Pro-life?
POSTED BY: Niki2
UPDATED: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 15:18
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If Frem had a sock puppet it would be Geezer or someone, and I think if Mike had one, it would be Whozit. Mike had just that jackass quality where he wants to totally prank everyone and then pulls back into rational dialoge, but I can see him going all Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde on us.
I kinda regret not doing it. It would've been fun to fuck with people. I think it's too late for me to do it here, people know my speech patterns too well.
Christ, that WOULD be an awesome idea. There's been plenty enough speculation that KINGEicholz is a sockpuppet, but I have no idea who would have him as one.
Me? I don't have time for sockpuppets. This place takes up enough of my spare time as it is!
I've never really suspected Frem of having one, either - I just find him to be too damn direct. If he wants to say something, he's just going to say it, no pussy-footing around.
Mike
Old friend charity
Cruel twisted smile
And the smile signals emptiness
For me
Starless and Bible black
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Mike,
lol
You would need more to create a character, speech pattern, and knowledge base that a sockpuppet would have, and never slip up.
The archetype sockpuppet here is kaneman, and I think that's the simplest one, but it's not very useful. Kaneman just insulted people, and was always with the caps and obnoxious language, and I think we generally agreed that he *really* was River6213. But it's one of her less artful sockpuppets. I actually think she's good enough to be here right now and for us not to know it, but that it took a fair amount of practice.
Probably one mistake we made for doing it here was revealing too much of ourselves. If we were deliberately doing it, we could probably subdivide our experience and knowledgebase into separate personalities. I'm simultaneously a taoist herbalist tomato farmer historian who can write a mean hacker program. You and Frem could have similar lists that you've displayed here. If we were to raid some other forum, I could definitely divide myself into, say, a conservative rural farmer from kentucky, and a gamer geek from NY who can recite monty python, etc.
The more I think about this, the more it sounds like it would be fun to invade something like dailykos and fuck with people. Probably start with something smaller 
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You would need more to create a character, speech pattern, and knowledge base that a sockpuppet would have, and never slip up.
See, I could create the character, no doubt, and a knowledge base wouldn't be a problem - but staying AWAY from certain knowledge bases for me WOULD be a problem, because it just seeps in. And the language, vocabulary, and speech patterns would be pretty hard for me to step away from. It would definitely take more conscious energy than I'm willing to put into it. And the never slipping up part would be the killer - I log on without even looking at the screen, my ID and password are so intrinsic to me. Trying to remember to use different ones, and NEVER get it wrong, would be my downfall, I'm sure.
I like your idea of invading another place with an army of sockpuppets, though. I think I'll hit Fox, or some of the hard-right forums! :)
Mike
Old friend charity
Cruel twisted smile
And the smile signals emptiness
For me
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Fox is a good call. We should conspire to attack something smaller though. Prepare for something like fox.
;) A little social experiment in fucking with people.
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Originally posted by Kwicko:
I've never really suspected Frem of having one, either - I just find him to be too damn direct. If he wants to say something, he's just going to say it, no pussy-footing around.
Ayeh, I have been called the verbal equivalent of a Komatsu D575A-3 a couple times, and it weren't meant as a compliment.
If yer gonna try this stunt though, stay away from my right wing lemming hordes, ok - cause fouling my efforts to march em off the cliff so they land on stuff needin broken anyway would seriously piss me off.
-F
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Originally posted by dreamtrove:
Fox is a good call. We should conspire to attack something smaller though. Prepare for something like fox.
;) A little social experiment in fucking with people.
Color me paranoid, DT, but I'm not agreeing to ANY kind of attack on FauxNews or anywhere else. I'll not condone it, either. Which isn't to say I wouldn't giggle my freakin' ass off if someone else were to do so...
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Originally posted by Kwicko:
I've never really suspected Frem of having one, either - I just find him to be too damn direct. If he wants to say something, he's just going to say it, no pussy-footing around.
Ayeh, I have been called the verbal equivalent of a Komatsu D575A-3 a couple times, and it weren't meant as a compliment.
Might not have been MEANT as a compliment, but I bet you took it as one, eh?
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If yer gonna try this stunt though, stay away from my right wing lemming hordes, ok - cause fouling my efforts to march em off the cliff so they land on stuff needin broken anyway would seriously piss me off.
-F
You've got a free-fire zone; I'll stay clear. Happy hunting!
Mike
Old friend charity
Cruel twisted smile
And the smile signals emptiness
For me
Starless and Bible black
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Mike
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Originally posted by dreamtrove:
Mike
Blame it on the times we live in. I choose my words carefully for a reason, and I'm not real big on condoning or agreeing to participate in anything that could even REMOTELY be viewed by law enforcement as any kind of terrorist enterprise.
Used to be that my trust was something that was almost automatic, there to be lost; nowadays, it has to be EARNED, and it doesn't come easy or unconditionally. Once you start having political discussions and taking stances that aren't "career-friendly", you're going to start running into people who will absolutely start angling to walk you into a wall or off a cliff.
Like I said, color me paranoid, but I've had some real-world experiences which leave me room to be. As Frem says, it's always about the shoes. ;)
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Originally posted by Bytemite:
Hehe, I bet I know who else DT suspects is Frem's sockpuppet. Not too many ways I can prove otherwise, though, we do agree on quite a number of things. It's almost not worth it for me to respond on the RWED, 'cause Frem's just going to come in better informed with links and references instead of my intuition and various if-then conclusions.Quote:
Byte,
In addition to the moral issue there's the ZPG angle: Who is influencing the growth or lack there of in which population. This is where policy can be a special manipulative evil.
Well, I kind of consider that a moral issue in of itself. Abuse of power is kind of a no-no. But, it happens/ is happening.
Sorry about my previous post, it was not "tweet" sized.
I never would have suspected you of being Frem.
I've heard that I am 4 or 5 other people, but can't bother to keep track of who they are. One of them I consider a compliment. Is kingelbert chrisisall?
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