Socks

[AZ Jim]

I like wool socks. I wear them sometimes in the winter.

Itchy!!!

[Perianne]

Itchy!!!

Maybe men's wool socks are different. I have small feet and buy children's wool socks. No itch at all.

[jimmyz]

Someone told that using proxy servers can open up a can of worms for your device.

[stjames1_53]

Maybe men's wool socks are different. I have small feet and buy children's wool socks. No itch at all.

the nice thing about wool socks is that your feet stay warm if they get wet

[Kacper]

How does management know who is a sock? How do you know I am not someone who has been previously banned? I did disappear for a while and then suddenly came back.

Primarily your IP address, but also location, browser configuration and semantics. If your usual location is somewhere not particularly large, then taking your same laptop to somewhere using a wifi in the same area and starting a new account combined with the other things can get you caught. IP addresses are a dead giveaway and people increasingly have static IP's. Plus people often use their sock accounts in a pattern together bolster their own posts or attack the same posters over and over and over. Take the same positions, offer the same arguments, have the same sentence structures from account to account. Even if you had an account say at home and a different one at work, you will more than likely accidentally log into one at the other for instance.

[Adelaide]

Primarily your IP address, but also location, browser configuration and semantics. If your usual location is somewhere not particularly large, then taking your same laptop to somewhere using a wifi in the same area and starting a new account combined with the other things can get you caught. IP addresses are a dead giveaway and people increasingly have static IP's. Plus people often use their sock accounts in a pattern together bolster their own posts or attack the same posters over and over and over. Take the same positions, offer the same arguments, have the same sentence structures from account to account. Even if you had an account say at home and a different one at work, you will more than likely accidentally log into one at the other for instance.

Pretty much exactly.

[Kacper]

Pretty much exactly.

There are a few other clues that can come up. Socks very seldom change their gender in sites that require to state yours and if they do, that is usually a dead give away because men post like men and women post like women. There tends to be a gender style in word choices, etc.

[exotix]

Usually ISP.


If they use a proxy, posting style etc.

Correct.

[resister]

I'm some people are more skilled than others at maintaining the charade. Not sure why anyone would go through the trouble. Multiple personality disorder?

[Cthulhu]

Primarily your IP address, but also location, browser configuration and semantics. If your usual location is somewhere not particularly large, then taking your same laptop to somewhere using a wifi in the same area and starting a new account combined with the other things can get you caught. IP addresses are a dead giveaway and people increasingly have static IP's. Plus people often use their sock accounts in a pattern together bolster their own posts or attack the same posters over and over and over. Take the same positions, offer the same arguments, have the same sentence structures from account to account. Even if you had an account say at home and a different one at work, you will more than likely accidentally log into one at the other for instance.

These are fool's mistakes.

But most trolls are fools...

Sent from my evil cell phone.