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
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.
huh? its super easy to make multiple accounts here. never implied otherwise. i'm saying that subversive people on here have enough trouble keeping one account active, much less several of them. and if there is such a coordinated shilling effort, it would make plenty of sense for multiple people to be behind it.
if you think even one user here is subversive, you should get mods to investigate. do you think there are accounts they have missed?
it seems like OP is accusing our most frequent posters of being subversive. that would be a big issue. subversive people give themselves away, while our dedicated posters have proven themselves
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.