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Originally Posted by 0313H3
Grover Cleveland is an AE sock puppet, but that was funny.
Nychot, you might have a point, but this is earth. It works by a certain set of rules, they don't change much, I would suggest you accept them and adapt.  |
L.A. Times Columnist Michael Hiltzik, who was forced to give up his column and Times blog in April 2006 when it was revealed that he was anonymously posting under the "sock puppet" name of "Mikekoshi", and possibly "Nofanofcablecos", to attack those critical of his writings.[2] He did this both on the blogs of his critics, and even on his own blog in response to hostile commenters.
John Lott, author of More Guns, Less Crime, who, between 2000 and 2003, posted under the "sock puppet" name of "Mary Rosh"[3], praising Lott's teaching, and arguing with Lott's critics on Usenet. The name was also used to post outstanding reviews of his books, and panning books of rivals on online book sites. Lott admitted he had frequently used the name "Mary Rosh" to defend himself, but claimed the book reviews by "Mary Rosh" were written by his son and wife.
Lee Siegel, writer for The New Republic magazine, was suspended for defending his articles and blog comments using the user name "sprezzatura".[4]
Cyrus Nowrasteh, screenwriter for The Path to 9/11, was identified as having created a sock puppet on internet movie website IMDB to post a rave review of an obscure film he had made that did not have a distributor or video/DVD release. The sock puppet was named "ysteb" - the name of his wife Betsy spelled backwards. [5] [6]
Brian Krebs, writer for the washingtonpost.com, was identified as posing as an anonymous commentator on a website criticizing his coverage of the "Hijack a MacBook in 60 Seconds" story [7]
as i said he's a total azzhole