How does that compare with making a sock
puppet account or paying a review service?
You'll also notice a few first name «guest» accounts such as Sofia & Danika, these accounts don't really exist, they are BookRiot - er sock
puppet accounts.
And I bet most of those 20million users are inactive or sock
puppet accounts that are a byproduct of the bullies and those trying to combat the bullies.
Amazing photos 2012 Our world is amazing Imgur Harrogate / tossergate — «Because nowhere in Stephen's blogpost does he mention the moment on the panel that really caused the audience to gasp: his casual and unashamed admission that he uses sock
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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.
Not exact matches
On whether he used «sock
puppets» to flood the AMA itself with supportive commenters (one Reddit member identified 26
accounts he thought were suspect):
He also took into
account the primary animation tool utilized for in each movie, for example, cel animation, computer animation, motion capture, and clay or
puppet animation.
Another tool can distinguish between a regular
account and a sock
puppet with 68 per cent accuracy.
But a new tool can spot «sock
puppets»: multiple
accounts run by a single user.
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.
The sock
puppet crap is really what annoys me, some get people with 40K amazon
accounts to buy and review 1000 times over and then buy competitors and post negative reviews.
During the panel, Leather revealed that he uses «sock
puppet»
accounts.
Jeremy Duns, a British author of spy novels and a journalist who now lives in Sweden, began investigating Leather and turned up two of his «sock
puppet»
accounts, one of which belonged to a real self - published author named Steve Roach.
Farmer uses movement, sound, animation,
puppet characters, and a panoply of highly choreographed bodies and characters to investigate world history from the different angles of its photographic and sculptural
accounts.
Muppets are almost always left handed; this is on
account of the fact that the puppeteers that control them use their dominant hand (usually right) to control the head of the
puppet and their non-dominant hand (usually left) to control the wand which moves the muppet's hand.