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    6 days ago

    He made a lot of critical errors because he doesn’t understand that for a sock puppet to be effective in the long run, it has to do 3 things:

    1. it has to post regularly

    2. it has to post differently than you do. If it disagrees with you broadly that’s even better.

    3. It can only show up in your defense at critical moments and with almost visible hesitancy e.g. “I am a huge critic of Musk, especially on [issue A], but on this [Issue B] I actually think he makes a salient point.”

    You get the most use out of sock puppets by letting them moderate your position to make it more palatable to the public without actually having to moderate your position.

    Anything less than the 3 above makes it a liability. Especially when you sloppily juggle several.