sockpuppeting

Finally widespread awareness of sockpuppeting and other means of content curation - no matter who the perpetrator - weakens sockpuppeting as a tactic.

The problem is those self-same authoritarian strongmen are very successfully using sockpuppeting to change national discourses in ways that benefit them and are detrimental to the targeted countries.

You cannot have a decent social space without some form of active moderation and some protection against sockpuppeting.

Basically, an overall clarification about the policies, the technologies and the coded language for reddit's stance on sockpuppeting and content curation.

Quite possibly by the age verification vendors, or some shadier intelligence service sockpuppeting them?

Also, he has a very bizarre history of sockpuppeting that just raises more questions.

I’m shocked when I come across people who think that sockpuppeting doesn’t happen on social media including HN.

Accusing one person of FUD, and then accusing him of sockpuppeting in the same thread, while failing miserably at turing-test level human detection...

Karma earned from new account doesn't count in order to prevent sockpuppeting.

There're only finitely many IDs so scaling sockpuppeting will saturate these IDs quickly but it's quite easy to spin up a new anonymous account.

HN gets a lot less sockpuppeting/astroturfing than reddit or twitter, as far as I can tell.

This is a tech board where anyone can post anonymously, so sockpuppeting and astroturfing are quite common, especially as employees of these companies post here.

If the actual case was "yes, we will allow US sockpuppeting, and forbid Russian/Chinese sockpuppeting", would you actually have expected an honest answer?

The NSA doesn't influence standards by sockpuppeting "no crypto".

Sockpuppeting is not "secret sauce", it's spam.

Ron Paul appears to be "unusually" popular on reddit, digg, slashdot, youtube, myspace, and facebook (where no sockpuppeting should be possible) among other places.