Sockpuppet speculation

[BroDeal]

It really blows me away that this forum software has no decent tools to extract these sockpuppets, most other forum software has this by default or no one has the tools or knowledge or permissions to access said data, its there. Pretty sad.

It requires a competent administrator...or at least one who is willing to learn.

The admin should be asking Dim a lot of questions.

 

[ElChingon]

It requires a competent administrator...or at least one who is willing to learn.

The admin should be asking Dim a lot of questions.

Yea, then everyone would know the admin's home address

 

[Anonymous]

It requires a competent administrator...or at least one who is willing to learn.

The admin should be asking Dim a lot of questions.

but then they'd find mine..

 

[Fetisoff]

but then they'd find mine..

Let me guess - "The Hitch"?

And i can't keep mine to myself anymore, it's just killing me. My sockpuppet is... none other.... than joe_papp. Here... I feel so much better now

 

[will10]

OK, so "The Boss" is another GIBO SIMONI, yes?

 

[Parrulo]

OK, so "The Boss" is another GIBO SIMONI, yes?

indeed he is, exactly the same ip. . .

i don't have banning powers tho

 

[The Hitch]

Such a shame. I was looking forward to the dutchies go at him for the "nibali will always be a cut above Gesink" comment.

 

[ElChingon]

indeed he is, exactly the same ip. . .

i don't have banning powers tho

Don't give away your secrets.

 

[Fetisoff]

indeed he is, exactly the same ip. . .

I guess if nothing else, he's really lazy too

 

[DominicDecoco]

Anyway Ill throw another one out there.

Dominic de coco used to go under the name Thomsena - with the cycling is life avatar.

Took me a while to figure it out but I got there.

Clue 1, in Dominic's first couple of posts he acted as if he had been here the whole time, commenting to other posters that they always behave that way. I pmd him asking who he was, no asnwer.

Clue 2. Dominic decoco is a Danish fan who hates the clinic. Thomsena (who hails from Jutland) made a thread in the clinic mocking clinic posters for being anti fans

Clue 3. Dominic decoco registered and made his first post, on the same day - 16th february, as Thomsena made his last post.

Clue 4, they appear in the same threads and same discussions.

Edit: just realised Thomsena's account has been terminated. It was there yesterday. May be cos i revealed this information on velorooms yesterday. Seems a mod took my word for it.

Anyway Adam, youve been unmasked, and the thread has its first confirmed kill.

Well, you are quite right, Mr Sherlock. But there's not really any drama behind it. I wanted a new name to my account but had no idea that could be done though asking a mod. So I just made up a new account, palmerq then said within few hours that he could just have changed it in a second.

I actually thought I had answered your message since I remember seeing it. Apparently not.
So, nothing to do with wanting a new account or pretending to be someone else which is also why you eventually figured out it was me.

Btw, I have nothing to with the last account being deleted. It's not until now I've seen your post and I'm no user of Velorooms. Actually, I had no idea it existed. One forum is more than enough for me anyway.

 

[Mr.DNA]

I wish the board had a feature to automatically ignore anyone who registered within the last two months. As far as I can tell they're all "sockpuppets."

 

[Christian]

I wish the board had a feature to automatically ignore anyone who registered within the last two months. As far as I can tell they're all "sockpuppets."

the only members i truly acknowledge and respect are my fellow "elders" a.k.a. "the 309 mafia", all others are just posers

 

[Parrulo]

the only members i truly acknowledge and respect are my fellow "elders" a.k.a. "the 309 mafia", all others are just posers

"810" representin

 

[Fetisoff]

"810" representin

111 in da house!!

 

[Havetts]

111 in da house!!

111 represent!

 

[BroDeal]

I wish the board had a feature to automatically ignore anyone who registered within the last two months. As far as I can tell they're all "sockpuppets."

Between that and all the stupid appreciation/depreciation threads, this place has spiraled down the crapper.

 

[180mmCrank]

Between that and all the stupid appreciation/depreciation threads, this place has spiraled down the crapper.

Even I know when I am doing the "grumpy old man thing" - the "it was different in my day!"

It's not that bad. AND yes I agree about the multiple appreciation/depreciation threads they are tiresome.

Bring back BPC ?!

T

 

[BroDeal]

Bring back BPC ?!

I think that he is already here.

 

[Random Direction]

Where? A curious one might ask (given that this is the sockpuppet thread)...

 

[Red Rick]

How can mods know for sure when people are sock puppets, when do they get banned?

 

[Race Radio]

Bring back BPC ?!

Already back

 

[Fetisoff]

How can mods know for sure when people are sock puppets, when do they get banned?

Some people are so lazy that they don't even use proxys/anonimizers for their sockpuppets

 

[BroDeal]

Where? A curious one might ask (given that this is the sockpuppet thread)...

Tango Delta

...

 

[ElChingon]

How can mods know for sure when people are sock puppets, when do they get banned?

There are some obvious ways but those obvious ways can also produce false positives, like cycling buddy roommates on the same connection or a family computer with several cycling fans or CN forum accounts. Those would be very low in number though, cycling isn't that popular a sport. Then there's the forum member logging on through a neighbors wifi, again hardly happens but could (produce a false positive).

Then there's the other parameters from e-mail addresses and cookies, if you do it right you could fool anyone but most don't as a sockpuppet account is usually for minor annoyance and way too much effort to use the real tools as it takes time to setup. Proxies can be used but are also easy to detect to a knowledgeable person with the right tools, hence the cookie angle.

As a web surfer you have a footprint so to speak and that is one thing the Do Not Track fiasco is about, most sites will track you based on where you have been before and what led you to their site and a few dozen other parameters, which in the end can uniquely identify you as you.

At the same time there are many tools to help anyone keep their anonymity but its does take effort. There's a few tools that can make you so unique you'd have trouble knowing you were you.

It seems obvious laziness is the number one way the mods get sockpuppet accounts, logging on from the same computer, same computer profile and same browser profile as the real account. I'm not sure what the full extent of forum software features this version of the CN forum have (or were paid for) but if they are anywhere near the modern age they have some of the features listed above, again it being CN I would guess they only have one (based on the time it takes to spot them).

 

[180mmCrank]

The software can do some of the work but usually a poster gives themselves away... in practice it doesnt take anything very sophisticated.

If anyone believes there are people with duplicate registrations who is causing mischief as a result than just let us know. We follow these things up very quickly.

T