For fresh eyes to this sort of malarkey, Consensus Cracking Sock Puppeteering is where an individual - or a group of individuals who collaborate outside the walls of Voat - come here to manufacture a consensus view among the users here
where this differs from honest persuasion and argumentation is in the Fraudulent Fabrication of agreement or disagreement around certain topics
I'd like you all to cast a cynical eye over this conversational thread here
https://voat.co/v/GreatAwakening/3791132/23591966
me paraphrasing for emphasis:
1 "I have something very important to say"
2 "oh wow you seems very important, just by your user name alone i can tell you have gems of wisdom to impart. tell me more, oh authoritative one"
3 "yes they are important, listen to them"
1 "I'm glad you asked, blah blah "
It's pretty obvious to experienced eyes that this is one person using a sock puppet larp to manufacture a conversation - or possibly two people with a prior agreement to construct a discussion
This sock puppetteering goes the other way, too. If you were to post something important and valuable that fucks up their disinformation campaign, one jerk will jump on 5 sock puppet accounts to all shitpost under your contribution, in order to make people think in herd mentality that your view is unpopular, therefore musnt be credible
these people are very organised with Malice Aforethought. 3 years ago they made dozens and dozens of sleeper accounts that spring to life after significant dormancy to suddenly be very assertive and opinionated
NOTES for users :
- Sock Puppeteering is a bannable offence
- Consensus Cracking is a bannable offence
- The topic of Racine Wisconsin is not off limits . But if you are going to post about it, just post like a normal fucking person with relevant links and make your points clear and not wanky cryptics.
and no, Q's cryptics arent wanky. They are a necessity bc team Q needs plausible deniability. You dont. You need plausible Credibility
Edit: and before anyone else doubts me spare yourself the Faggotry Aforethought by seeing how they have admitted their consensus cracking in the comments below by freshly created user @consesuscracker
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ditzee ago
Please read a bit of a post instead of just up voting the title. All it takes is a minute. Many are actually giving credit to the sock puppet.
MolochHunter ago
the socks upvoat each other's accounts in order to unlock user facilities and add to their false credibility , its called voatfarming
consensuscracker5 ago
that's untrue. all of accounts @TrustTheTruth was forced to make that got banned have only one post on them and then they make a new account. There's no point in farming upvotes when you're just going to make a new account. What you are trying to say only works on people who are new or aren't paying attention.