Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-26014718-20131016205149/@comment-3247345-20131114181402

Tealturtle828 wrote: 3cooldog92 wrote: A sock puppet is a second account someone uses to stir up trouble. In this case there were a number of them. Oh, my first impression when I heard about "sockpuppeting" is someone's hand inside of an old sock with eyes drawn on in marker. But thanks for clearing that up!

(Before now I literally had no clue what it was, but I knew people were abuzz about it, so thanks for telling me/the general public) Funny thing about that is that's actually the where the term originated. See Wikipedia:SOCK