Time for a bump. There's new investigators who may not have seen this thread when it was first posted.
Basically, the question is what trust to leave when uncovering alts?
I think shorena's post is the best thing to do unless there is some different situation in a case.
Negative for scammers, neutral for all others.
You connect alts by there bitcoin address posted or on their profile? Have taken into account that accounts changing hands because selling/trading are permitted on this forum? Do you know it is very easy to framed someone based on bitcoin address posted?
In such conditions one may post some proofs to unlink himself from the accounts connected and get ratings removed if any.