"Microsoft uses bad performance reviews (“The How”) as a tool to eliminate the elder (40+) and senior ranked employees."
Proof please. This not only reeks of confirmation bias, but could it also be explained by resistance to acquire new skills in line with advances in fast-paced technological improvements?
Could you explain your position a little better? Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but it's not immediately clear to me how the proof being asked for was already obvious.
Also, I'm wondering how you know for sure that someone is a so-called "sockpupppet"? This is a skill I'd really like to master because reading people over the Internet is so difficult.
A sock puppet has no interest in actually participating in a discussion. It's only interested in harping on one side of a political debate. You ask for specifics and they just repeat a bunch of talking points.
Someone like this might be a sock puppet, but they might also just be an ideologue. A sock puppet will have created a login, assuming a login is necessary, just for the purpose of sock puppetry. An ideologue will stick around and argue other topics.
Sock puppets also like to work in teams, you'll see them in groups of two or three 'me-too'ing each other's points. If this happens, all of them will have created accounts specifically for that purpose. Sometimes they'll also all have the same IP address. This kind of manipulation is easy to detect, so generally you'll only see them rarely and in the short window between their spamming and the subsequent detection and banning.
Proof please. This not only reeks of confirmation bias, but could it also be explained by resistance to acquire new skills in line with advances in fast-paced technological improvements?