My take on Sockpuppets and Trolls...
Sockpuppets aka Socks, are additional profiles created by the same person. They could be deceptively used to increase views and comments to a blog (or forum thread) by adding agreeable comments or sometimes 'off the wall controversy' where other members join in to defend the OP. Either way, the blog receives much more activity than one without the sock making comments.Trolls are typically members offering only negative or off topic comments for the sheer purpose of disrupting the OP and their blog. You easily can find trolls on political blogs when the topic doesn't agree with their political position.
There may be a crossover with socks and trolls, but I'll simplify it as the difference in a cold or the flu. You could actually experience both at the same time.
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Comments (15)
Yep, we see this all the time here on the blogs. I just use different terminology but it's the same thing.
but I'll simplify it as the difference in a cold or the flu. You could actually experience both at the same time.
Tickles me to watch the games play out the way you described in this blog.
I thought I was being risque when I asked women about them.
I wasnt using them as sockpuppets ,
Sowwy, wong guy...