Sentences with phrase «by sock puppets»

They claim this is because their TOS guidelines ban reviewing by a «competitor,» and this protects against attacks on rivals by sock puppets.

Readers are looking for something to help separate the good from the bad and, yes, they know if reviews are posted by sock puppets and challenge those reviews.

Not exact matches

Cynics will say he's just another sock puppet manipulated by the PMO.

But a new tool can spot «sock puppets»: multiple accounts run by a single user.

Apparently, according to you, it is okay to be messaged by the author and her sock puppets.

And go tthem banned by accusing them to be sock puppets — which they later turned out not to be.

Yet another totally biased attack on indies by a sock - puppet of traditional publishing.

All I can think is that this is some sort of misguided attempt by Amazon to try and remedy some of the abuses that came to light in the recent sock puppet debacle (and if you missed all that drama, here's a link to catch you up).

We think of sock - puppet reviews as those written by someone using multiple accounts set up under false names for the purposes of generating numerous positive reviews of his own work, or scathing reviews of a competitor's work.

It's a violation of the Terms of Service to attempt to artificially inflate a book's review rankings by creating sock puppet accounts to leave fake reviews, or hiring or bartering with others to do the same.

Traditional publishers» self - publishing clueless - to - date is illustrated by Pearson / Penguin's acquisition of Author Solutions, and the many publishers that have since invited the ASI sock puppet foxes to enter their hen houses under the guise of powering their assisted publishing imprints).

The paid review and sock - puppet review scandals that rocked Amazon this summer after revelations by Locke — and an embarrassing number of others — have resulted in a draconian crackdown on all Amazon reviews.

[DB] Steven Foster was a sock - puppet, fake user ID deployed by the departed Morgan Wright.

A DeSmog investigation has revealed the possibility that a front group supporting the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL)-- the Midwest Alliance for Infrastructure Now (MAIN)-- may have created fake Twitter profiles, known by some as «sock puppets,» to convey a pro-pipeline message over social media.

Other attempts of intimidation have involved the solicitation of potentially compromising information from the first author by a non-existent internet «sock puppet» whose unknown creators pretended to be victimized by climate deniers — and who then splattered the private correspondence on the internet (Lewandowsky, 2011).

It would be inadvisable to confuse the two, like when sock puppets are overused and tolerated by blog curators.

(The sock puppet earns bonus points if those same scientists also get to slur the whistleblower and skeptics with unsubstantiated implications that «they are funded by fossil fuels».)