To make it appear that there are others who agree with him. Pretty simple definition of a "sock puppet", eh?Īn alternate, ficticious net-persona adopted by a net.kook So, you post what you are told to post, when you are told to post,Īnd you stop posting when you are told to stop. You going to go back to that "shared typist" excuse?īy February 1998, sock puppet had both meanings of a minion and of a fake account: here's "Sock puppet defined": What is it - Sock Puppets? Does Doogie hire the illiterate, or are He even gets his sock puppets their own accounts. Old battle with Snyder and using fake people to help him wage this war.īy the way, did Doug pay for your account. Is that Doug Grant has a different agenda. How to put a sock puppet on his foot, he could play bridge.
Our claim that the "hired typist" that you share is none otherīut some suggestions were made it was the same person, for example (September 1996):ĭoogie has 2 hands, ergo room for 2 sock puppets. None of the sock puppets have ever denied Whether you are a hired sock puppet or an independent sock puppet These sock puppets were referred to as separate individuals (December 1996): It was used extensively in from September 1996 onwards in hundreds of posts about one person's gambling method and the numerous sock puppets who backed him up. Let's delve further into Usenet to see where the fake account meaning comes from. Sock puppet manifestation of the other's demented and sadly listing I happen to know for a fact that one is merely the I suppose I could save everyone the suspense by just saying, "Fuck you,Ĭlown (singular)", though. The term "sockpuppet" was used as early as July 9, 1993, but did not become common in USENET groups until 1996. Usenet parlance, a through which the puppeteer postsįollow-ups to their own original message to give the appearance thatĪ number of people support the views held in the original message. Your hand and talking to it and pretending it's talking back] In [USENET: from the act of placing a sock over Here's the definition in Jargon File version 4.1.0, 12th March 1999 (the first version "since the last paper revision of The New Hacker's Dictionary"): 22/1 Jennifer Brand, a 24-year-old student who backed President Clinton in 1996, called Gore ‘a sock puppet’ and Bush ‘a wimp’.Ī similar figurative use can be found in the older term, puppet government, which can be traced back to puppet King used in 1611. a simple puppet made from a sock that is fitted over and moved by the hand and fingers (also fig.) a person whose actions are controlled by another a minion.ġ959 Gettysburg (Pa.) Times 24 Sept. The OED doesn't have this meaning, but has two earlier meanings that shows the development: The most popular definition on Urban Dictionary is also the earliest, from 2003:Īn account made on an internet message board, by a person who already has an account, for the purpose of posting more-or-less anonymously.
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