User blog comment:Plain'N'Simple/There was a time when Edwin aspired to be a good person./@comment-27516045-20191227142329/@comment-39541634-20191229130507

Username, I already told you why he picked me as a target: I'm the only person here who realises the extent of his sockpuppetry. I am quite certain that he has at least a few benign-looking sockpuppets around.

I know that you are skeptical. I even understand why. It's one of those wacky paranoid-sounding notions that we don't even consider in ordinary circumstances.

But these aren't ordinary circumstances, are they? Let me ask you a few questions:

(1) Given what you already know about Edwin, does my assessment really sound that unreasonable?

(2) When Edwin started trolling, he openly admitted that his plan includes precisely the kind of benign-looking sockpuppets I'm talking about. He openly admitted that his plan is to create so many accounts that it will be impossible to tell which is which, and thus we'll be forced to accept him. Do you have any reason to doubt that this is exactly what he did? Does the evidence around you suggests that he didn't do exactly what he stated that he'll do?

(3) Recently, we've had quite a few new members whose first "contribution" was attacking me, or other kinds of borderline-suspicious activity. What are the odds, in your view, that such a person is an Edwin sockpuppet?

(4) If my claims were baseless, why did Edwin go berserk every time I've made them? Shouldn't he be happy that I'm creating mayhem by casting suspicion on innocent people? That should have been right down his alley... unless, of-course, I've unraveled something true, and that scares the sh*t out of him.

(5) Why has Edwin picked me as is target in the first place? Why does he continue to attack and redicule me, even though I'm no longer giving him any fun? And why does his bullying so often take the form of attempts to ruin my reputation? Doesn't all this seem just a little bit excessive, for a troll who just wants to have some fun at my expense?

Food for thought.

Of-course, we do not have any way to know for certain which usernames are sockpuppets, and randomly suspecting people would obviously be a bad idea as well.

But can we, at the very least, agree to be cautious?