Sock Puppet 101 (humor)

[Whitney]

The Cheater's Guide to Winning Online Arguments
(or more clearly, how insane people use sock puppets)

Let's say you're having a conversation with some guy in a chat room. You're talking about something totally innocuous, like let's say, your favorite homemade enema recipes. But throughout this entire conversation, you've got no way of knowing whether you're talking to some old dude in a basement or a Tibetan monk or a room of third graders learning computer skills. This is just basic Internet anonymity, and we're usually pretty comfortable with it. And indeed, about 95 percent of the Internet hinges upon it. But what if you're talking with someone you already know, who's hiding their identity? That feels a little weird, doesn't it? Is this person using a second persona -- called a sock puppet -- to further some secret agenda of theirs? There's something a bit seedy about that. It's an act we're much less likely to condone.

"Wait," I hear you saying. "I have agendas! And I don't have any sock puppets at all! Help me Bucholz! Please, help show me what sock puppets can be used for, and also, if you can, please use this staged dialog to segue neatly into the body of your column."

Well. All right. Since you asked so nicely ...

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[The Magic Pudding]

I discontinued my sock puppet program when the kudos system was abandoned.
If the forum was a democracy and the opportunity for a puppet led revolution existed, I might have kept at it.
Anyway the article does present some interesting possibilities, I may have to reconsider.

[Asmodean]

I discontinued my sock puppet program when the kudos system was abandoned.

I just did what politicians do and pulled the funding plug on mine when its usefulness ran out 

[Tank]

Has nobody else here spotted than TMP is a sock puppet of Asmodean! It's sooooo obvious. I am a sock puppet of Cecile.

[Davin]

I am a sock puppet's sock puppet account.

[Asmodean]

I am a sock puppet's sock puppet account.

Uh-huh... And that sock on your hand..? Is that for puppeteering or... The other thing?  

[The Magic Pudding]

Has nobody else here spotted than TMP is a sock puppet of Asmodean! It's sooooo obvious. I am a sock puppet of Cecile.

I am a sock puppet's sock puppet account.

Uh-huh... And that sock on your hand..? Is that for puppeteering or... The other thing?  

Another biting and incisive question Mr Asmodean.
How do you so cleverly express the questions we are all thinking before we think them?

[Davin]

I am a sock puppet's sock puppet account.

Uh-huh... And that sock on your hand..? Is that for puppeteering or... The other thing?  

Both.

[Asmodean]

Another biting and incisive question Mr Asmodean.
How do you so cleverly express the questions we are all thinking before we think them?

I had an "I just HAVE TO" moment 

[Cecilie]

Has nobody else here spotted than TMP is a sock puppet of Asmodean! It's sooooo obvious. I am a sock puppet of Cecile.

Who is this Cecile?

[Tank]

Has nobody else here spotted than TMP is a sock puppet of Asmodean! It's sooooo obvious. I am a sock puppet of Cecile.

Who is this Cecile?

The sister of Cecilie, but she only has one eye