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257. Then Taverner must be psychic because that sock was created a week before he was flagged for review.

The YellowSnow sock http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=308860 was created on 10/21 and Taverner was active until 10/29. MIRT didn't know he'd been flagged for review until he used the YellowSnow sock on 11/11 and we initially thought it was a troll pretending to be Taverner.

MIRT doesn't have the power to put anyone on review, and we only ban newbies. The "super secret MIRT forum" is accessible to anyone willing to serve a term, an experience I encourage every DUer to consider. The transparency you desire would mean handing trolls a set of tips about what they should do to be less recognizable, so I doubt that will ever happen. There's no oath of secrecy, though, so if you look back through the old threads in the Announcements forum, you'll see lists of MIRTers, past and present. Perhaps you trust one of them enough to ask what MIRT is like.