Good question. Post-tripcode its easy if you accept the notion that the trip cant easily be reverse engineered, but what about before this was used?
The post ID is a session-specific identifier I think - within a thread they should tie the origin of the posts to the same person and/or device, but in other threads? On other days? What if you reboot and try and post again in the same thread, has your ID changed? I dont know enough about how the post IDs function or are generated.
Bottom line, I think its mostly speculation that those early posts are Qs, since I cant see any hard designation that was quoted or sourced from anywhere. Just like if someone with very specific niche expertise posted a deal of advanced info on some obscure topic, and then a similar post was made a couple weeks later. Guesswork... even if they say 'i was the person who posted on this topic previously' that's no assurance of anything.
Good question. Post-tripcode its easy if you accept the notion that the trip cant easily be reverse engineered, but what about before this was used?
The post ID is a session-specific identifier I think - within a thread they should tie the origin of the posts to the same person and/or device, but in other threads? On other days? What if you reboot and try and post again in the same thread, has your ID changed? I dont know enough about how the post IDs function or are generated.
Bottom line, I think its mostly speculation that those early posts are Qs, since I cant see any hard designation that was quoted or sourced from anywhere. Just like if someone with very specific niche expertise posted a deal of advanced info on some obscure topic, and then a similar post was made a couple weeks later. Guesswork... even if they say 'i was the person who posted on this topic previously' that's no assurance of anything.