If you were self-employed, you'd be your boss, wouldn't you?
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck..........
if it has a red note under a post, that's probably because a Mod put it there.
If a Mod says that the IP address is the same one used by A N Other, you can be pretty sure the 2 posters are so intimately acquainted, they're Siamese Twins (conjoined, for the PC crowd)...or one and the same. .