Fraud on the Top Monthly Reaction scoreboard?

[Dogmaphobe]

Faun worked for Mossad, moron....

I wasn't askig you to prove it, but thanks for the confirmation.

 

[justoffal]

Since February 2017, I have been a Moderator at a history site and an Administrator at another site that use the exact same software/platform/whatever as USMB. The "traveling poster" doesn't know everything. That's all I'm gonna say about it.

I know enough to know that anyone can use multiple IPS if they want to make the investment.
Not sure why someone would spend that kind of money. It does appear however that VPNs can accomplish this kind of deception especially if it's from a multi connected posting farm.

I am not an IT expert by any means...so I will certainly consider your experience as a moderator since I have none myself. I never assume that I am 100% correct...

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Faun was always fun to debate.

But I haven't seen Faun here for quite some time.

How is Faun always on the Top Monthly Reaction Scoreboard when he isn't posting here and hasn't, as far as I can tell, for months?


Do we have a "climate scientist" fudging the Top Monthly Reaction scoreboard here??

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I've been thinking that for some time now.

Don't care.

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[OhPleaseJustQuit]

If you say so.

Faun is a poster EMH notices. EMH has not noticed Faun for a long time. Doesn't seem to post in Politics anymore. Nor Conspiracy nor Israel/Palestine....

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Nor have I seen him/her/it.

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[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Maybe someone can link a recent Faun post for us???

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Last post, Nov 6, 2024

Search results

www.usmessageboard.com

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

When was Faun's last post?

link....

Search results

www.usmessageboard.com

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Lakhota too, hasn't been around for months if not longer, no posts, still top of reaction score...


MASSIVE FRAUD on USMB

We need a SPECIAL COUNSEL on this!!!!

Well, maybe just a tech person to fix it will suffice...

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Fraud.

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[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Faun was always fun to debate.

But I haven't seen Faun here for quite some time.

How is Faun always on the Top Monthly Reaction Scoreboard when he isn't posting here and hasn't, as far as I can tell, for months?


Do we have a "climate scientist" fudging the Top Monthly Reaction scoreboard here??

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I have messaged katsteve2012 about it. Thanks for bringing it up.

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[OhPleaseJustQuit]

what does Faun say?

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Nothing. Faun hasn't seemed to be here for almost a year.

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[OhPleaseJustQuit]

reactions may be good or bad

are they all lumped together here.?

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Seems I once read that it's only the positive reactions that get counted. No one in the top half dozen spots on the board ever gets positive feedback.

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[OhPleaseJustQuit]

How do you know that? Mods can easily determine if that's the case.

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Easily?




No.

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[bdtex]

I know enough to know that anyone can use multiple IPS if they want to make the investment.
Not sure why someone would spend that kind of money. It does appear however that VPNs can accomplish this kind of deception especially if it's from a multi connected posting farm.

If someone does that to try to create multiple accounts for posting in backwater political message boards, they've got issues that you nor I can help them with. I bust them all the time at the other sites.

 

[MarathonMike]

Maybe it's just a bug in the software that drives the monthly scoreboard.

 

[braalian]

Who cares?

 

[EMH]

Who cares?

There is the natural curiosity of just who would bother to concoct such a scheme to "fudge" a message board reaction scoreboard, and why. We do know that the "beneficiaries" of the fudge job are all left wing Democrats. Maybe that's why you "don't care"

 

[Foxfyre]

Faun was always fun to debate.

But I haven't seen Faun here for quite some time.

How is Faun always on the Top Monthly Reaction Scoreboard when he isn't posting here and hasn't, as far as I can tell, for months?


Do we have a "climate scientist" fudging the Top Monthly Reaction scoreboard here??

I didn't even know there is a reaction scoreboard. I don't see anything like that on my screen.

 

[justoffal]

If someone does that to try to create multiple accounts for posting in backwater political message boards, they've got issues that you nor I can help them with. I bust them all the time at the other sites.

Good on you!

 

[justoffal]

If someone does that to try to create multiple accounts for posting in backwater political message boards, they've got issues that you nor I can help them with. I bust them all the time at the other sites.

An Army of Me: Sockpuppets in Online Discussion Communities​

Srijan Kumar

University of Maryland srijan@cs.umd.edu

Jure Leskovec

Stanford University jure@cs.stanford.edu

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ABSTRACT​

In online discussion communities, users can interact and share information and opinions on a wide variety of topics. However, some users may create multiple identities, or sockpuppets, and engage in undesired behavior by deceiving others or manipulating discussions. In this work, we study sockpuppetry across nine discussion communities, and show that sockpuppets differ from ordinary users in terms of their posting behavior, linguistic traits, as well as social network structure. Sockpuppets tend to start fewer discussions, write shorter posts, use more personal pronouns such as “I”, and have more clustered ego-networks. Further, pairs of sockpuppets controlled by the same individual are more likely to interact on the same discussion at the same time than pairs of ordinary users. Our analysis suggests a taxonomy of deceptive behavior in discussion communities. Pairs of sockpuppets can vary in their deceptiveness, i.e., whether they pretend to be different users, or their supportiveness, i.e., if they support arguments of other sockpuppets controlled by the same user. We apply these findings to a series of prediction tasks, notably, to identify whether a pair of accounts belongs to the same underlying user or not. Altogether, this work presents a data-driven view of deception in online discussion communities and paves the way towards the automatic detection of sockpuppets.

The plagiarism detection programs use similar parameters to identify copy work in redefined phrases. Sick puppetry is widespread on the net and as you can see has drawn an entire category of analysis.

The above is just a summary of a fascinating article.

 

[bdtex]

Who cares?

Yeah. There's that too.

 

[bdtex]

There is the natural curiosity of just who would bother to concoct such a scheme to "fudge" a message board reaction scoreboard, and why. We do know that the "beneficiaries" of the fudge job are all left wing Democrats. Maybe that's why you "don't care"

Some time back, the top 2 in the reaction scoreboard were 2 posters mainly posting in the "Word Games and Other Fun"
forum and high-fiving each other. Neither were/are "left wing Democrats". Don't recall anyone complaining about that.

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