What Are Sock Puppets and Trolls?

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What Are sock puppets and Trolls? Is there some list somewhere to tell me what the defining characteristics are? I fell like such an idiot becuase I don’t know what they are, but I would feel even stupider if I did something that was Trollish, and didn’t even know it.

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Quick answers:

Sock puppet -a second user-name for an existing member or a new name for a banned poster. Not permitted on these boards.

Troll - A poster saying things just to get a rise out of everyone. Usually a returning sock puppet.

For a long in-depth discussion, look at the ‘search’ link in the top right-hand corner of your screen. There have been many threads about these two subjects.

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What is a troll? What is trolling?

http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mtroll.html

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=49235
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=47221
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=38617
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=66683
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=29111
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=52737
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=50668

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Thanks UncleBeer.

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Eh. Don’t thank me. Thank, Jodi. She dug up all those message board links and posted 'em just the other day. All I did was peek at the threads and copied the URL’s.

But, on Jodi’s behalf, you’re welcome.

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Oooooohhh! Pretty!

Thanks Jodi! Isn’t Jodi swell?

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She most certainly is. Thank you Jodi!