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.
Not exact matches
You pretend you're this exemplary Christian
who follows the teachings of Jesus, and proceed to spew your venom everywhere about all the people you hate, then wish your
sock puppet a Merry Christmas.
This evil
sock puppet must laugh himself to sleep at night over all the fools
who worship his putrid stink..
sock puppet — do you mean the «sweetheart» deals that the OGS Commissioner (
Who worked for Daddy Cuomo), said give below market rents and that he's a good landlord, who also pays taxes on his buildin
Who worked for Daddy Cuomo), said give below market rents and that he's a good landlord,
who also pays taxes on his buildin
who also pays taxes on his buildings?
They boast the games best, silliest ideas (a painter
who draws new monsters, a killer ear of corn, a flame - spitting head that's teamed up with a
sock puppet) but doesn't milk them dry.
Reading a section of dialogue with
sock puppets is a fun way to explore
who is speaking to whom,
who has power in a scene and
who is silent.
It is totally alright for you and your
sock puppets to release PERSONAL information pertaining to anyone
who rated your crap less than 2 stars.
Like that thriller writer
who wrote himself 100s of
sock -
puppet reviews.
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.
There is only one SkS user with «bob» prefacing their user name that is banned from this venue and that is user «Bob Smith»,
who had his commenting privileges revoked for being a
sock puppet of yet another SkS user.
(Those
who never reply often are
sock puppet userids; the page owner can see at least when the same IP address is repeating the same thing under multiple names.)
Steve and others, WARNING, «jjthom» seems to be another
sock puppet of a certain person,
who has been posting a long time also to CA with his original well known nick name.
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.
... Boretti has acted as a
sock -
puppet for Parker (hat - tip DeSmogBlog
who got no sense from Parker when they asked him abot the two names).
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).
At the same time according to his user talk page, it appears he is banning any skeptic
who is posting more information as a «
sock puppet» of some other previously banned skeptic.