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WHS.Originally posted by TykeMerc View PostI'd quite like to see all the sockpuppet accounts banned and their owners suspended for a week or so. Admittedly 90% of the regular posters would disappear for a week, but it would at least improve the signal to noise ratio by a large margin.
I've never understood the obsession some people have for creating sockpuppet ID's as they are rarely amusing to anyone other than the trolling owner.
I'd like to see them taxed.
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I'd quite like to see all the sockpuppet accounts banned and their owners suspended for a week or so. Admittedly 90% of the regular posters would disappear for a week, but it would at least improve the signal to noise ratio by a large margin.
I've never understood the obsession some people have for creating sockpuppet ID's as they are rarely amusing to anyone other than the trolling owner.
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Nah, Spartacus is the only one where we can actually say we know who all his puppets areOriginally posted by zeitghostAnd what about Spartacus?
This could get a little confusing...
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Thats the oneOriginally posted by zeitghostThe one that just went "wibble"?
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What, testing if an AI can pass as human? How does that apply to a human pretending to be a different human? Especially when some of the puppet-masters probably couldn't pass in the first place.Originally posted by sasguru View PostJeez the youth of today. Have you heard of the Turing test?
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I was thinking that the third party would be one of the Admins.Originally posted by d000hg View PostI reckon there must be a formally provable way to do it... but I have no idea what it would be. It has to prevent a member using their puppets to pose as 3rd parties apart from anything else.
Does anyone have a background in this type of stuff - I guess it's some branch of logic/maths?
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