On 3/19/07, Bartning@aol.com Bartning@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 3/12/2007 3:40:59 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, wikipedia@downlode.org writes:
On 12/03/07, Ron Ritzman ritzman@gmail.com wrote:
"meat puppet"
Worst neologism ever.
Yeah, "sock puppets" make more sense than "meat puppets." I think it's not well thought out to include the two together.
That's the reason why in another thread I proposed the term "posse" to replace it. That way, instead of saying that the creator of webcomic FooBarBaz brought "meatpuppets" to AFD, you say "He brought a posse". Closer still should still give their votes the same weight as he would if we were still calling them "meatpuppets".