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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1026551" data-attributes="member: 1">The intention of this forum is to maintain a fair and reasonable forum and facilitate legitimate, reasoned debate about the issues raised. Registering multiple accounts and then using them to &quot;like&quot; and reinforce your own point of view is not only annoying... it undermines the discussions by intentionally distorting the pattern of opinion.From <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sockpuppet_(Internet)" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>:A sockpuppet is an online identity used for purposes of deception. The term—a reference to the manipulation of a simple hand puppet made from a sock—originally referred to a false identity assumed by a member of an internet community who spoke to, or about himself while pretending to be another person.The term sock puppet refers to multiple pseudonyms in use by the same person on a particular message board or forum. The analogy of a sock puppet is of a puppeteer holding up both hands and supplying dialogue to both puppets simultaneously. A typical use of a sockpuppet account is to agree with or debate another sockpuppet account belonging to the same person, for the purposes of reinforcing the puppeteer&#039;s position in an argument.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1026551, member: 1"] The intention of this forum is to maintain a fair and reasonable forum and facilitate legitimate, reasoned debate about the issues raised. Registering multiple accounts and then using them to "like" and reinforce your own point of view is not only annoying... it undermines the discussions by intentionally distorting the pattern of opinion. From [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sockpuppet_(Internet)"]Wikipedia[/URL]: A sockpuppet is an online identity used for purposes of deception. The term—a reference to the manipulation of a simple hand puppet made from a sock—originally referred to a false identity assumed by a member of an internet community who spoke to, or about himself while pretending to be another person. The term sock puppet refers to multiple pseudonyms in use by the same person on a particular message board or forum. The analogy of a sock puppet is of a puppeteer holding up both hands and supplying dialogue to both puppets simultaneously. A typical use of a sockpuppet account is to agree with or debate another sockpuppet account belonging to the same person, for the purposes of reinforcing the puppeteer's position in an argument. [/QUOTE]

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