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What do you mean by "this allows for sock puppetry, for whom Scott Adams will forever be the patron saint"



What part of Scott Adams participation in anonymous forums with sock puppets was unclear to you?


I suspect he just didn't know that Scott Adams, back in 2011, was found to be using sock puppets to defend himself on social media sites.


Was that intended to be an example of a low value comment?

The high value response would have been to infer he didn't know the incident you were referring to, and then to explain it to him.


> Was that intended to be an example of a low value comment?

Essentially that is how it ended up. After rewriting it a couple of times from the original link to lmgtfy I probably should have just said to myself "You know, if that was a serious question on his part he would have done a search and known the answer long before I could compose this reply, so just let it sit there." I attribute it to being depressed at the lack of response to the 'Take Action' stuff yesterday which has put a huge damper on my mood today. After this comment I won't say anything more on HN until my mood improves.


I have never heard the term sock puppet used like this, nor have I heard that Scott Adams was doing such a thing.




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