Do you know How many alt accounts the guys who make 10+ posts a day are using?
Do you think it would be a good idea for this info to become public knowledge? Not asking you guys to "dox" anybody, just link all the alt account names from the same poster together
Good idea. There are obviously so many sock accounts. Why are some people trying to have an oversized influence on the board?
"People" "Trying" to have an oversized influence on this board is precisely why I asked.
Some anons are in countries where they have limited internet/power. They download tons of stuff when they finally get power. Don’t lump them in this group. There may very well be sock accounts here, but all Patriots deserve to have a voice.
I'm not talking about people who have posted countless consecutive or near consecutive posts. That is a separate issue. I'm talking about socks.
i guess i'm confused... why would a frequent poster have another account to post even more?
I suppose they are trying to make it seem like their ideas have more support than in reality.
we already filter out the shills though. pedes don't need artificial support. and the very frequent posters seem like they already have their hands full doing just that. I guess some could use alts, but I don't really understand why anyone would come to that conclusion..?
Oh I think there are plenty of shills. They shill for psyops like flat earth and the mandela effect. They shill for disinfo outlets like yournewswire. Some of them are sincere but they are still pushing misinfo. I have noticed a lot of socks about these topics so there is a convergence of problems here.
how does one recognize a sock puppet account though? is that just a suspicion?
shills get paid, and certainly not everyone that believes in flat earth gets paid to do so. goes for every other theory as well, whether or not you subscribe to them. heck, at least one mod is a flat earth apologist. i think that's dumb, but not very strong evidence of them being a shill, much less using multiple accounts. idk idgi
When numerous accounts conspicuously use the same turns of phrase repeatedly and push the same ideas it starts to become more than suspicion I think. You haven't noticed any particular problem with socks?
turns of phrase are things that propogate naturally in a community like this one, no? do you have any examples?
sometimes i notice a suspicious user, but they don't usually last long...
it would take a bit of dedication to infiltrate this place, with all the safeguards for trustworthiness. at that point, i'm not sure why you'd assume multiple subversive accounts to be one unpaid dude and not an organized and paid shilling effort by multiple people. do you think that's happening?
I think there's a very obvious shilling effort underway... they are paid... and get removed en masse. you think the unpaid ones are more effectively subversive than the paid ones?
i'm still not seeing it..
I rooted out a "viper's nest" of destructive sock accounts that traced back to a mod on another once-popular forum and was thanked profusely by another mod. There are tells, some of them subtle and some obvious. All it is is paying attention. I don't understand why you think it would be hard for someone to make multiple accounts here.
Some people shill for free. They want to discredit boards like this. It's their hobby. Call it trolling, not shilling, whatever. The problem is socks.
Forgive my ignorance but I like to learn , what is a sock ? Thank you !
It's someone's alternate account. Sometimes one person will have numerous sock accounts.
While there very well may be people posting with multiple accounts, there are plenty of regulars who post 10 + times a day from there one and only account. They are called - get ready for it - women.
Women are chatty.