Competition also gives him this info to bring heat to their rivals in the game. One forum used a unique marker that appeared to be a benign msg count number so

Competition also gives him this info to bring heat to their rivals in the game. One forum used a unique marker that appeared to be a benign msg count number so they could identify krebs from screenshots he puts on his site and ban his account but he figured out what the marker was, cropped it out and was back with a new account.