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04 April 2014

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These suspected socks are very similar in behaviour to the already indefinitely blocked User:Techastrax, the master sock who was already a sock of User:Ichek. Several other socks of him were blocked but new ones are turning up all the time at List of countries by average wage, which has been abused by sock puppets for a substantial time, where they're essentially reverting the prevailing consensus held by legitimate users and trying to create a fake "consensus" by themselves by using socks to write comments in their favour, which are all from users coming out of nowhere with no edit history and created a couple of days or weeks ago. The above list of socks and IPs are all reverting the edit version currently held by consensus from legitimate editors, and have virtually no edit history and clearly Single Purpose Accounts. Massyparcer (talk) 16:34, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

Update: As requested, I hereby provide diffs for the sockpuppets:

1. Behaviour of mastersock (User:Techastrax): Reverting the list to using exchange rates instead of PPP -

2. Behaviour of socks emulating the mastersock:
 * User:Colioneros:, , ,
 * User:Zboubox:, , - Currently the most active sock from what I can see.
 * User:172.254.70.161:, , - This IP even threatened an editor to ban him because reverting to the legitimate consensus is "vandalism". Huh..
 * User:216.139.138.217:, - This user came out of nowhere, reverted it and disappeared..hit and run tactic I guess.
 * User:216.139.138.217:, , - Another hit and run guy..I hope the pattern is very obvious by now.

Update 2:
 * User:216.139.138.217:, - A new sock emulating the mastersock has showed up yet again..after the case was closed down. I think these socks are being created all the time so it's too early to close this case now.. Massyparcer (talk) 15:43, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

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 * Moved from Sockpuppet investigations/Techastrax to Sockpuppet investigations/Ichek. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 11:52, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
 * King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 11:54, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
 * - Per above. Diff for Icheck: . At this time it's not clear if they're all part of one sock family, or if one or more of them are not related. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 21:27, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
 * . ​—DoRD (talk)​ 21:39, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
 * All socks and recent IPs blocked, closing. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 21:45, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
 * . ​—DoRD (talk)​ 21:39, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
 * All socks and recent IPs blocked, closing. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 21:45, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
 * . ​—DoRD (talk)​ 21:39, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
 * All socks and recent IPs blocked, closing. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 21:45, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
 * . ​—DoRD (talk)​ 21:39, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
 * All socks and recent IPs blocked, closing. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 21:45, 10 April 2014 (UTC)