alt account is Adrian Dittman

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    7 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      266 days ago

      See while I don’t agree with your argument on his critical errors, you make a salient point on the list of things required to pull sock puppeting off.

    • @mojofrododojo
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      156 days ago

      richest man in the world can’t be bothered to hire a couple of flunkies to sock puppet for him.

      jfc…

      • @[email protected]OP
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        66 days ago

        To have that, you need people you actually trust.

        Elon musk trusts no one. His circle is a bunch of yes men who have willingly sold their soul to agree with whatever crazy shit Musk wants.

        Musk is smart enough to know that. While also not smart enough to build a team he fully trusts.

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        136 days ago

        More evidence CEOs really don’t do much: He has the time to do this, despite being CEO of how many companies?

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        26 days ago

        I once tried to have a throwaway “talk crap about my job account” but it got a little boring and didn’t even provide catharsis since nobody engaged with it lol.

    • @Dkarma
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      146 days ago

      Someone’s read speaker for the dead 🤣

      Locke vs demonsthenes

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      76 days ago

      So instead of sock puppet he just demoted himself to “ban evading forum troll on the website he bought.” LOL