The phrase
"sock puppet" refers to someone pretending to be a different person online. It means creating a fake identity to deceive or manipulate others on the internet.
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Peer reviews seem like an obvious solution, but a string
of sock puppet scandals last year has shown that reviews are not always trustworthy.
None of us want to return to the days of rampant
sock puppet reviews — or at least we shouldn't.
While a home -
made sock puppet may not appeal to the 16 - year - old on your list, there are green gift options that teens and adult recipients will enjoy.
If you want to worship yourself have at it, but don't expect others to be your
personal sock puppet.
When the South African artist Tracey Rose was invited to be on a panel accompanying the opening of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, she performed a dialogue
with sock puppets in which she attacked the center, the event and its organizers.
I'm tired of authors acting as
sock puppets for their publishers, especially with regard to the DoJ law suit and the proposed settlement.
Today, MobileRead issued the following statement «We're a bit heavy - hearted to report the news, but recently it was discovered by one of our vigilant members that someone, or several people, employed by, or affiliated with, Ectaco used
sock puppets in our forums.
Just like before, you can still enjoy the old - fashioned pleasure of creating simple toys from scratch such
as sock puppets, paper dolls, cardboard forts, blanket tents, paper beads, balance boards and painted rocks.
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.
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 puppet accounts to promote his work — creating fake... more >
One planned lesson let students use an app
called Sock Puppet — with which students record their voices to build mini-conversations between digital puppets — to create and compare examples of conversations involving disagreement.
K sorry that's it, no firm answer from you just crap, and, rederick, talk
about sock puppet.
When she took up weaving, her circle included such important textile artists as Lenore Tawney and Mary Walker Phillips (she also worked with Shari Lewis to
create sock puppets for the latter's popular children's tv show).
To prepare for the big day, the Dental Assistant students worked hard to make fun and creative
sock puppet characters.
Amazon has also had a number problems with reviews on its own site, ranging
from sock puppet reviews (designed to boost rankings of an author's own books or bombard a competitor's books with negative reviews) to arbitrary removal of reviews — if, for instance, the reviewer recieved a copy of the book from the author.
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).
That's rich coming from a guy who phoned in his Steyn review with nothing to back him up but an ugly
misogynist sock puppet.
You can simply encourage the child to make their own
socks puppets which they can take to the home and play with it.
Registering as a toilet - training session in hilarity for third graders, yet demonstrating a subversive streak of satirical overtones for the mature masses Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie will be sure to plant a permanent smirk on the faces of countless viewers that may get an infectious kick out of celebrating live -
action sock puppets and other random potty humor talking points.
I've created a
few sock puppets in my day, but what Jim Henson did was so much more.
Almost any author who is trying to sell books these days has run into the trolls and
sock puppets who seem to spend their days leaving nasty or idiotic reviews (for books they obviously haven't read) for no particular purpose except to wield the power they probably don't have in their real lives.
He has authored a number of publications
including Sock Puppets, Euro Puppets, The Proof of the Pudding, The Crack Cocaine of Gambling and Free Market Solutions in Health.
This
evil sock puppet must laugh himself to sleep at night over all the fools who worship his putrid stink..
(Currently we have been watching the farm video in Spanish; Paolo loves the
cow sock puppet.
You're now using about a half
dozen sock puppets to promote your one and only topic, Carl Paladino.
Carl never sought to please, or to ingratiate himself with the politically correct elite & their main stream
media sock puppets; His attitude is always in your face take it or leave it telling it like it is.
Panepinto is
NYSUTS sock puppet, typical of the scum that rises to the top in Erie County Dem politics.
Hey sock puppet, Pataki got elected three times starting by beating the father Cuomo, who is the one who took the state into the toilet.
The US Digital Service arrives; what hashtag activism is really good for; unmasking some
anti-net-neutrality sock puppets; new voting technology advances; and much, much more.
So we can't immediately say if policy contiguity is due to one monster with two
sock puppet hands.
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