Today's sniping

Interesting convo in the comments on today’s LTEs..... I'll leave it to you to decide who won. (I'll also leave it to you to figure out which comments were deleted! LOL)

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dave34104 wrote on 05/24/2010 04:29:29 PM:
I just looked at the most recommended comments and they all seem to be from the right wing and seem to have close to the same number of votes...any reason for that?

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MrMustard wrote on 05/24/2010 04:35:59 PM:
It's one of those damned right-wing conspiracies

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cedar wrote on 05/24/2010 04:51:00 PM:
>dave34104 wrote on 05/24/2010 04:29:29 PM:<

The Constitution was just interpreted to mean that SondraK's sock puppets can vote by pushing the Recommend button.

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ALocalGuy wrote on 05/24/2010 05:08:28 PM:
Who is SondraK, and who are the sock puppets?

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ENGEL wrote on 05/24/2010 05:26:52 PM:
Oh yay. This never gets old.

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Anonymous98501 wrote on 05/24/2010 05:29:00 PM:
>dave34104 wrote on 05/24/2010 04:29:29 PM:<

Gee, dave, I'm sure you'll figure it out if you think really hard. Bwahahahahah!

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ALocalGuy wrote on 05/24/2010 05:49:53 PM:
So is Dave34104 describing assumed identities, multiple identities, or some combination of both?

On this site? Why would anyone bother?

And who are the sock puppets? Which identities are real, and which fictional?

Has anyone actually confirmed this behavior?

This seems very strange to me, and again, for what purpose would someone create or manage multiple identities?

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cedar wrote on 05/24/2010 06:05:21 PM:
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>ALocalGuy wrote on 05/24/2010 05:08:28 PM:<

SondraK has a long history here of using different, shall we say, "stage names," and having them post here in rapid succession. Another tactic she uses is to make a series of short statements in a succession of posts, thereby pushing other commenters off the page. SondraK is in love with Ayn Rand, at least figuratively (since Rand is dead and has gone to the place where atheists go after death).

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cedar wrote on 05/24/2010 06:24:07 PM:
Note in my comment just below that sock puppets can collectively press the "report abuse" button to have a post removed. This tactic has also been used repeatedly.

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ENGEL wrote on 05/24/2010 06:26:54 PM:
ALocalGuy, what you really need to be asking is why would someone care so much about something so juvenile to fabricate such an intricate story and then go on and on and on and on and on and on and on... For years.

This is how *I* know who the psychotic ones are.

When they trot out this crap you know any chance of a rational comment thread is long gone.

It's the Godwin's Law of the Olympian comments section.

Carry on.......

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cedar wrote on 05/24/2010 06:32:35 PM:
ENGEL: Do you admit that you have also posted under the names SondraK, John Galt, Ayn Rand, and many others, or do all those names belong to different extreme conservatives who all parrot the same ideas using the same writing style, like sheep? Why is it necessary to change your name? My posting name (for better or worse, LOL) has been the same for years.

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