What I don't understand is that Paloma joined this board in 2010. Talk about a long con if she is a puppet! The frequency of posting shouldn't matter, it's having been signed up for years and having contributed kind and thoughtful posts that impact readers positively.
What about Paloma could possibly trigger the sock accusation? The fact that she had a positive comment about another poster with whom some people are currently disagreeing? That's a bit shallow. It is possible to be 60/40 or 80/20 about somebody. It doesn't have to always be 100% against. So you can disagree with a person's opinions, comments or actions while still finding something good to say about them.
Nightingale,
If you're responding to me, then point taken. I haven't looked at P's stats at all. You're absolutely right that given the posting history of P it would be extraordinarily unlikely for him/her to be a sockpuppet of someone having issues recently, and especially someone who doesn't show a high aptitude for long-con sockpuppetry.
I was just assuming, without investigating, that s/he had just joined recently. I was throwing out reasons why people on the board might be inclined to see a sockpuppet even when the person hadn't done anything wrong.
I also see LDSTorronto as a man of high moral character. I can see the misunderstanding.
Anyway, at this point, it doesn't look like anyone thinks Paloma is a sock, so the matter seems to have worked itself out.
