I know a debunker over on the IMDb boards that does this once in a while to confuse the twoofers.
I never even noticed any of those names to be honest. Is this a record for longest unfound sock though? Seems like a long time to be running 3 accounts without being caught.
-XT
We had a poster with socks banned last year that posted through the P2P period. Hombre did not according to Marley23.
Usually it’s for lulz or to make a point, “damn the man” style. You can’t underestimate the angsty teenage attitude some of these people have. Another motivation was cheapness, if they switched from one account to another during the PTP days.
See what I mean?! The OP in that thread has had at least one account for eight years! 
Granted, the third poster’s account has only been active for one year, but give me a break. It’d be even funnier if all 5 were actually the same person, though.
We’ve worked that one out, actually. No socks involved, just a misunderstanding.
Ah was wondering. Thanks Marley23.
Is the third identity classified ?
Could’ve been as simple as not being able to stand losing an argument, so he brought in his own “reinforcements”. I believe this was the original motivation for sock puppetry and the coining of the term back on usenet, no?
Nothing classified about it, it’s used in all of the links I gave. The third account was darkcool. Hadn’t been used since late 2001.
What’s a twoofer.
Yeah, but this didn’t seem to be an overt case of that. And I’ve seen others over the years that really didn’t do that at all.
Maybe Marley’s right–it’s about stickin’ it to The Man.
I thought it might be him but ruled him out because I checked the date of his last post.
That’s because Bush has not been able to play on the internet while holding the office of President. Check back again in another eight years and you will find the same thing, only with Obama.
I had to ponder it myself. I suspect that it is an alternate spelling for Truther. Truthers
Why would anyone want to argue with themselves. They’d always lose the argument?
This is why I don’t talk to myself!
It’s someone who doesn’t believe in 9/11.
We’ll never really know why he originally did it. “Stickin’ it to The Man” doesn’t really make more sense to me than having backup in an argument, or ways to ask questions you wouldn’t want to ask under your main screen name, etc.
That’s another reason. It’s largely idiosyncratic.
The one universal characteristic is that these people believe they are brilliant. Convinced they’re Professor Moriarty, they post away and believe they’re pulling the wool over everyone’s eyes. The truth is they lack subtlety, and act on compulsion. They can’t help themselves, and compulsive people can’t keep from tripping themselves up.
Probably they want to get caught. The joke’s no good if you’re the only one laughing at it. That might work if you’re a real prankster or Andy Kaufman, but that’s not who we’re dealing with here. We’re talking about simple people who are desperate for attention. They keep pushing it, they have lots of faith in their own cleverness, but not as much as they think. Their arrogance kills them.
For example they’ll start threads to inquire about the banning of their own accounts. That’s a brilliant fucking move, don’t you think? After your socks get banned, call attention to yourself by asking about it? Even when you’ve established that as your M.O.? To do something like that you’d have to be flat out arrogant. Or convinced you’re dealing with inferiors. With intellectual defectives of the lowest order!
Like Cisco said, you wish you could see their faces when they find out they were wrong.