User blog comment:The Ultimate Thinker/How to catch a Sock Puppet?/@comment-452-20140815192542

I was with you until this part: "However if the community does not know that you are behind these accounts, then you have just created a sock account..."

I disagree that disclosure of alternate accounts is always required.

I have a former account which is not at all related to this account, and I currently maintain a fully-disclosed bot account, as well as a completely-unrelated and undisclosed alternate account. (Perhaps two, I don't recall... and like 4 different testing accounts with "452" in the name.)

I agree that if you wish to edit on the same wiki you should not misrepresent yourself as a different person, and that is probably what you were talking about, but is not what you said.


 * One Computer can actually hold 2 accounts at the same time on the same chat but makes it so that only one of them can actually write and respond which can come as big help.

False.

There is absolutely nothing to stop someone being in the chat as one user, then logging into a different account and joining the same chat in a different tab in the same browser. I do it all the time for testing with 2 accounts, but I could easily do it with 6 if I wanted.