Sockpuppet

Sorry, I have no idea what your sockpuppet is trying to say there. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A sockpuppet is when a blogger creates a fake blogging identity to smear his critics or detractors or to boost his own image but in the appearance. ❋ Xtra (2007)

The intarwebs use the word sockpuppet to mean someone who has created a character for the purpose of supporting his or her arguments by pretending to be someone else. ❋ Maryrobinette (2008)

You won’t be back under that sockpuppet is what you’re saying. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I’ve long since lost any interest in which sockpuppet is which. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Ah, Koldy’s latest sockpuppet is still playing games like a child while the adult world goes on around her … How predictable … ZZzzz … ❋ Unknown (2010)

Yeah, but then he created that Jeremy M. Whassisname sockpuppet account so he could claim to be a doctor again. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Here is article at the NY Times about what a sockpuppet is and specifically about the use of one by Lee Siegel over at the New Republic (the story isn't terribly relevant at this point). ❋ Xtra (2007)

He may not have been familiar with the term, but Figes was acting as a "sockpuppet". ❋ Unknown (2011)

Deciding to fight fire-with-fire, the Chinese government has been known to utilize variety of web-based tools in to shape online public opinion, including flooding popular communities with pro-Chinese opinions and creating hundreds of thousands of fake "sockpuppet" accounts in order to skew perceived opinion on any given subject on both Chinese and Foreign websites. ❋ Gilliam Collinsworth Hamilton (2010)

But even though I think he's an execrable pig, he could "sockpuppet" my whatever anytime he wanted as well. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

As a relative amateur with regard to blogging, I was intrigued to discover the term "sockpuppet" in Deborah Solomon's interview in the Sunday Times Magaine with Lee Siegel concerning his fall from grace at the New Republic for blogging under a false name and praising his own work and attacking his detractors. ❋ Unknown (2006)

But then, titus20 isn't any more convincing as a "true conservative" than is, say Glenn "sockpuppet" Greenwald or Andrew "sisters of the perpetually aggrieved" Sullivan. ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)

And if you're a troll, I suppose you'll move a step up the food chain to "sockpuppet" instead. ❋ Hth_the_first (2007)

I'm getting a little tired of the "sockpuppet" line. ❋ Unknown (2006)

She brought in [six] friends [to back] up her story, but five of them [turned out] to be sockpuppets. ❋ Manon (2004)

This new [user] sounds [strangely familiar]. That's because he's actually a sockpuppet for that asshole we [banned] last week. ❋ Mr. Vektor (2010)

our [governor] is a sockpuppet with [no mind] of his own and allows other people in his party to make all of the [decisions] ❋ Littlejimmie (2019)

After the mods on SJG let Paladin and [Koltar] flame democrats and liberals, then banned me for speaking against republicans and conservatives, I went through a [proxy] to sockpuppet back in since it was bullshit [to ban someone] for attacking conservatives but not for attacking liberals. ❋ Professor Tanhauser (2011)

He said he couldnt post last night because he was out with [his girlfriend], but [we know] he was just [getting busy] with sockpuppet. ❋ Lemiwinks31 (2009)

[Yeah] i [used] [that bitch] as my sockpuppet! ❋ Mofo (2003)

Me: Remember Lisa [from accounting]? [Co-worker]: Yeah, what about her? Me: We hooked up last night and I used her as a [sockpuppet]. Co-worker: Hell yeah man I knew she was easy! ❋ Boominyourface (2021)

Jim: Last night, I [fisted] Emma so deep that I could control her like a [sock puppet]. Matt: [Sockpuppeting] sounds gross. ❋ Brawbag (2016)

I found a [sockpuppet] in [the laundry] last night. I don't think it was [mine]. ❋ TheHamm (2018)

I [surprised] [Jesse] [with that] indian sockpuppet last night. ❋ MrHobbit (2009)