Sock Puppets in the Hands of an Angry God

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Kathleen has been much more diligent in cleaning out sock puppet commenters than I have been; and she usually gets to them first. This is, on the whole, a good thing as she is much nicer than I am. But rest assured, if I find sock puppets commenting before any other admin does, woe be unto them, the day of wrath is come and their foot shall slip in due time.

“There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hëll, but the mere pleasure of God.“

Now go see if that groundhog sees his shadow or not. Won’t affect what I do, of course.

15 comments on “Sock Puppets in the Hands of an Angry God”

  1. I don’t think I like the tone of this blog post.

    I think you are being discrim, discrimin, dis, not very nice to us sock puppets! Feh.

  3. .
    Wow.
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    First a post by Kath and now a post with a much more strident tone from Glenn (or at least the email notification said it was Glenn.)
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    With the relatively small number of posters I see here on any given thread, is it really becoming such an issue of late? It honestly wouldn’t surprise me if BigSoph were Darin due to the writing style and statements of both, but beyond that I have no clue who else here would be a sock puppet account. Is it really becoming that bad of an issue?

    1. Jerry-
      It only recently became a real PITA. Before that I just dealt with it. You would be amazed at all the stuff we have to deal with to keep the site clean and pleasant. Usually these things go in waves but I wanted to nip this one in the bud.
      Kath

      1. Having gone through this recently on another blogging site*, it sometimes just takes saying the right (or wrong) thing to set somebody off.
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        *This other site was much like this one, in that anybody could post anonymously with a name and an e-mail. However, it wasn’t really being moderated to make sure that names and e-mails matched, so a troll decided to spoof my name until it was pointed out to the owner of the blog and he put a stop to it by requiring some level of registration.
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        And yes, I can hear it now: “Craig causing trouble? Perish the thought!” I have a bad habit of pointing out real trolls when I see them. 🙂
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        Here, though, it just sounds like somebody doesn’t like being outnumbered.

    2. This site gets over 1000 spam comments a day. We have filters that catch most of them, and I’m frankly getting a bit tired of cleaning them out on a regular basis, not to mention the server performance hit. And that’s BEFORE any sock puppetry.

      1. .
        Since I have no idea what a “server performance hit” is, I’ll just assume it’s not fun to deal with.

      2. Basically, it makes the web site run slower, and in extreme cases causes it to be knocked offline and require a reboot. Usually, of course, the alerts come in at 2 AM and wake me up.

      3. That would explain the site being all but inaccessible some evenings about 1am Eastern time.

      4. .
        Yeah, I noticed that as well. I just thought that there was maintenance being done of the site now from about 0100 to 0200 (give or take) as a matter of course these days. It was becoming so regular an occurrence that it I assumed it was intentional at this point.
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        Yeah, Glenn, I can see where that would be a major pain in the butt for you.

  4. This post makes Gitmo sad. First Gitmo locked away in prison without trial, and now Gitmo’s not allowed to write to American comic book writer.

    Bad enough Gitmo spend most of his time with Jon Stewart’s hand in uncomfortable place…

  6. For those of you who might not otherwise be able to tell:

    YOU MIGHT BE A SOCK PUPPET IF:

    1) There’s a hand sticking out of you from a very uncomfortable place.
    2) Everything tastes like cotton.
    3) Your mouth is always dry.
    4) In the lack of support, you just sorta lie there.
    5) PAD keeps deleting your comments.
    6) Your nose smells like a foot.

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