Like by their writing style?
Me, for instance. I could never be one.
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Q
I don’t have a link to it, but there was an instance where poster A said something, poster B replied back, and poster A was logged in as sock puppet C when replying as poster A. And, it was pretty obvious, as pronouns were used… something along the lines of
A: This is true.
B: No, it isn’t.
C: I never said it was true.
<crickets>
There was some small amount of suspicion that The Grapist and raisinbread were the same person. There were obvious similarities in one respect, but The Grapist was waaaay more coherent.
I’d say that we’ve had approximately ten or more posters who have been identified by their posting styles. Usually, a board member recognizes it,reports it, we confirm, ban. We sometimes realize it, and ban.
“Santa” outed herself accidentally, but that was long ago in the fun, carefree days before socks were banned. I guess we knew Santa was a sock, just didn’t know whose it was.
I guess it would take someone reporting they “suspect” another and then an investigation? What I mean is, the system isn’t quite that sophisticated, is it?
Also, the mods probably have their hands full with other stuff on the boards?
I just always wondered why someone would bother.
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TubaDiva, Marley, and Twickster are all my socks.
Sock Puppets will never gain their rights and freedoms unless they all come out as Sock Puppets. Then when users find out that they know and love someone who’s a Sock Puppet, then message board attitudes will change.
While Bob Ducca is my sock. Do the math.
I thought we were all DragonLady’s socks?
Nobody told me there would be math.
But that doesn’t change the fact that we’re all Spartacus, right?
[singing]I’m every [del]woman[/del] poster![/singing]
Sheesh, we’ve been over this before. The position, leaving aside the dreams of certain sad usurpers, is entirely clear.
Back in the day, I helped catch one. During the pay to post era, there were several threads over a period of a few months where people were asking about eye surgery. I had just gotten it done myself, so I was reading them all. I noticed someone was making the same post, almost word-for-word, in all of them. It took me a much longer time to notice that this post was coming from a different screen name in each thread. When I did, I reported it, and a couple dozen screen names were banned.
I still have my “Junior Moderator” badge.
I used to be Spartacus, but the support group has really helped me move past it.
Sadly, I’m Bricker.
Vanilla, perhaps?
There was the guy a year or so ago who outed his socks, but I don’t think that fits what Quasi is after.
However, I believe the Mods do identify a number of posters trying to come back under different names and the gavel drops. I don’t know if you would call that a sock.