We have a sock puppet
I love it when someone posts a comment without knowing that this system is logging some of their basic data...
On January 2nd, 2010, I posted this:
FloriDUH
The post pointed to a news aggregator linking to strange stories from Florida and I excerpted one such story about a guy and some turtles.
January 15th, I got this comment from Bocalover:
These allegations are False and all charges will be dismissed. The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers fabricated this story to get back at this guy for filling a complaint to the State's Inspector General for abuse of power against the officers. This man owned a vacant lot and he lived 2500 miles away. Someone filled some gopher tortoise holes on in this man's property and he is being accused of "this crime" because he didn't have a full time security guard on his property to watch the gopher tortoise burrows! This is how our taxpayers money being wasted!
That same day strangeworld posted this:
This is crazy! How much power do these FWC officers have? We should publish the names of these officers and make the whole world know about them. They should kick them out of the force. They shouldn't be trusted to represent us. They are bunch of lunatics.
On January 16th, seawarrier posted:
The Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel didn't tell the entire story:
The guy is an animal lover and has a golden retriever. His dog has a better life than most people! The whole story is about a couple of FWC officers who went after this guy for personal vendettas. No one in Boca Grande believes these stupid charges against this man and we all know that the truth will come out during the trial. These FWC officers will serve jail time for lying and their despicable act of using their badge for personal reasons will be exposed to the whole word.
Today (January 17th) I have two posts from missionimpossible
What Bocalover, etc... fail to realize is that I can see the IP address from the posting system -- it is stored in my log files and this single person is posting from 71.203.5.237 which is the West Florida section of the Comcast network.
Every single one of these posts is coming from the same computer system.
In my world, that is called
being a sock puppet and is generally frowned on.
Needless to say, comments have been turned off for that blog entry...
Posted by DaveH at January 17, 2010 2:55 PM