# Banned? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 12, 2001, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned/75883 "2001-08-12T05:33:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned/75883/42 "2001-08-17T03:17:06Z")
> [@](#): > > Question: if you have users using an ISP (or working at a large company) with a proxy server or NAT firewall, aren’t all users with that service going to have the same IP? So if a user got banned, then created a new ID, you wouldn’t really be able to tell if it was that user or a completely new one, right? Yeah, but the end-user cortical implants each have a unique MAC addr GHJTUHJTDGK Do Not Attempt To Conceal Your IP Address from The System! That is Forbidden! Do Not Attempt To Conceal Your IP Address from The System! That is Forbidden! Do Not Attempt To Conceal Your IP Address from The System! That is Forbidden! All Sock Puppets Must Be Neutralized! All Sock Puppets Must Be Neutralized! All Sock Puppets Must Be Neutralized! ---
**Author:** ![MysterEcks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MysterEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysterEcks)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned/75883/43 "2001-08-17T04:16:58Z")
I would like to move that this thread be taken out back and beaten to death with a shovel. Otherwise there’s just gonna be more of 'em show up. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned/75883/44 "2001-08-17T04:26:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by twistagainlikewedidlastyr \*You certainly ARE easily impressed, aren’t you. > I don’t suppose you ever considered that the banned ones might actually be familiar with the routine because they are regular posters? > And that the reason they don’t care if Lynn “bans” them is that they continue posting under their long established names? > Of course, I’m just guessing, based on the fact I was born yesterday, as you will soon “discover” by looking at the number under my post. Boy are you clever to comment on what everone else sees as obvious. Ah, the routine. You know, the routine has never got beyond the stage where I call on you (whoever you are) to back up your claims with something resembling proof. Actually, mainly I’m just curious as to what your “long established names” are. I have a some sort of suspicion that it’s not a poster I like and respect much, because I like to think of myself as a good judge of character on the boards. However, my faith in that would be shattered if it turned out that you also posted under the name **coldfire** or something. ---
**Author:** ![Lyllyan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@Lyllyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lyllyan)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned/75883/45 "2001-08-17T04:48:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MysterEcks \* > \*\*I would like to take this opportunity to say that the SDMB desperately needs an administrator called **Paul McCartney and Wings**. And a troll named **On The Run**. Because then it could happen that **Paul McCartney and Wings** banned **On The Run**. \*\* Puns are…ahh, nevermind ---
**Author:** ![warmgun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecccb3/32.png) [@warmgun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/warmgun)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned/75883/46 "2001-08-17T05:08:53Z")
Since, the ‘members’ area is closed, I gotta ask, is there a member named 'Sock Puppet"? Think anyone would know if I started a ‘new’ identity called ‘Coldfire’s sock-puppet’? JUST KIDDING!!! Oh, and here’s a shovel… … \>----D ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned/75883/47 "2001-08-17T06:49:50Z")
_:peers quizzically at waterj2’s second post:_ Wow, it’s like something out of _Star Trek_! “Fascinating Captain. Evidently some powerful entity–possibly a being from the Q continuum, or perhaps even a Moderator–has erased this post from the space-time continuum, yet, paradoxically, a _second_ post continues to refer to, and even quote from, the first.” “There’s no chance this ‘twisted’ whatchamajigger could actually escape through a rift in the fabric of existence and attack Earth, is there?” “I think not. Indeed, its consciousness may survive for some time, but only in the form of billions of bits, separate particles of information, forever drifting in cyberspace–powerless, shapeless, and without sustenance. We know it must post to remain alive.” “And it will never post again, not in the formless state it’s in.” ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned/75883/48 "2001-08-17T11:50:51Z")
> [@](#): > > Oh, and here’s a shovel… I’ll take this as a request to close this thing. And, yes, someone used the name Sock Puppet at one time. Oddly enough, we banned that name. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned/75883.md?page=2)