Have you ever used a sockpuppet to kick your own thread?

[Beware the Beast Man]

Poll question: Have you ever used a sockpuppet to kick your own thread?

[name not needed]

1. I don't have a sockpuppet.

[Wat_Tyler]

2. Nah, I hear your post goes all wonky if you do that.

[Beware the Beast Man]

5. Yeah, all that hard wonk gone to waste.

[Zomby Woof]

3. haha!

Bonk! :bounce:

[HEyHEY]

4. What kind of asshole would do that?

[GingerSnaps]

6. If half of the people on DU have one sock puppet

Wouldn't that mean that DU has 30,000 members instead of 60,000 members? :shrug:

Or

What if someone has created a whole group of sock puppets that agree with each other? When sock puppets attack :D

And

What if you figured out someone's sock puppet because of a message that they posted in ATA. Would you let them know? I did and the person had a knipshin over it. :evilgrin:

[Wat_Tyler]

7. Or the people who constantly change personalities.....

I've been Screaming Lord Byron, Mumbling Peasant Steve and Number Six. I may be responsible for have the usernames on DU!

[LincolnMcGrath]

9. You're SLB?

WTH have I been?

[Wat_Tyler]

10. I was.

I got bored, and it was a rather silly name.

[LincolnMcGrath]

14. I thought it was great.

Silly is good sometimes.

[Wat_Tyler]

15. Yeah.

I guess familiarity bred contempt, eh?

[arwalden]

17. But None Of Those Have Ever Been BANNED, Right?

You just changed them because you were tired of the monikker, or because it didn't fit your personality any more, or because it didn't convey the proper amount of humor. (Or perhaps you actually DO have multiple personalities. :hi:)

That's a far cry from the people who are BANNED and then return time and time again using a different username.

Technically speaking, is that a "sock puppet" or a "Zombie" from the dead?

-- Allen

[Zomby Woof]

18. You're Zombyphobic!

x( ;-)

[Wat_Tyler]

19. True, I've never been banned -except for that one time with the spam guard

I changed the first time because someone else had a very similar name, the second time because I was bored and work was looking into internet usuage, the third time because the name I chose was really dumb. :hi:

[Wickerman]

32. sock puppet is a never banned guy

Zombie is returning from the "dead", after being tombstoned. So, yep, Allen, you are correct. While sock puppets may be kind of annoying and "artificial" - to use a polite term, a zombie is in no way acceptable and when discovered will be nuked again. If people think their accounts were turned off unjustly then they should follow the instructions on the notice they get and try to get re-instated.

[arwalden]

33. Are Members Encouraged To Narc On A Zombie?

Should we click alert? Or should we just give then enough rope to hang themselves?

[Wickerman]

34. Better to alert than antagonize

but yeah, the rate of users these days is pretty high - we can always use the help via alert from users. A PM is always accpetable, too.

Happy Holidays!

[LincolnMcGrath]

8. Who was it?

[Wat_Tyler]

12. What? You didn't know that Beastman is arwalden's puppet?

(kidding)

[Beware the Beast Man]

13. Geee, how did you ever get that idea?

:D

[JVS]

37. No, then all the people on DU would have sockpuppets

Mathematically half the people have sock puppets (we'll assume those who have sock puppets have 1 sockpuppet)

60000= 1X+2Y where X is the number of honest non-sockers and Y is the number of deceiving sock puppeteers. X+Y is the true number of DUers and because half of the Duers have sock puppets X=Y. Substitute to get 3X= 60,000 and X=20,000 so the true number of DUers is 40,000

[SOteric]

11. Geeezzz, I'm trying to remember if I even have any sockpuppets.

[Khephra]

16. Where would I find the time to have a sockpuppet?

:shrug:

[ThoughtCriminal]

20. We're all sockpuppets

You're alone.

[Wat_Tyler]

21. But aren't we all God's Sockpuppets?

Hmm?

[tigereye]

22. no we are just god's socks

and they need a wash. ;)

[Wat_Tyler]

23. So that's what happened to Nietzche!

He ran out of detergent! Now it all makes sense!

[tigereye]

24. methinks you have had too much nog, Nairn

I was also thinking that we are all God's Bits of Wood.

nice holiday? Did the little ones enjoy Christmas? My kid actually did not complain about his failure to procure a Play Station.

[Wat_Tyler]

29. Yeah. Although, Mari freaked out when I took her to see The Polar Express.

Maybe I shouldn't have taken her to the IMAX 3-D showing.

[tigereye]

35. yeah little kids can be pretty sensitive

to movies at that age. My son flipped out when he first saw Emperor Zurg in Toy Story 2 and had to be taken screaming from the theater. He loved Polar Express, though, we saw it twice. :)

[Wat_Tyler]

38. Pity, I liked it.

What I saw of it, anyway.

[RandomKoolzip]

25. Keep your sockpuppets in your drawers.

[EleanorofAquataine]

26. What is a sockpuppet, if I can ask?

I'm new here. Thank you.

[CJCRANE]

27. Is that a trick question?

I guess a sockpuppet is where some-one has two usernames and they use the second one to agree with stuff the first one said.

[Kire]

28. wow, I learned something just now

thanks!

[katinmn]

31. hah. Eleanor, whose sockpuppet are you? HMMMMM??? n/t

[Richardo]

30. As one who also runs a 'search' every day to see if I got any mentions...

...yes.

I'll even reveal my sockpuppet: CogitoErgoDem.

[rbnyc]

36. If I want to kick my own tread, I just do it.

I don't have a sockpuppet.

[skygazer]

39. I can barely remember my own name

I don't need any alter egos. :silly:

[LincolnMcGrath]

40. William Rivers Pitt has 61615 sock puppets!

Who remembers that old accusation? (We are all WRP!) lol sillyfreepers

[bantha]

41. Kick

:kick: