Beeficus
It would be a simple matter to check server logs to determine if all the characters shown to be following one player were each logged in from seperate IP's, and if they are the same as the IP's those accounts are regularly logged from.
Not completely fool-proof but its one way.
hmm suppose so, if they did a long term trend. I actually do have RL friends who play that I go visit and play on my lappy sometimes