Sockpuppetry afoot

March 3, 2006 9:22 PM

This user is this user. Both link to lame link-farm sites on their user pages. Both seem to be making pointless comments, assumingly so they can eventually spam metafilter. Enough said.
posted by Jimbob to etiquette/policy at 9:22 PM (37 comments total)

But Jimbob, we gotta support the cooperation between schools and the police force! We gotta! Kids are eating all of the potato chips.
posted by rob paxon at 9:32 PM on March 3, 2006

This post is clearlly not pointless. (.)(.)
posted by aburd at 9:35 PM on March 3, 2006

Sorry. I should have let this rest until he made a fantastic post about an amazing portal where you can find out everything you ever wanted to know about lemon laws. That would have been even more entertaining.
posted by Jimbob at 9:35 PM on March 3, 2006

Wow, these dangerous stuff.
posted by Gator at 9:36 PM on March 3, 2006

Preemptive banhammer coming? Smoke these terrorists out of their foxholes..
posted by drpynchon at 9:47 PM on March 3, 2006

More evidence that precogs are excellent at rooting out crime before it even happens.
posted by Astro Zombie at 9:52 PM on March 3, 2006

I can't decide which is more disheartening; that people try this shit, or they really think they won't be noticed.
posted by yhbc at 9:58 PM on March 3, 2006

That's the worst would-be spammer I've ever seen. Way to draw attention to yourself with The World's Dumbest Comments.

gotta be tough dealing with drug...
cannot let the students touch these dangerous stuff, otherwise their life will be gone!

totally support the cooperation between schools and the police force... both parties must really work hand in hand to fight drugs issue. Gotta protect our innocent children from getting involved in these dangerous stuff!

It's the exact same thing from two different usernames six minutes apart. Are you from the moon or something? Why wouldn't you realize how dumb this is?
posted by Optimus Chyme at 10:00 PM on March 3, 2006

For what it is worth, the userpages are ignored by google, and the links have nofollow added to them, so they get no help there. If and when they mess up and link to some spamholes, I'll ban them both, but I can't really justify it pre-emptively.
posted by mathowie at 10:11 PM on March 3, 2006

I say he hang him upside down, cut him, and drink his blood.
posted by puke & cry at 10:12 PM on March 3, 2006

cannot let the students touch these dangerous stuff, otherwise their life will be gone!

I always thought the bad grammar you see in spam email was just some bayes defeating measure...guess not(?)
posted by juv3nal at 10:14 PM on March 3, 2006

ESL.
posted by puke & cry at 10:15 PM on March 3, 2006

No ban-hammer? How about a ban-swirly or at least a ban-wedgie?
posted by substrate at 10:53 PM on March 3, 2006

hell I say we should just recruit metafilter to find OBL, done in 3 days
posted by edgeways at 11:17 PM on March 3, 2006

hey, i know ... when life deals you lemons, make lemonade ... hmmm ... how are we going to keep it cold here?
posted by pyramid termite at 11:19 PM on March 3, 2006

ESL.


in kazakhstan we stay away from these dangerous stuff called "jews" and we make sexy explosion on picture of character "lara croft."

jagshemash!
posted by Hat Maui at 11:26 PM on March 3, 2006

gotta be tough dealing with hu-man drug...
cannot let the hu-man students touch these dangerous stuff, otherwise their life will be gone!
BEEP

*twirls antennae*
posted by brundlefly at 12:38 AM on March 4, 2006

Oh for God's sake just shoot him through the lungs and be done with it. It isn't a pogrom if you're actually right.
posted by Ryvar at 1:19 AM on March 4, 2006

Well, that's nt entirely true. Just because the Cossacks arrested my grandmother doesn't mean she wasn't making goy blood matzah.

Mmm. Goy blood matzah. How I miss it!
posted by Astro Zombie at 1:45 AM on March 4, 2006

I can't really justify it pre-emptively.

now, THAT'S fuckin' funny. who will you need to be justifying it too?
posted by quonsar at 3:10 AM on March 4, 2006

to?
posted by quonsar at 3:10 AM on March 4, 2006

MetaFilter: BIG BUSTY BOOBS! (.)(.)
posted by matteo at 3:46 AM on March 4, 2006

You're not going to ban them?

WTF?

Matt, please, DO try to set some sort of community standard when it comes to people that want to subvert this place for their financial gain.

Yourself excluded, natch.
posted by five fresh fish at 9:11 AM on March 4, 2006

If and when they mess up

You're not going to ban them?

Why are people using the plural here? These are two accounts almost certainly owned by one user. Reason enough to at least ban the one that came second right now.
posted by PinkStainlessTail at 11:07 AM on March 4, 2006

Why are people using the plural here? These are two accounts almost certainly owned by one user. Reason enough to at least ban the one that came second right now.

Are there rules against one person having multiple accounts? If there are, please supply a reference.
posted by timeistight at 11:25 AM on March 4, 2006

I thought it was a no-no to do it when it's just to inflate your voice and opinion (as in the deleted thread that's been pointed out above), but maybe I am being a bit of a goosestepping poxi.
posted by PinkStainlessTail at 11:34 AM on March 4, 2006

That's better than a pox-stepping goosie, I think.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 11:36 AM on March 4, 2006

This is funnier than any comment quonsar's made in ages. Look out, q, the young 'uns are gaining on you. You don't want to wind up like poor Lenny Bruce, do you?
posted by languagehat at 12:22 PM on March 4, 2006

Matt, please, DO try to set some sort of community standard when it comes to people that want to subvert this place for their financial gain.

I think he does for the most part. The standard is that you have to subvert this place first. Then comes the banhammer.
posted by shmegegge at 2:20 PM on March 4, 2006

in kazakhstan we stay away from these dangerous stuff called "jews" and we make sexy explosion on picture of character "lara croft."

Other then Borat: why do people assume that Khazacks are particularly anti-semetic?

I mean, just making up some stereotype about a people just for laughs seems rather racist to me. I dunno.

I've met people from Khazackstan and they seemed pretty normal, with unremarkable English. Most people would just assume they were Chinese.
posted by delmoi at 2:46 PM on March 4, 2006

also, so far this guy's comments have been pretty funny.
posted by delmoi at 2:48 PM on March 4, 2006

Great catch, Jimbob.
posted by mediareport at 4:22 PM on March 4, 2006

Other then Borat: why do people assume that Khazacks are particularly anti-semetic?

i was unaware of any real association between anti-semitism and kazakhstan other than borat.

much like there's not really any association between wine made of fermented horse urine and actual kazakhstani winemaking practices.
posted by Hat Maui at 4:23 PM on March 4, 2006

I loved Jan Banhammer's theme to Miami Vice. I hope they use it in the movie.
posted by Astro Zombie at 4:24 PM on March 4, 2006

Look out, q, the young 'uns are gaining on you.

unavoidable, and as it should be.

*hums, hovers*
posted by quonsar at 4:42 AM on March 5, 2006

Both seem to be making pointless comments, assumingly so they can eventually spam metafilter.

Wait... you're not supposed to do that?
posted by blacklite at 12:29 PM on March 5, 2006

Both seem to be making pointless comments
Wait... you're not supposed to do that?
posted by dg at 5:46 AM on March 6, 2006