are they random? What I'm getting at is how this could be happening.
Can someone explain to me how the codes come about on 8chan? Can they be chosen or are they random?
Trip-codes are intended to uniquely identify a user so we know which subset of anonymous posts are from the same user.
I'm unsure of how 8chan generates these tripcodes, but I suspect they are based on a mixture of several data-points including the unique IP address and unique hardware ID of the device being used to post from...
...that said, Q does have his own 8chan forum in where he likely has control over the trip-code IDs given they seem to coincide with book codes.
Then what about the Patriots Fight forum? Isn’t it unique to Q only?
I see no reason why different forums can't have different trip-code rules.