# Can you call admitted socks socks?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-call-admitted-socks-socks/673421
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**Created:** [November 8, 2013, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-call-admitted-socks-socks/673421 "2013-11-08T13:37:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2013, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-call-admitted-socks-socks/673421/1 "2013-11-08T13:37:02Z")
> [@](#):
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> “Small reasons” like “already having been permanently banned from this forum”? I can’t name a single forum where that isn’t a criteria for permanent banning. Usually IP banning.
This speaking about a user who admitted just two posts ago to being a member that was banned just yesterday. Or is this also against the rules in GD?
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### Author:  [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2013, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-call-admitted-socks-socks/673421/2 "2013-11-08T13:41:06Z")
I pretty much already did. I guess we’ll see if I get modded.
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2013, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-call-admitted-socks-socks/673421/3 "2013-11-08T13:52:21Z")
This is the person in question
saveamale
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=707175](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=707175)
forhowlong1
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=707266](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=707266)
Assuming the mods don’t delete the threads.
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2013, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-call-admitted-socks-socks/673421/4 "2013-11-08T14:03:14Z")
In the Pit (with that first thread) all bets are off anyway. But if the poster admits it I don’t see the harm. I did remove the second thread **Peter Morris** linked to, though. Sorry about that.
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### Author:  [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2013, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-call-admitted-socks-socks/673421/5 "2013-11-08T14:04:26Z")
No, that was definitely the way to go. 😃 Thanks for clarification.
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2013, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-call-admitted-socks-socks/673421/6 "2013-11-08T14:25:30Z")
In other forums besides the Pit, it would be better to report the situation and let the mods deal with it rather than bring it up in the thread. Even if the poster admits socking (or seems to), discussion within the thread may produce a hijack or other derailing of the thread.
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### Author:  [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2013, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-call-admitted-socks-socks/673421/7 "2013-11-08T14:37:00Z")
The only thing I could add is that the most prudent thing to do when dealing with admitted socks is to hit the ‘Report a Post’ button and let us deal with it.
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2013, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-call-admitted-socks-socks/673421/8 "2013-11-08T14:45:44Z")
That’s the first thing people should do. Report the post first, then start thinking up your best zingers.
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### Author:  [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2013, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-call-admitted-socks-socks/673421/9 "2013-11-08T15:06:13Z")
Too bad, in a way. The Pit thread was fun, if for no other reason than this exchange -
> [@me](#):
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> Look, dude, we’re sorry you can’t get laid.
> [@Marley23](#):
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> No we’re not.
😃
Regards,
Shodan
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### Author:  [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2013, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-call-admitted-socks-socks/673421/10 "2013-11-08T15:09:35Z")
OK, that was pretty funny.