The wildly popular Ship of Fools site well known for it’s Mystery Worshipper section has uncovered a sock puppet  after a few complaints and a bit of digging. Needless to say Fr David Peters who praised himself through his sock puppet persona’s has been exposed and banished. The Ship of Fools account can be found at: 
The Mystery Bullshipper

Dave Walker starts with the story about online anonymity and the inherent dangers and helped bring the Ship of Fools priest story to light.

The Times Online covers the story of the sock puppeting priest at Ship of Fools

Definition of an Online Sock Puppet:

Sockpuppet (sometimes known also as a mule, glove puppet, alternate account, or joke account) is an additional account of an existing member of an Internet community to invent a separate user. This may be used for fictional support of separate people in a vote or argument by falsely using the account as a separate user, or for acting without consequence to one’s “main” account. It is often considered dishonest by online communities, and such pretending individuals are often labeled as trolls.

Although the “sock puppet” concept has been applied to different sender names of the same e-mail account on different computers, such alternate IDs to identify a particular computer may not always be for deception. via: Wikipedia