# Always forget where to ask about bannings... **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 29, 2009, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/always-forget-where-to-ask-about-bannings/483523 "2009-01-29T08:36:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/always-forget-where-to-ask-about-bannings/483523/1 "2009-01-29T08:36:28Z")
I can’t remember if I’m supposed to post in the pit, ATMB, or to PM a mod. So if I’m wrong feel free to jackboot this thread off to the netherworld. That said, what happened to **Merkwurdigliebe**? Didn’t get any warnings I saw, so I assume a sock-- is that true? ---
**Author:** ![leander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bcef8e/32.png) [@leander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leander)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/always-forget-where-to-ask-about-bannings/483523/2 "2009-01-29T09:01:35Z")
> **[Member Merkwurdigliebe has been banned](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=502322)** > > We banned Merkwurdigliebe this evening after he made this post under a new account, Ford Red Robot. He’d also posted today under his own name. Before he signed up as Merkwurdigliebe in December 2003, he posted for about eight months as futureman. ... ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/always-forget-where-to-ask-about-bannings/483523/3 "2009-01-30T02:45:10Z")
Don’t tell me HE was a sock for **Hombre/warmgun/dark\_cool/etc** too? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/always-forget-where-to-ask-about-bannings/483523/4 "2009-01-30T02:46:02Z")
Yep. The show just keeps getting weirder and weirder. ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/always-forget-where-to-ask-about-bannings/483523/5 "2009-01-30T02:48:47Z")
Since I’ve been on the SDMB, there have been two times I’ve had complete “WTF is going on???” moments. This is one of them. ---
**Author:** ![milquetoast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@milquetoast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milquetoast)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/always-forget-where-to-ask-about-bannings/483523/6 "2009-01-30T02:54:07Z")
While we’re on the topic, why was **Don’t fight the hypothetical** banned? Was he a fourth identity in the **Hombre/warmgum/darkcool** [charade](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=504156), or was that just a coincidence? ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/always-forget-where-to-ask-about-bannings/483523/7 "2009-01-30T02:56:59Z")
> [@milquetoast](#): > > While we’re on the topic, why was **Don’t fight the hypothetical** banned? [Multiple sock](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=504259), apparently. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/always-forget-where-to-ask-about-bannings/483523/8 "2009-01-30T02:59:21Z")
OK, come clean – there’s just me and one other poster with about 55,000 screen names, isn’t there? ---
**Author:** ![milquetoast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@milquetoast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milquetoast)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/always-forget-where-to-ask-about-bannings/483523/9 "2009-01-30T03:00:09Z")
Thanks, **Q.E.D.** I’m always a few minutes behind the times. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/always-forget-where-to-ask-about-bannings/483523/10 "2009-01-30T03:04:11Z")
JESUS!!! Not ANOTHER one! :eek: > [@Q.E.D](#): > > [Multiple sock](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=504259), apparently. Perhaps we should merge our two threads-(I know you’re not the OP) Damn, this is probably the biggest sock ring since **Serlin** and oh, what’s his name, something with a “c”? (It was slightly before my time) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/always-forget-where-to-ask-about-bannings/483523/11 "2009-01-30T03:04:32Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Don’t tell me HE was a sock for **Hombre/warmgun/dark\_cool/etc** too? :eek: Yup. I thought I hinted at that directly enough in the last post but it was obviously more clear in my own mind. Those four accounts were the same guy. When **warmgun** got banned years ago, he started a thread about it with another one of his socks, and he did the same thing today. I guess he thought nobody would suspect it. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/always-forget-where-to-ask-about-bannings/483523/12 "2009-01-30T03:08:05Z")
He apparently fought the hypothetical. ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/always-forget-where-to-ask-about-bannings/483523/13 "2009-01-30T03:09:22Z")
It seems to me that Guinistasia has had some quite similar posts as that guy. Starting a thread about it as well…hmm… ---
**Author:** ![leander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bcef8e/32.png) [@leander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leander)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/always-forget-where-to-ask-about-bannings/483523/14 "2009-01-30T03:11:19Z")
> [@Santo\_Rugger](#): > > Since I’ve been on the SDMB, there have been two times I’ve had complete “WTF is going on???” moments. This is one of them. So…what was the other time? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/always-forget-where-to-ask-about-bannings/483523/15 "2009-01-30T03:14:28Z")
That sucks! I liked Don’t Fight the Hypothetical! ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/always-forget-where-to-ask-about-bannings/483523/16 "2009-01-30T03:14:28Z")
Usually these go in ATMB, so I’m going to merge the threads and move them there. There’s no connection between **Merkwurdigliebe** and the stuff today with **Don’t fight the hypothetical**. I found **Merkwurdigliebe** had a few sock accounts last week when he registered a new one. **Don’t fight the hypothetical** outed three of his socks by accident this week when he started that mouthwash thread twice. I found a third account at that time. **Don’t fight the hypothetical** then started a thread to ask about those bannings, which was a tipoff - he’d done that before under other names. We don’t usually go into this stuff, but I did announce Merkwurdigliebe’s banning because he was on the board a long time. And this whole thing is pretty confusing so it merits an explanation. ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/always-forget-where-to-ask-about-bannings/483523/17 "2009-01-30T03:57:48Z")
> [@leander](#): > > So…what was the other time? 🙂 I don’t remember if it was when I found out about the Snark pit, when the whole **prr/Liberal** thing went down, or something else. It’s been awhile, I don’t remember exactly. Could have been one of the 15+ page pit threads, too. ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/always-forget-where-to-ask-about-bannings/483523/18 "2009-01-30T03:58:54Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Yup. I thought I hinted at that directly enough in the last post but it was obviously more clear in my own mind. Those four accounts were the same guy. When **warmgun** got banned years ago, he started a thread about it with another one of his socks, and he did the same thing today. I guess he thought nobody would suspect it. FWIW, I gave that post a mental applause, and immediately checked the OP to see if that was really what you meant. I was going to give a written applause in the thread, but some dickfart locked it first. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/always-forget-where-to-ask-about-bannings/483523/19 "2009-01-30T03:59:03Z")
> [@Captain\_Amazing](#): > > He apparently fought the hypothetical. - Sings \* - "I fought the hypothetical and the hypothetical won !"\* ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/always-forget-where-to-ask-about-bannings/483523/20 "2009-01-30T04:07:13Z")
You’re joking! Too funny! I can’t believe he did that to himself! (DFTH, et. al., I mean. Not Merkwurdwhatever.) Too bad he didn’t “speculate” about the motives of the multiple sock-people. That would have been surreal. (not **Surreal** , though wouldn’t it be funny if **Surreal** turned out to be yet another sock for the guy? I think my head would just up and explode!) Hmmm…perhaps “starting a thread about mouthwash” should be a new way of saying “doing something really really inexplicably dumb.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/always-forget-where-to-ask-about-bannings/483523.md?page=2)