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The sock puppets are most interesting. Would any be posting here?
by marze 13y ago
The sock puppets are most interesting. Would any be posting here?
- mindcrime 13y agoI don't know, but it's interesting to ponder how one would detect them if they were. I'd love to see a project to scrape HN comments and try to auto-detect the sockpuppet posts. It's a bit scary though, since a false positive on that could really hurt someone's reputation... if I wrote something like that, I'd actually be a little bit reluctant to share it. :-(
- samstave 13y agoWe see them, or what we believe to be them on reddit a lot. Typically, they have a pro-military agenda - often posting "emotional" military pics from accounts that are days old in an attempt to garner a sympathetic response. Other accounts post pro-government comments again from young accounts. We ban them pretty quickly. If you look at a users comment history and they are clearly having an agenda to post - they are either misguided, uninformed or sock-puppets. As a mod of a ~large /r/ I wish I could see the IPs of the people posting. Specifically, if I could see if they are .mil (i.e. Eglin) IPs - so I could ban the whole range.
- jlgreco 13y ago> We see them, or what we believe to be them on reddit a lot. Typically, they have a pro-military agenda - often posting "emotional" military pics from accounts that are days old in an attempt to garner a sympathetic response. So basically the weekly "Check out my dog! He served with me in Afghanistan!" posts on Reddit from hour-old accounts?
- samstave 13y agoYes, those and the accounts that come in attempting to shut down criticism and discussion on other topics where their is clearly a national narrative the MSM is trying to push.
- MisterWebz 13y agoEver thought of making a crowd sourced extension that would target these kinds of accounts? A select few people would have the privilege to tag these accounts, and everyone else using the extension would be able to see the tagged acounts.
- jbooth 13y agoPretty sure HN is under their radar for the most part.
- negativity 13y agoReally? Because I'm not.