Note to commenters:
“A sockpuppet is an online identity used for purposes of deception. The term, a reference to the manipulation of a simple hand puppet made from a sock, originally referred to a false identity assumed by a member of an Internet community who spoke to, or about, themselves while pretending to be another person.”
Wikipedia
Stick to one identity, please.
Just like the situation with the Russians from that troll farm in St. Petersburg, it is possible to see where your posts come from, especially if you don’t even make an effort to hide them through a VPN or something. If you have two identities posting from the same computer, stop that. I’m not going to out those of you doing that (the rest of you can probably guess already), and nobody makes you use your real name, but try to have some backbone and stick up for yourselves. And above all, do not type a comment under one name and then have one of your sock puppets say something like “good point.” That is entirely lacking in integrity.
Anne Heche’s butthole pics would polarize my pants….
Dammit. My plans to start posting as The Fwald are thwarted.
The troll farm guys from Piter on WAPO and WSJ assume that no Americans know any history on Russia, Ukraine, etc. or anywhere east of Essen for that matter. I have a lot of fun with those clowns.
That such crap would occur here is really depressing.
But why would the trolls on those sites be any different from the trolls here?
“I don’t care what the pundits say – I want to hear from the guys looking for screencaps of Anne Heche’s butthole”.
is this… is this a thing that actually is happening? I can understand waging a war to influence the electorate on like, facebook… but this is a site for celebrity tiddies.
Kind of a weird place to make the effort, it seems like. Do people genuinely come here for the political commentary?
We live in a polarized world. There is no safe space from politics, except maybe on David Spade’s show, where politics and real issues are banned.
Depressing.
I changed my name once, from an old pseudonym to my permanent one, but that was a clear change. I even stated my old one when using my new one!
I have this weird thing where I say what I say and back it up if needed. Weird, these days, I know.
No problem, dude.
You are not one of the people I was addressing.
As you pointed out, you changed publicly, and you also did not use both identities simultaneously.
Good comment
For those of you slow on the uptake, Socrates Puppet is me, illustrating what not to do.
Great post, Scoopy!
“Trump’s a stable genius.” – John Barron