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by buildsjets 1238 days ago
stylometry.net is hot garbage. Zero of the candidates that it identifies as being related to buildsjets are my actual alternate accounts. The DBCooper one is interesting, it sounds like a username I might use, but it's still not me.
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Stylometry is probably mostly useful if you have a small number of suspects with a decent-sized public corpus that you want to match against a book/set of blog posts etc. Even then it's just going to be statistical.
FWIW, none of those are even scored even slightly high, so I don't think it is claiming something horribly incorrect.
And his actual alternative accounts may not have enough content to be included in the search.
On the other hand, for me, both of the bolded accounts were indeed my alts.