The term sock puppet refers to multiple pseudonyms in use by the same person on a particular message board or forum.
The analogy of a sock puppet is of a puppeteer holding up both hands and supplying dialogue to both puppets simultaneously.
A typical use of a sock puppet account is to agree with or debate another sock puppet account belonging to the same person, for the purposes of reinforcing the puppeteer's position in an argument.
Sock puppets are usually found when an IP address check is done on the accounts in forums.
The analogy of a sock puppet is of a puppeteer holding up both hands and supplying dialogue to both puppets simultaneously.
A typical use of a sock puppet account is to agree with or debate another sock puppet account belonging to the same person, for the purposes of reinforcing the puppeteer's position in an argument.
Sock puppets are usually found when an IP address check is done on the accounts in forums.
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