This "gift the birds" event is a funny way to do it. Rarely-used accounts signing in to gift a champ with ip, then immediately logging off. Wouldnt be hard to map who the smurfs are smurfs of (with moderate certainty).
Don't think they'd actually bother doing this, but the notion gave me a chuckle.
Starcraft243ver1 votes? There are thousands of way to identify smurfs.
The simple way you are typing in chat, the pace between 2 keys you press identifies you, your computer's serial number, your windows license, your IP, your key bindings, they way you play....
Brain Errör 4041 votesNo 2 people type the same way? Lol. I've always considered that everyone has a set WPM. Meaning, more than 1 person can have the exact same WPM. Some people type quickly, some type slowly. Most gamers, at this point, should have a pretty decent amount of WPM. Anyone that's written anything longer than 2 sentences, on a board especially, probably type around the same WPM.
But, if that is the case, that'd be news to me. ;o Typing is your digital fingerprint? Lol.
Starcraft243ver1 voteshttps://arstechnica.com/security/2015/07/how-the-way-you-type-can-shatter-anonymity-even-on-tor/
There are dozens of articles about this, I let you pick the one you want, just google it. It's not only a matter of WPM, it's a matter of time frame between keyup/keydown events and the timeframe between the keystroke 'a' then 'p', or 'a' then 'k'.
SEKAI1 votesNo need to go that far, if you quick/smart cast on new accounts, 9 out of 10 you're smurf.
LostFr0st1 votesPretty sure quick-cast is enabled by default now on new accounts. That would have been a good hint at finding them though.
Spacesuit Spiff1 votesTo clarify: if they wanted to identify who a given smurf belonged to. Hence why i dont see why theyd bother.