Sockpuppet personas, Best attempt at making a new persona different to master Options

[Casliber]

One thing about socking, I have been intrigued about folks' perceptions of sockmasters who have created a sock and successfully made a new persona that wrote and interacted substantively differently to the original account. Has anyone been really impressed at one which turned out to be a sock, and had otherwise been successful at sounding completely different?
Cas

(has this topic been asked before somewhere?)

[RMHED]

Well I've got two admin accounts on da 'pedia. The key to successful socking is separation, use a different computer and ISP for every sock account you regard as valuable.

PS. The only checkuser on Wikipedia worth a damn is Alison, all the others are remarkably dim.

[A Horse With No Name]

PS. The only checkuser on Wikipedia worth a damn is Alison...

And she's the only sexy checkuser, too!

[Malleus]

PS. The only checkuser on Wikipedia worth a damn is Alison...

And she's the only sexy checkuser, too!

I thought you made a fair fist of it with your Pastor Theo personna, and it seemed to convince a fair number of the usual "Why not?" RfA voters.

I think I did a great job! (Not telling who I am) but I have been accused and accused of being this and that sock. All proven wrong!

I think you mean not yet proven.

[A Horse With No Name]

I thought you made a fair fist of it with your Pastor Theo personna, and it seemed to convince a fair number of the usual "Why not?" RfA voters.

Eh, all they saw was "Pastor" and assumed that the persona was a vicar that you'd find in a Jane Austen novel. I can't say that I miss the pastor - even I have to admit that he was an annoying persona. I much preferred my colorless, personality-free alter egos like Warrah or Regent of the Seatopians, who brought in a good amount of content and copy editing plus a lot of vandalism tagging without getting wrapped up in the Wiki-drama. Of course, the vindictive arbs abused the checkuser process by "fishing" them out. But, then again, you cannot expect idiots to behave as anything but idiots.

[powercorrupts]

Eh, all they saw was "Pastor" and assumed that the persona was a vicar that you'd find in a Jane Austen novel.

You mean ambitious, self-interested, obsequious, hypocritical and generally-slimy social climbers?

Exactly - admin (and their attention-grabbing wannabees) groom and vote for people who are exactly like themselves, which is partly why they are nearly all so very very very bad.

This post has been edited by powercorrupts: Sun 24th July 2011, 11:07pm