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Old 09-24-2010, 01:55 AM   #251
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Originally Posted by montsnmags View Post
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. )


Marc, I have been a member of MR for over two years, and didn't want to have to ask 'Why on earth is everyone is everyone talking about 'psockpuppets'?'

While I'm on the 'phone love, where is our 'how to' list? You know 'spoilers and the whole arsenal of goodies to zap your post with'?

New computer, new programs and don't know what the heck I'm doing
anymore. Those sort of instructions.

Cheers
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