Originally Posted by
saranyc
Unless you are clearly sending money back and forth I'm not sure why having the same IP would be viewed as abuse? I've started sending my roommate money for rent on AP and she logs into her account from the same network. It's a legitimate use of the site (I think) but perhaps we will get shut down. We'll see.
It is a legitimate use of the site. One of the things they promote is using AP as a way to pay your friends. "Pay John for lunch!" is written on a hand on the AP homepage, for example. Thus, you think they'd
expect back and forth payments between people. Sadly, that does not appear to be the case.