[ SECRET POST #5800 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5800 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

See, this is the kind of secret I don't believe without proof. "OP was this incredible mastermind who will never be discovered ..." Sure.

And really, do you think sockpuppeting is good? Is that something you want in your fandoms? I put that behavior on about the same social level as the people who pretended to kill themselves to their online contacts.

[(Anonymous)]

That's a bit extreme, without knowing what the OP actually used their sockpuppets for.

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AYRT

I'm basing my opinion on the sorts of things I've seen sockpuppeting used for.

[(Anonymous)]

Pretending to have killed yourself (or people who fake having cancer etc) is a pretty severe thing, imo. I guess I'm curious what terrible sockpuppet use you've encountered that was on that kind of level!

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Not sockpuppet, singular. Sockpuppets in complex groups, like what the OP is describing. Very small number of people behind what looks like a large crowd, amplifying whatever opinions they happen to hold at will. Playing out dynamics amongst themselves, in public, with a predetermined outcome to who wins this or that argument and who winds up looking bad to observers. And then there's the overlap between sockpuppeting and social mobbing.

[(Anonymous)]

+10000

I don't think sockpuppets are a good thing.

[rosehiptea]

It’s been a while but the way I remember it there were a lot of sockpuppets back in the day and people kind of took it for granted that a lot of people were going around agreeing with their own posts and stuff like that. Not saying it was always harmless but I can believe the OP never did anything too bad. Whether I believe an anonymous Internet person was a sock puppet mastermind… don’t know.

[(Anonymous)]

I put that behavior on about the same social level as the people who pretended to kill themselves to their online contacts.

Well this is a terrible take. IDK if you think all people with sock puppet accounts used them to organize harassment campaigns or something, but uh, most sock-puppet shenanigans were a hell of a lot more innocuous than that.

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[(Anonymous)]

+1

I think people on here enjoy making the worst possible assumptions about other people.

DA

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

If you're writing positive reviews for your own fanfics, I probably don't have a problem with that. But the bigger and more complex the trying to deceive other people part gets, the more unethical I find sockpuppets.

[(Anonymous)]

They said they had a complex and extensive *army*. I'm having a hard time imagining what kind of innocent fun requires that level of organization. Can you give an example?