I mean, do some people go out of their way to create an extra account and then just act like an a$$hole with said account to rile up other posters??? Just seems so far fetched for me that someone would waste their time on a message board trying to "trick" people into believing their someone else??
and if they are real, why doesnt the admin just delete them as he can see everyones IP?
Maybe im just slow but I dont see the point of becoming a sock puppet.
The use of "the sock puppet" is just a second level of plausible deniability.
I like the idea of nobody knowing who I am.
It doesn't particularily bother me that I don't know who anybody else is......
Sort of like being blindfolded in a "Fifty Shades....." type novel. :cheeky:
Over time the sense of anonymity can be eroded away for any number of reasons.
Our persona becomes familiar to others and we can become known in our "anonymity".
Or maybe we meet up in some cafe in SDQ or POP or PUJ or even, God forbid, Friusa.....(lol.)
However it happens we might find ourselves a little too exposed to the community.
Voila.........
Enter the sock puppet who can bring back that oh so cherished sense of anonymity......
Or
Some idiot has an ax to grind and is too much of a coward to come out from behind the shroud when he/she slings all those arrows or bullets.
It is a painless way for a person to peddle bs and hate propaganda without having to accept any responsibility for it.
Many reasons, many ways....
The more recent SP who is upchucking all sorts of homophobia across the site is clearly a person who is practiced in the art of using words as weapons. Belligerence and intolerance are two of the most oft used tools of the hate peddler....
Words are important ......
Too important to be dragged down into the mud and slime where these types hang out.....
(imo)
p.s. Congratulations on reaching 500 posts and welcome to "off topic".