Thanks! this is helpful.
one note: the mention of “sock-puppeting” (as mentioned in “The moderation team” and “Rules for pseudonymous and multiple accounts”) is a bit confusing; I interpreted it as “people pretending to be a different person, simmilar to how sock-puppeteers can pretend to play two seperate sock characters at the same time, with their two hands”. Is this correct? maybe say what this term means in a footnote?
That’s correct, yes; people will often use sockpuppet accounts to create the appearance of either popular support for their opinions or, in some cases, unfair criticism. (The term’s in common use most places I frequent, but as I discovered just now when looking up a reference, there’s also an entire Wikipedia page about the phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sock_puppet_account)
Thanks! this is helpful. one note: the mention of “sock-puppeting” (as mentioned in “The moderation team” and “Rules for pseudonymous and multiple accounts”) is a bit confusing; I interpreted it as “people pretending to be a different person, simmilar to how sock-puppeteers can pretend to play two seperate sock characters at the same time, with their two hands”. Is this correct? maybe say what this term means in a footnote?
That’s correct, yes; people will often use sockpuppet accounts to create the appearance of either popular support for their opinions or, in some cases, unfair criticism. (The term’s in common use most places I frequent, but as I discovered just now when looking up a reference, there’s also an entire Wikipedia page about the phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sock_puppet_account)