Both are forms of online trolling. However, they have a different definition.
Trolls Trolls like upseting people on the Internet by posting inflammatory, insulting or off-topic messages in an online community. It can be on a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog. They get pleased out of provoking emotional responses. They can be mean and spiteful and don't care. They may go under different nicks and come back doing the same thing again. Sockpuppets It's a person that creates many different fake IDs. They come on forums telling false stories. For example, someone can post about their SO cheating on them but the person is really single; the story is fictitious. They do for the sole purpose of both getting reaction from others and lying behind their screens. They can be nice in their posts though, but just liars.
Which is worse to you? Would you say a sockpuppet is just as bad as a troll or less?
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