Another question I wanted to ask is whether the EA Forum has rules against creating sock puppet accounts. This is defined as follows:
Wikipedia: “Online, it came to be used to refer to a false identity assumed by a member of an internet community who spoke to, or about, themselves while pretending to be another person.”
Urban dictionary: “A false identity adopted by trolls and other malcontents to support their own postings.”
I ask because it appears to me that the poster acted deceptively in managing their multiple anonymous accounts by (1) using a second anonymous account to reply to their first anonymous account; (2) promoting the actions of their anonymous account from their public account without disclosing that they were behind the anonymous account.
Most forums I’ve been a part of have rules against sockpuppeting, but reviewing the EA Forum rules and guidelines, I did not see anything about that.
Hi Ben,
Another question I wanted to ask is whether the EA Forum has rules against creating sock puppet accounts. This is defined as follows:
Wikipedia: “Online, it came to be used to refer to a false identity assumed by a member of an internet community who spoke to, or about, themselves while pretending to be another person.”
Urban dictionary: “A false identity adopted by trolls and other malcontents to support their own postings.”
I ask because it appears to me that the poster acted deceptively in managing their multiple anonymous accounts by (1) using a second anonymous account to reply to their first anonymous account; (2) promoting the actions of their anonymous account from their public account without disclosing that they were behind the anonymous account.
Most forums I’ve been a part of have rules against sockpuppeting, but reviewing the EA Forum rules and guidelines, I did not see anything about that.
Note that the two anonymous accounts are spaced a year apart; seems likely that Ryan lost the password to the 1st.
The obvious thing to do in that case is to disclose this in a comment somewhere.
Also, this defense doesn’t work for his efforts to promote his own anonymous posts from his public account.