puppets

On the issue of sock-puppets, it seems like you can have sock puppets for any issue.

Does asking if a sock-puppet is a sock-puppet hurt HN more than allowing sock-puppets like that to use HN as a platform for hate?

But the point is that wherever the party falls is irrelevant, political parties have been mostly puppets pushing corporatist agendas for quite a while.

But philosophically I think people draw the wrong conclusions from this -- like we're puppets and the brain is some autonomous third agent.

So what if certain things were done just because philosophers just didn't want to consider themselves meat puppets?

Besides, evidence from Twitter suggests that it's demonstrably more often an easily-led mob than hundreds of sock-puppets these days.

They used allies and puppets; England didn't have the sheer manpower it'd take to conquer India alone.

They are actually sad, pathetic people exploited by powerful clerics to be turned into little more than explosive puppets.

From the.gov puppets desperate to find a angle on the debate, to the FBI desperate to counter the tides of technological evolution....

Writing good believable characters is extremely hard; moving stick puppets around (Dan Brown comes to mind) is practicaly the default-state, entry-level of writing.

Well, except for the copy of Master of Puppets that I found for a dollar at Marden's.

I'd love to see a cartoon/puppets show about startups and/or software dev with animals.

Advocated the use of sock-puppets (aka persona mangement) to conduct cognitive infiltration of dissent groups, primarily targeting "conspiracy theorists".

He used the "I come on after puppets making crank phone calls" as an excuse to not have journalistic integrity.

Back in 2000 I worked on a search tool that used such measures to provide (seemingly) more accurate ratings, as well as detect (and reduce the affect of) "voting rings" or "sock puppets".

Ultimately, he had to explain the notion of "honey trap" to me with hand puppets; the breakthrough came when he explained that there were people who, upon trapping some gorgeous local and bringing her back to the hotel room for the night, wouldn't tell everyone they knew as quickly as possible.

We should call them what they are: Sock Puppets.