Is sockpuppeting ok now??

[Scirocco]

My understanding was that it was against guidelines, but blatant and admitted sockpuppetry, which has actually caused distress to other posters, has been happening with no intervention, across multiple threads. Is this considered ok now?

Interesting. Against guidelines, I thought. Haven't seen the threads you're referring to though.

Surely it’s harder to do now, as you default to whichever your previous username on a particular thread is?

That's what I thought FishStreet, in fact i was just laughing about it on another thread

Unless they’ve changed it, I don’t think it does default on the app, so posters can still name change on threads. Also people can have multiple accounts.

I’ve not seen the threads OP means where posters have admitted to it, but I think it’s done quite a lot and not admitted to.

Have you reported it OP?

It's been reported.

There’s probably not many/any staff on as it’s late so reports might not get seen til tomorrow.

You can report it on the night watch board, they’re usually pretty quick to act when it’s late or overnight.

What is this about?

I have suspected sock puppets, but haven't seen a one admitting to it?!

Just testing changing name

I could over write to change name

Hi all,

Sockpuppeting is against talk guidelines and if we find it on a thread, we can assure you it will be dealt with.

Something we do is email posters off the boards to resolve something - it depends on someone's intentions. That won't necessarily be obvious on the boards when you're reading a thread.

If you think we've missed something, please report it to us and we can take another look or let you know how we dealt with it.