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Originally Posted by EatingPie
I've never heard the term sockpuppet. Is that a general Internetism like "troll" or is it mobileread-specific?
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It's a general Internet term. Wiki has a decent rundown:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sockpuppet_(Internet)
but basically it's when a person sets up a second identity (or more) in any kind of forum for the specific purpose of praising the original, trolling, slagging off someone in the hope that only the sockpuppet gets banned, and so on.
Discovered sockpuppetry is very likely to light up the entire control panel(*) back in the moderator Star Chamber.
Cheers,
Marc
(* We have an actual Control Panel, but I just mean the metaphorical version here, which in my mind looks kind of Bridge-of-the-Enteprise-y.
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