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Public Consultation: Anthrobot/Johnny

Started by RPGPundit, March 05, 2007, 01:22:29 PM

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Abyssal Maw

#45
March 06, 2007, 06:51:22 AM
FIRST they came for the SOCK PUPPETS!!!
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Mr. Analytical

#46
March 06, 2007, 06:57:50 AM
Another board I hang out on has communal sock puppets with names like "GOD" and "The Search Nazi" that people can log into if they want to make a point.

Sock puppetts really aren't an issue.  So someone spends time artificially manufacturing consent around his opinions.  So fucking what?  what do you care what other posters think?

Blackleaf

#47
March 06, 2007, 07:47:09 AM
Quote from: Mr. Analyticalwhat do you care what other posters think?

If you don't care -- then what's the point of posting at all?

I'm guessing Anthrobot isn't the only person using sockpuppets on this site...

JamesV

#48
March 06, 2007, 08:47:39 AM
Quote from: droogHere's my idea. Ban Johnny. Send him an email telling him that he can email one of you guys back to state his case. That'll force the issue, if 'Johnny' really gives a fuck. He should be able to prove it somehow if he really is somebody else.

Meanwhile, watch the forums and if a new guy sounding like Johnny or Anthrobot pops up on the same IP, you've got a pretty good case for banning the new one and keeping Johnny banned. Or even allowing them to exist and mocking the perpetrator (not that it stops Nox).

Long term, it doesn't do any harm and at worst it's an unjust quarantining. You can always unban Johnny, and Anthrobot gets to use his account. You're not banning, just running an experiment. Beating the forest to see what comes out.

Otherwise, just let it run its course and see what happens. Somebody's bound to get sick of logging in and logging out.

I agree with this.
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#49
March 06, 2007, 09:50:08 AM
Quote from: Mr. AnalyticalAnother board I hang out on has communal sock puppets with names like "GOD" and "The Search Nazi" that people can log into if they want to make a point.

That's hilarious. :haw:
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jrients

#50
March 06, 2007, 10:27:44 AM
Quote from: RPGPunditAs far as I know, he put that pic on himself; I certainly didn't give it to him, and if anyone else did, they didn't tell me about it.

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Mcrow

#51
March 06, 2007, 10:49:56 AM
Quote from: jrientsTwasn't I.
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Pseudoephedrine

#52
March 06, 2007, 11:44:55 AM
I don't think we should ban Anthrobot. I do think we should publically mock and humiliate him for having a sock puppet.
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Serious Paul

#53
March 06, 2007, 12:39:45 PM
Quote from: RPGPunditI'm pissed off.

This seems to be the root of everything right here. You're pissed. And a few others. But I have to ask so what? So what this guy rubs you wrong? So what? Sos this guy is a bit of a dick? So what?

Does dude pay the bills round here? Does dude make the majority of posts here? Do you have to reply to him? Do you have to ban him to ignore him?

You seem pretty damn eager to ban someone Pundit. Hell these public consultation threads are amongst the most active. That should say something to you.

Go easy man. You're the public face of this forum, like it or not. Stop making yourself look like an over eager twelve year old dude. This is just a forum, an internet forum. Not a god damned secret agency or a for profit business here.

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#54
March 06, 2007, 12:40:39 PM
Quote from: JongWKThat's hilarious. :haw:

Animal Ball has a couple like that too. No one use them though.

Koltar

#55
March 06, 2007, 03:07:55 PM
I don't know the two posters involved  well enough to say yay or nay either way .Neither one has made much of an impression on me....yet.

  Got an extreme dislike for sock puppets tho - they confuse things and muddy the waters.

 I say ban the sock puppet and warn the "original" not to do it again.

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#56
March 06, 2007, 03:15:11 PM
Its just the opposite, the last thing I want to have to do is ban anyone. Especially for something as stupid as this.

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#57
March 06, 2007, 04:17:02 PM
Quote from: RPGPunditIts just the opposite, the last thing I want to have to do is ban anyone. Especially for something as stupid as this.

Technically, if you ban a sock puppet but not the original account, then you're not really banning "anyone".
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fonkaygarry

#58
March 06, 2007, 05:21:28 PM
He hasn't impacted my enjoyment of rpgsite.  I say let him be for now.
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Spike

#59
March 06, 2007, 08:08:08 PM
I am all for not banning him.  Hell, I'm more or less with Settembrini on these sorts of things.   Banning is the end of the line, the last possible step. Even the damn sock... puppet. Yeah, there is a picture of a sock, it's a puppet...

Is it annoying? Sure.

childish? certainly.

Disruptive? Not so much.  If you want to IL Anthrobot, you will want to IL johnny. Is it really that much work to smack another reader on your 'dumb ass' list?

Of course, I'm biased. I'm the one who started the entire 'are sockpuppets inherently bad' question on some other thread weeks ago.


If you honestly feel you have to do something... ban Johnny and leave it at that.  Shut down the sock puppets and the problem is fixed.
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