Rationalskepticism,lol part III.

[JimC]

Here's a new username for you - Aussie Redsox...

[pErvinalia]

I'll hold a poll for the name of my next sock..

[Surendra Darathy]

They're so paranoid over there, I'd say they've taken browser and OS info and same ISP and probably a call on the content of the posts being sock/troll-like, and made a call. From what I've learnt in the past, I don't think they are that concerned with being right. They are more concerned with paranoia about socks under the bed.

It's not paranoid if the call turns out to be right. You'd perhaps have more success if you conceived of sock puppetry as something besides a means of trying to get away with spamming your message that you think it's a joke over there.

[Ayaan]

As a long time forum admin, all I will say is that we have ways of discovering sock puppets.

[pErvinalia]

They're so paranoid over there, I'd say they've taken browser and OS info and same ISP and probably a call on the content of the posts being sock/troll-like, and made a call. From what I've learnt in the past, I don't think they are that concerned with being right. They are more concerned with paranoia about socks under the bed.

It's not paranoid if the call turns out to be right.

Someone of your obvious engineering qualifications would surely understand the concept of "false positives". I can explain it to you if you are struggling.

[pErvinalia]

As a long time forum admin, all I will say is that we have ways of discovering sock puppets.

Haha, yes, I was a forum admin too. And IT educated as well. There's only so much you can do at the far end of a network connection. Just thinking about this some more while taking my arvo beach walk, I wonder if there's a way to get general device info (not MAC address, but more like brand and type of device). Even though my device is full Windows OS, it's a tablet, so perhaps MS send that info off with http requests. It's not a common tablet, I imagine, so that with the other stuff might have been enough for them to feel sure enough. Either that, or they just took a guess and got it right. Expanding on my last post to surrender monkey, we don't hear about the false positives. Those people just disappear without a whimper.

[Fallible]

If you're bored, you could always devote your time to working out the possible numbers by trawling through the members list and looking at banned members, then ruling out the obvious socks.

[pErvinalia]

I dunno what that means. And if I did, I probably wouldn't do it either. Sounds boring..

[Fallible]

There's a member list, saying which are banned. You could identify them, take out the people you know weren't socks, eg. your original account, Tyrannical, Seth, all that lot. Those left would be either spammers or socks. Then you could remove those who you know were socks, like epete and Seth's sock, and those whose posting history shows only spamming, and you would be starting to get towards identifying false positives...OK yes, I possibly have aspergers.

[pErvinalia]

Yeah, fuck that.

[tattuchu]

Yeah, fuck that.

Ain't nobody got time for dat!

[Surendra Darathy]

Someone of your obvious engineering qualifications would surely understand the concept of "false positives". I can explain it to you if you are struggling.

Sure, explain away. Someone of such obvious skill in engineering your recent sock puppets will have much to say about the incidence of false positives in RatSkep's list of banned members.

[Hermit]

Someone of your obvious engineering qualifications would surely understand the concept of "false positives". I can explain it to you if you are struggling.

Sure, explain away. Someone of such obvious skill in engineering your recent sock puppets will have much to say about the incidence of false positives in RatSkep's list of banned members.

Leave rEv alone, Pense. You are just a blow-in from ratskep while he is, err, never mind.

[Seabass]

This thread makes me want a ratskep sock of my own, and I'm not even banned. rEv makes them sound like so much fun!

[pErvinalia]

They are! Let's ALL sock ratskep!!