OK folks.
100 sockpuppet accounts have matured, they're over 1 year old and actually have some posting history on various subs.
They're slowly integrating into /r/npc to attack BABcoin community from within.
They're playing the role right now of useful community members, helping and being nice. This will give them maximum exposure possible when they eventually all go rogue.
We'll probably need 1,000+ to infiltrate /r/bitcoin but don't worry they've already been born and have plenty of time to mature before they are needed. Destroying BABcoin is always a practice for the bigger goal of BTC which is also largely a PoSM coin but with lots of hash.
Now don't worry - these attacks cannot be used against BSV and I'll explain why.
First we need to examine the purpose of a sockpuppet.
Sockpuppets are designed to change the minds and focus of community members, to invent false narratives and to support bad ideas. Why? Well the eventual aim is to get these ideas into code - to change the protocol.
For example 100 sockpuppets stating "I think our blocksize limit of 32MB is good enough for now" is in effect limiting the blocksize.
Or 100 sockpuppets stating "Let's add feature X it's really cool" is really an attack on the protocol, using PoSM to encourage developers to add feature X.
And finally 100 sockpuppets can say "I don't like Developer Z, let's remove him from the community" is an interesting attack to remove Developer Z as perhaps he was most competent on the team.
So the basic idea is the sockpuppets ultimate goal is to interfere with development.
Now if you have a unlimited block size (or that's set in stone on your roadmap) and your protocol is locked down (nobody can change it or even suggest changing it, not even the most highly valued developer) then all sockpuppets can do is piss people off and try to cause price manipulation, rather than actually attack BSV.
Sockpuppets caused a great deal of damage with the original BTC by supporting Segwit etc... and campaigining to keep 1MB blocksize so their power has been proven time and time again.
It's obvious that there is no way to defeat sockpuppets other than making the goal of their actions useless - remove humans from dictating the protocol as humans are easily influenced by "other humans" (or in this case sockpuppets and useless non-thinking idiots who follow the sockpuppets). This is why first the sockpuppets need to build a rapport of being "a valued community member" so just like the Pied Piper of Hamlin they can get the BABies to follow them into the river!
This is the difference between a army of sockpuppets who just downvote posts or upvote dumb videos. Sockpuppets really need to communicate with the members and become their friends, this is hard and requires manpower - but not that much if you've been working on automated systems and tools to help you as if you really do delve into the content at /r/npc they have their narratives, and the narratives are always the same. Every time Roger Ver posts just by posting something like "great!" "cool!" "love it!" which is really a randomised selection of 1 of 3 comments then you've already got some upvotes, already got a bit of "up vote karma".
Likewise if you can spot the downvoted posts/comments it's probably someone telling the truth (these are usually the most down voted) but if your sockpuppet can infer the subject of the conversation and present a simple hotkey response for a reasonably trained operator earning $5 a day in Venezuela then providing you are right most of the time, your comment attacking the bad-guy (the one who got down voted) gets upvoted, and you earn more karma and more community respect.
Add into this the few manual tasks from time to time of posting some nice memes, or posting a useful guide or perhaps even a external resource such as a blog or some site you've created to be a useful resource you get maximum karma and good community standing quicker.
When you add this all together and have your sockpuppets upvoting your other sockpuppets then you can see how quickly goals can be acheived.
Also there's the time-honoured tradition of "vouching". A few sock puppets can be totally manual (e.g. Greg Maxwell's) which proving you use them carefully (unlike Greg Maxwell) then you can do wonders. And you can then vouch for your other sockpuppets (even semi-automated ones) so for the BABy he has real problems unravelling the massive chain of deceit as "how can SockpuppetB be bad when my trusted online-friend who I sometimes PM SockpuppetA said he was good and could be trusted". Rapidly one loses the chain of trust, and the higher up the chain you go the quicker you get into closed and private communities and special sections for the BABies who are more equal than others. This is why Proof of Work matters, but even then whilst rogues have made fake wallet software to steal bitcoins, I know there are useful BABcoin tools being written with the idea of being sold specifically for patent violations to be prosecuted once they have new owners (here's looking at you Salty Roger). It's a big big game, and there's big stakes.
Until AI is able to dictate protocol (it can't and will never be able to) then the only way is to freeze protocol to avoid these attacks. BSV is almost there.
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