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 Sock puppet troll accounts damage debate and discussion sites (12)

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Sock puppet troll accounts damage debate and discussion sites

It's clear that we have one person controlling at least 4 different accounts.

While having sock puppet accounts is somewhat dishonest, it is the trolling aspect: the inability to engage or defend their argument that presents an issue.

Having someone right wing to spa with would be excellent; however trolls that simply spam debates and messages without defending or debating undermine the credibility of debate sites, and the continual dishonest spam erodes the possibility of new membership.

The problem is the inevitable issue of free speech: should you give people the ability to undermine free speech with their own speech in this way? Where is the line? How do you enforce this?

As most importantly, is this type of speech so new that the concept of free speech hasn't had time to catch up and be updated with this propagandizing in mind?


This is a discussion: and the troll accounts know who they are and will be instantly banned if they don't act like adults, or post with more the one of their accounts.
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What is a sock puppet account?*

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Support your local sockpuppet troll.

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who cares ?

Cartman(18192) Disputed
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Intelligent people looking for a debate.

xljackson(260) Disputed
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Interesting...

Where exactly do you suppose I find these people?

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Nobody cares except for Ramshutu. Ramshutu stays up late at night and hangs from the ceiling drinking booze and taking pills.

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I'm a sock puppet NowASaint account.

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There's more than just one person with a ton of sock-puppets.

Ramshutu(227) Clarified
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That's actually more than possible; I guess. I haven't specifically noticed the others: either because they are patchy in terms of how much they are on; or they aren't the type of sock puppet I was talking about.

To be honest, the sock puppet nature isn't the problem. On other sites I've registered two accounts (mostly to get around technical problems, and have been open about it), and don't care if someone wants to run two accounts.

The main issue is the trolling part, is that this is a site for discussion; and when you have someone that is not interested discussion as much as simply flooding the system with troll threads, it prevents genuine discussion from happening.

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It's clear that we have one person controlling at least 4 different accounts.

While having sock puppet accounts is somewhat dishonest, it is the trolling aspect: the inability to engage or defend their argument that presents an issue.

Having someone right wing to spa with would be excellent; however trolls that simply spam debates and messages without defending or debating undermine the credibility of debate sites, and the continual dishonest spam erodes the possibility of new membership.

The problem is the inevitable issue of free speech: should you give people the ability to undermine free speech with their own speech in this way? Where is the line? How do you enforce this?

As most importantly, is this type of speech so new that the concept of free speech hasn't had time to catch up and be updated with this propagandizing in mind?

This is a discussion: and the troll accounts know who they are and will be instantly banned if they don't act like adults, or post with more the one of their accounts.

Oh we should be scared of RamHands Shut Up You Idiot !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And get a life !

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Who is say you aren't a troll RamHands ? You don't know anything about what you claim to know but what you are good at is whining. This is social media but maybe you can earn some extra cash by creating a program to eliminate sock puppets and troll accounts but until then a Crying Towel is what you need.

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Well, we got a clean sweep of sock puppets on this thread! Unsurprising really.

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Am I a sock puppet ;)