> Everybody will have to trust the service to be honest about not issuing sockpuppet identities. How would you prove that you aren't? Because that is the whole

> Everybody will have to trust the service to be honest about not issuing sockpuppet identities. How would you prove that you aren't? Because that is the whole point of my service? It really feels like you're just trying to come up with ways that this won't work in very special and rare circumstances, where those really don't matter in practice for a social network (which let's face it, isn't a life or death service). It's all about upping the barrier to entry for casual users that would create hundreds of alt accounts to troll/spam people with.