Sock-Puppetting and the Current Affairs Forum

reporting of posts doesn't result in infractions. Only the contents of a post can do that.

If the 'post' breaks the rules it doesn't matter who reported it.

An educated guess...'McMurphy' being a single male.

Detectives everywhere! 

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I didn't question that.

If somebody is a 'ShinnerBot' that suggests he is being paid by SF to post. Otherwise we could call somebody who exclusively defends FG or FF Bots too.

That he was paid by SF needs to be evidenced in fairness.

Well that needs to be evidenced too.

As I said, that claim could be made about anyone who supports a political party on here.

That’s as may be but, right now, we’ve had a single user, consistently, backing SF caught running accounts into double digits.

I think you could nearly do a roll call in CA for “verified” users supporting other, more normal, parties and you wouldn’t come close to those numbers.

Its a worrying development for future “engagement” in any thread that gets overrun by SF supporters. It will mostly be one user pulling multiple strings and drowning out any dissent, or negative comments, against SF.

This will require vigilance from the users, themselves, working in conjunction with the mods and admins, if it is to be prevented and civilised, regular, “discussion” resumed.

This thread seems to confirm the general viewpoint that boards.ie because of it's age and demographic is inherently conservative and basically an FF/FG echo chamber.

SOCK PUPPETING IS WRONG AND IF MEMBERS OF SF WERE INVOLVED THATS NOT RIGHT.

The utter glee with which this revelation has been met is nothing short of disgusting.

But of course - I'm probably just a shinnerbot..

Whatever.

Your day is over guys.

Deal with it.

sure.

Now that is funny, no harm to you Emmet.

It's never been anything but that. A good excuse to laugh at the loopers.

Eh, less of the personals there, P. This isn’t the “Current Affairs” forum, a bit of decorum, and respect, are a minimum in here.

Now, you’re talking about “echo chambers” and “shinnerbotz” but we’ve just had 10 sock puppet account closed down. All backing SF. Earlier a user, SF booster, was complaining that now threads have become echo chambers because these accounts are gone.

Its starting to look like the mobilised SF wing on boards.ie isn’t as solid as once thought. In fact, it starting to look like it was one brave soldier using dirty tactics to fight on a number of fronts but the house of cards has now fallen and it will be very hard for any user to take any SF argument seriously, unless it’s from one of the handful of established SF posters.

Point of order there Emmet...I was not complaining because those 10 accounts were gone...I actually pointed to the FG/FF/Greens threads as an example and how key government defenders were taken out of it and the Protocol thread were downcow got the threadban where there is no redemption for engaging in what was just robust debate.