Opinion of TheProfessor

[Mr. Morden]

It is of course possible to evade sock detection and "post" from distant locations that aren't proxies, but few people would make the effort, and most of those that would probably couldn't figure out how to do it.

But he is a professor, so you can't put anything past him.

[Mr. Morden]

Why can't you guys just accept that he's not a sock of an already existing user?

Why would some random person come to this forum and make an account like that?

Why not?  I'm sure lots of people who are interested in politics lurk on this board for a long time before posting, if they ever post.  Is it really so strange that 1 out of 1000 people who eventually do so make a joke account?

[Mr. Morden]

This thread risks turning into a "how to" guide for evading detection as a sock.  Suffice it to say, the normal means for telling if an account is a sock don't show anything suspicious about him, but if one is sneaky enough, then one can hide one's sockiness and there's nothing we can do about it.  In this case, The Professor is either legit, or someone who's done a good job of hiding his sockiness.

[Mr. Morden]

...or the sock creator is a mod without enemies among the other mods. That would work too.

My theory is that he's a sock of Dave Leip.  But then, that's my working assumption for all suspicious posters.

[Mr. Morden]

...or the sock creator is a mod without enemies among the other mods. That would work too.

My theory is that he's a sock of Dave Leip.  But then, that's my working assumption for all suspicious posters.

That would be a subscenario of the above scenario (which is not "my theory", but merely a possibility I would not dismiss.)

With the important distinction that Dave could actually change the software to fool the rest of the mods, whereas "regular" mods would have to depend on the goodwill of their fellow mods not to out any sock accounts.