Thread:BunsenH/@comment-25404524-20160713233427/@comment-25404524-20160719004611

BunsenH wrote: Super29392 wrote: What's a sockpuppet? [...]

On the internet, it's as Qwerty says. Imagine someone who has gotten into trouble holding up a sock puppet and trying to pretend that the troublemaker was really the puppet, or (more usually) that the puppet is a new person and not the one who got into trouble. It can get very bizarre. "Hi, I'm new here!  Look at me!  I'm DEFINITELY NOT A SOCK PUPPET!!!I" Of course it does.