# I had to create this sock just to get through... **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 22, 2016, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-to-create-this-sock-just-to-get-through/752842 "2016-04-22T13:23:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-to-create-this-sock-just-to-get-through/752842/31 "2016-04-23T02:12:24Z")
During the outage, I could read the Board without being signed in. I saw this thread, so tried to create a sock of my own, thinking that would work like it did for the OP. But I couldn’t. There was something called Image Verification, but no image would appear for me to verify. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-to-create-this-sock-just-to-get-through/752842/32 "2016-04-23T02:23:41Z")
I had thought of this method around the log-in but to be frank I was just too lazy. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-to-create-this-sock-just-to-get-through/752842/33 "2016-04-23T02:26:14Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > I thought of creating a sock. Unfortunately, **sochrane** was about the best name I could come up with. I was gonna go with **Tube**. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_fun_ball/32/17664_2.png) [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-to-create-this-sock-just-to-get-through/752842/34 "2016-04-23T03:36:46Z")
Please delete the Happy Fun Sock account I made but was unable to log in with. Time to put the crusty thing back in the drawer as they say. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-to-create-this-sock-just-to-get-through/752842/36 "2016-04-23T05:14:10Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > I thought of creating a sock. Unfortunately, **sochrane** was about the best name I could come up with. The best I could do was “Sock2U”. I didn’t even bother. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-to-create-this-sock-just-to-get-through/752842/37 "2016-04-23T05:18:19Z")
> [@Missy2U](#): > > The best I could do was “Sock2U”. I didn’t even bother. Actually, “Sockit2U” would have been pretty good. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-to-create-this-sock-just-to-get-through/752842/38 "2016-04-23T06:41:50Z")
My sock account wouldn’t sign on, either. I guess that only makes me guilty of attempted sockery ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-to-create-this-sock-just-to-get-through/752842/39 "2016-04-23T07:15:03Z")
> [@TokyoBayer](#): > > My sock account wouldn’t sign on, either. I guess that only makes me guilty of attempted sockery Ah, so only the punishment is crucifixion instead of inverted crucifixion then. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-to-create-this-sock-just-to-get-through/752842/40 "2016-04-23T14:24:56Z")
Man, how boring am I? I figured the board was down, and I’d just wait. Didn’t even occur to me to try to create a sock. I coulda been “Slow Moving Sock”, I coulda been a contender! ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-to-create-this-sock-just-to-get-through/752842/41 "2016-04-23T15:02:09Z")
> [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](#): > > Please delete the Happy Fun Sock account I made but was unable to log in with. > > Time to put the crusty thing back in the drawer as they say. Until the next time you log onto the Happy Fun Ball website and their various lovely models? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Gay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ab097/32.png) [@Enola\_Gay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Gay)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-to-create-this-sock-just-to-get-through/752842/42 "2016-04-23T15:40:19Z")
i too am guilty of attempted sockery. But even my new sock was locked out. I’m jealous of you successful socks & don’t know why you were granted special privileges denied to the rest of us. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-to-create-this-sock-just-to-get-through/752842/43 "2016-04-23T16:14:53Z")
> [@Enola\_Gay](#): > > i too am guilty of attempted sockery. Yes, it made a mockery of us. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-to-create-this-sock-just-to-get-through/752842/44 "2016-04-23T16:49:26Z")
> [@Enola\_Gay](#): > > i too am guilty of attempted sockery. But even my new sock was locked out. I’m jealous of you successful socks & don’t know why you were granted special privileges denied to the rest of us. Me, too. And mine was a sock that would have made a big pan of cashew fudge for all of us to eat while we waited for the board to come back up. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-to-create-this-sock-just-to-get-through/752842/46 "2016-04-23T18:36:28Z")
**Moderator Note** Don’t worry, we won’t be banning folks or punishing them in any way for socking while they were having difficulties. Some of our moderator controls are not working properly, most likely a result of the extra protections that were put into place to get the board back up and running. We will remove the posting privileges from the socks once we get all of our moderator controls working properly again. Until then, please do not use the sock accounts that you created. If you still cannot access your main SDMB account at all, please let us know. If you are getting logged out and need to constantly re-login, we are aware of that issue. I don’t know if the tech folks will get to it over the weekend, but hopefully it will be fixed soon. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Gay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ab097/32.png) [@Enola\_Gay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Gay)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-to-create-this-sock-just-to-get-through/752842/47 "2016-04-23T23:18:41Z")
> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > **Moderator Note** > > If you still cannot access your main SDMB account at all, please let us know. I was able to log in this morning, no problem. Then for the past 4 hours or so I got the same message I got all day yesterday “Invalid username/pw. You have tried to log in too many times & are locked out for 15 minutes” or something to that effect. When I logged in with the sock I created yesterday it said “Welcome Sock 2” then took me to the main board, but the username & password fields were empty, so I wasn’t really logged in. I know it’s being worked on…just providing more symptoms, so TPTB can figure out how to solve it. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-to-create-this-sock-just-to-get-through/752842/48 "2016-04-25T00:24:43Z")
Banned on the run! ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-to-create-this-sock-just-to-get-through/752842/49 "2016-04-25T02:11:04Z")
> [@Enola\_Gay](#): > > When I logged in with the sock I created yesterday it said “Welcome Sock 2” then took me to the main board, but the username & password fields were empty, so I wasn’t really logged in. This, in itself, is something that has been complained of many many times over the past few years. Sign in, get the message “Welcome, whoever-you-are”, then you find you aren’t signed in after all. In the past, every time this began to happen more frequently, it seemed to be an early warning sign that the board performance was deteriorating, and a re-index or other such board maintenance was needed. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-to-create-this-sock-just-to-get-through/752842/50 "2016-04-25T08:31:24Z")
FTR **sockyfuzz2** was me, for all the good it did. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-to-create-this-sock-just-to-get-through/752842/51 "2016-04-25T21:49:23Z")
> [@Missy2U](#): > > The best I could do was “Sock2U”. I didn’t even bother. I was going to use **SockeyeMan** , but figured the reference would be lost without the context of my actual username. And not that funny even with context. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-to-create-this-sock-just-to-get-through/752842/52 "2016-04-26T06:32:33Z")
Or at least the sock was, as it should rightfully have been. I just tested to see what would happen, and it let me get past the initial screen to enter the user name and password, with the transition screen “Thank you Sock of Christmas Past” for signing in" or whatever it says, only to get screen saying I am denied access because of being banned for being a sock. It makes me wonder how people who get really banned feel. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-to-create-this-sock-just-to-get-through/752842.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-to-create-this-sock-just-to-get-through/752842.md?page=3)