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I'm not bound by your

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 19:57:17 +0000

I'm not bound by your Sockratic oath, nor do you pull my strings. Your phobic is just a faux bit - you came to provoke, but at least try to amuse.

Whatever, dude! Your

Shovelready — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 18:05:00 +0000

In reply to Look, sock puppets, meat

Whatever, dude! Your sockphobic routine doesn't fool anyone. Time to come out of the closet, puppet!

Oops, I outed you.

Look, sock puppets, meat

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 15:00:00 +0000

In reply to I speak for the sock puppets.

Look, sock puppets, meat puppets - I've been dealing with you (non) people for decades. You think I'm going to wet my drawers over some reheated muppets, a bit of darn and yarn, you got another thing coming buddy (or girl - I don't know if you socks have sex or even gender, but I'm there for you - transitioning or just androgynous). Anyway, the best defense is a good offense, so parry four.

And in case you pupps are ready to join the human race, here's an instructional video for you noogie types (NSFW, at least in the wetwear world - not sure about footwear aesthetics)

I speak for the sock puppets.

Shovelready — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 14:15:00 +0000

In reply to Student Loan "expert" really industry sock puppet

I speak for the sock puppets. For too long, we've been denigrated and mocked by people like you. Just because we're not real people doesn't mean we don't have rights! We're mobilizing, baby, and we're gonna be HUUUUUUUGE in 2018!!!! Say good-bye Realies, the Sock Puppet Defense League is coming for you!

I'm not surprised that some,

ocean-kat — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 19:50:07 +0000

In reply to Not worked up about it, just

I'm not surprised that some, maybe many, industries do this but I am very unhappy with the WP. I expect higher journalistic standards and proper vetting of sources from that type of news organization. Improper vetting of sources and information is one of my major complaints about the sites that lulu links to. I'm equally unhappy when it happens at the WP as I am when it happens at Consortium News.

Not worked up about it, just

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 10:04:21 +0000

In reply to I find it hard to get all het

Not worked up about it, just harder to vet our reading material. Of course my daily blog/newsroll doesn't have me waiting in a field for the spaceships to show up, but just in case...

I find it hard to get all het

artappraiser — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 06:06:39 +0000

In reply to Student Loan "expert" really industry sock puppet

I find it hard to get all het up by stuff like this, I guess because I learned in like 1980 that The Antiques and Arts Weekly will publish any press release you send them verbatim if you are also an advertiser, and even sometimes if you're not an advertiser. (Well okay, they might not publish all your photos, but they won't touch your text!) You get: free advertising for giving them free content! And they have a huge and wide free distribution along with plenty of subscribers (who subscribe to get the ads!)

Suffice it to say: I learned to go with the idea that it's up to the reader to judge the quality of the work in a publication.

If an industry tout, real or memorex, is offering good solid helpful objective information, no big deal. Still, like everyone else in the market in those days, I learned to: read the Maine Antique Digest, with the real paid reporters, and as for the Antiques and Arts Weekly I'd browse the ads and ignore the articles. Not coincidentally: The former was funded by an old Maine family and was always begging for subscriptions to balance the budget; the latter was a fairly profitable operation.