How-To ... Detect Sock-Puppets

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How-To ... Detect Sock-Puppets

Postby elfismiles » Thu Apr 18, 2013 4:41 pm

Anybody got any good info or links to techniques?

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Detection of Sockpuppets in Online Discussion Forums
Xueling Zheng, Yiu Ming Lai, K.P. Chow, Lucas C.K. Hui, S.M. Yiu
Department of Computer Science
The University of Hong Kong
fxlzheng,ymlai,chow,hui,smyiug@cs.hku.hk

Abstract

One common trick to cheat people to believe fake products or a high-return low-risk investment
scheme in the online discussion groups is to make use of sockpuppets (i.e., use di erent
fake identities pretending to be di erent persons to praise or create the illusion of support for
the product). A fundamental problem is how to identify these sockpuppets. In this paper, we
propose two approaches to identify these puppet pairs that occur in the same forum as well as
cross forum. The evaluation based on millions of real posts in two popular discussion forums
in Hong Kong shows that the methods are e ective.

http://www.cs.hku.hk/research/techreps/ ... 011-03.pdf


https://www.google.com/search?q=how-to+ ... ck+puppets
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Re: How-To ... Detect Sock-Puppets

Postby General Patton » Thu Apr 18, 2013 5:27 pm

Step 1, find sockpuppets and then watch what they do.

Step 2, repeat.

http://www.tmz.com/member/tom-810/
Boston attack was a false flag operation...A whistle blower came forward....Heres what he said will happen...Hope its not true.

They're going to pin this event on a male late teens to early 20s and say he did it because he's unstable. They are going to find firearms and a NRA book in his home. They are going to to say he used reloading powder for the explosion and that reloading powder shouldn't be for sale to the public. They are then going to say that because the powder in ammunition can be used for explosions that the number of rounds you can buy should be limited and taxed to help pay for these events.

I can't do anything or I'll lose my job and possibly face criminals charges. Please don't let them get away with it. They won't find the suspect till later this week and the raid is issued to occur on Friday. This was a staged event. The people hurt are real but the event was planned. Don't let them hurt our rights."


"I work on a security commission and I've just received word to start on a campaign we've been working on for the last two months and now it all makes sense.

I'll keep it as short can I can

They're going to pin this event on a male late teens to early 20s and say he did it because he's unstable. They are going to find firearms and a NRA book in his home. They are going to to say he used reloading powder for the explosion and that reloading powder shouldn't be for sale to the public. They are then going to say that because the powder in ammunition can be used for explosions that the number of rounds you can buy should be limited and taxed to help pay for these events.

I can't do anything or I'll lose my job and possibly face criminals charges. Please don't let them get away with it. They won't find the suspect till later this week and the raid is issued to occur on Friday. This was a staged event. The people hurt are real but the event was planned. Don't let them hurt our rights."


Now google the phrases with quotation marks for exact search:
http://www.google.com/#output=search&sc ... 00&bih=777

Some brave soul has stepped forward to enlighten us all and took the extra precaution of spamming the same goddamn message exactly every 4 hours down to 5 minutes accuracy on various 4chan boards.

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How does Stormfront push their bullshit constantly?

Answer: Make a program that allows you to copy/paste generic arguments to common debates, see:
http://www.stormfront.org/forum/f214/
&
http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t878206/

What is the left-wing response to far-right white autonoma?

Posting black male on white female cuckolding porn, pictures of small white penises and other trashy bullshit. Make sure you keep back-up photos on your phone for posting on the go. Note that the people posting this are in fact white themselves, they slip up on the details even after doing the same things for years.

If you count out their posts and voice, it makes them seem to represent some sort of a majority. I've found that the exact opposite is always the case, they alienate one side on a debate from the other simply because they are more vocal. Obama is a communist kenyan frankenfoods 9/11 al quesadilla in Iraq inside false flag job cancer causing controlled demolitions crop circles so buy my filters before martial law comes.
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Re: How-To ... Detect Sock-Puppets

Postby elfismiles » Thu Apr 18, 2013 6:28 pm

Thanks GP - was actually hoping you would help with info.

But I must confess confusion at your use of that image; am I a fag for asking about socks? I think that happened before on this forum when I brought up this subject.

Synchrodelicaly ... I just watched that AD sode yesterday.
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Re: How-To ... Detect Sock-Puppets

Postby General Patton » Thu Apr 18, 2013 6:31 pm

It's referring to the dickhead who keeps posting the exact same copypasta about being in a security commission.
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Re: How-To ... Detect Sock-Puppets

Postby MinM » Tue Aug 20, 2013 3:55 pm

@richarddeitsch: @ChrisWarcraft is going off on Skip Bayless. I'll remind Chris (and you) ESPN pays seven figures for such professional audience trolling.
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Re: How-To ... Detect Sock-Puppets

Postby Luther Blissett » Tue Aug 20, 2013 5:15 pm

I feel like I've gotten good at it.

The best answer I have on how to respond is to allow it to implode. This might be assumptive but the content turns increasingly ridiculous whereas humanity turns increasingly informed, rational and enlightened as years pass.

That might not be adequate but the biggest fallout currently is not that opinions are changing, it's that users are becoming frustrated by the discourse.

A coworker complained to me today about the commentary on the Daily Caller today and I just said, "sockpuppets." Philadelphia is a notably divided city, racially segregated with a ton of working class strife. The comments on our local news site are notoriously corrosive, but I'd still wager that about 30% of the worst are local sockpuppets.

There are some good tips in this thread already.
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Re: How-To ... Detect Sock-Puppets

Postby Wombaticus Rex » Tue Aug 20, 2013 5:28 pm

Having done a lot of lexical analysis shitwork for SEO and ghostwriting purposes, it helped me develop a nose for "SIP's" -- Statistically Improbable Phrases. I understand that academic deans are mighty fond of this concept, too, since it is a central technique for tracking plagarism. The idioms & adjectives being used are worth paying close attention to, and most of all: recurring typos.

Trying to remember the SIP acronym brought me to this quite nifty Crooked Timber post, which I will share a link to rather than reproduce since it just ain't germane to the OP:
http://crookedtimber.org/2005/04/02/soc ... e-phrases/
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Re: How-To ... Detect Sock-Puppets

Postby MinM » Thu Aug 22, 2013 9:10 pm

Andrew Blake ‏@apblake: Journalist Joshua Foust Outed As Government Contractor http://www.carbonated.tv/news/journalis ... contractor

Image @firetomfriedman: Breaking: national security/privacy expert @joshuafoust didn't realize his own LinkedIn profile outed him as government sockpuppet.

Image @onekade: You still pulling in that good military contract money, @joshuafoust? Or maybe this time it is through ODNI? Who's your daddy? Come on, tell

@michaelarria: Joshua Foust frantically tries to remember MySpace password to delete all signs of Slipknot admiration.*

Image @dankmtl: @joshuafoust mr foust, I am Borat. I like to become consultant for defense industry in america, is very nice, make $$$
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