# If you created a sock on SDMB, what would it do? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 1, 2015, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-created-a-sock-on-sdmb-what-would-it-do/716499 "2015-04-01T14:43:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![F.Pu-du-he-pa-as](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c89c15/32.png) [@F.Pu-du-he-pa-as](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.Pu-du-he-pa-as)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-created-a-sock-on-sdmb-what-would-it-do/716499/41 "2015-04-03T14:03:30Z")
I’d make up user names that were puns on the names of other posters and argue with them, inventing crazy backstories as I went along. You know, **oft bears cats** and **Unauthorized Cinnabon** and **SenorBeet** …thought I think I’m just going to stick with those for now, because I’m pretty sure they’ll think it’s funny. Right? Right? ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-created-a-sock-on-sdmb-what-would-it-do/716499/42 "2015-04-03T14:28:58Z")
Lurk for years. Finally post after several years to one of those “hey lurkers, why don’t you post” threads and get instabanned. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-created-a-sock-on-sdmb-what-would-it-do/716499/43 "2015-04-03T15:12:48Z")
Take over my identity, run me out of my life, and generally destroy me until the genetic kill-switch shuts off its metabolism and it dies. And troll. A lot. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-created-a-sock-on-sdmb-what-would-it-do/716499/44 "2015-04-03T17:34:49Z")
It would register with a cleverly cute pun for a username, since my real one is boring. And then it would get caught and get me banned and stuff. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-created-a-sock-on-sdmb-what-would-it-do/716499/45 "2015-04-03T17:47:44Z")
Imply that I was the sock of somebody else --somebody I wanted to get banned-- because they had the audacity to disagree with me about something political. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-created-a-sock-on-sdmb-what-would-it-do/716499/46 "2015-04-03T19:49:48Z")
> [@Hermitian](#): > > In the spirit of the day, [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=753147) made me think about socks on SDMB. > > If you were to create a sock, what would it do or say? Argue with yourself in GD? Agree with yourself? Insult the mods? > > Ask all the questions you were too embarrassed to do under your real name? > > Complain about your girlfriend not holding in her poop for a month? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-created-a-sock-on-sdmb-what-would-it-do/716499/47 "2015-04-03T19:52:57Z")
I’d like to fixate on one person and follow them around on this board. Never typing a word. Just quoting that persons last post and leaving a smilie face at the end. I wonder how long one could get away with this before getting banned? And how creepy would that be? ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-created-a-sock-on-sdmb-what-would-it-do/716499/48 "2015-04-03T20:17:49Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > I’d like to fixate on one person and follow them around on this board. > > Never typing a word. Just quoting that persons last post and leaving a smilie face at the end. > > I wonder how long one could get away with this before getting banned? And how creepy would that be? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-created-a-sock-on-sdmb-what-would-it-do/716499/49 "2015-04-03T20:29:26Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > 🙂 > [@OneCentStamp](#): > > 🙂 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-created-a-sock-on-sdmb-what-would-it-do/716499/50 "2015-04-04T03:28:28Z")
I read another (news/technical) board where registered users are also allowed to post anonymously. Anon posts need to be moderated more rigorously, but but they actually get used by normal users to (a) post comments that must not be traced back to their real job, and (b) post arguable opinions that they do not wish to argue about. 95%-98% of all comments are pasted with a user name, because, I gues, although you can post anonymously, wheres the fun in that? ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-created-a-sock-on-sdmb-what-would-it-do/716499/51 "2015-04-04T04:05:26Z")
> [@Hermitian](#): > > If you were to create a sock, what would it do or say? I might take the opportunity to let the Grapist live again for a day. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-created-a-sock-on-sdmb-what-would-it-do/716499/52 "2015-04-04T08:08:16Z")
My sock would post for me when I’ve been drinking. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-created-a-sock-on-sdmb-what-would-it-do/716499/53 "2015-04-04T17:43:24Z")
> [@Richard\_Pearse](#): > > I think I’d use it to post personal questions. “Now that I’m 40, why does my pee invariably spray in at least two wildly divergent streams?”, that sort of thing. Thread [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=753550)just for you. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-created-a-sock-on-sdmb-what-would-it-do/716499/54 "2015-04-05T02:09:41Z")
Get darned to heck, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-created-a-sock-on-sdmb-what-would-it-do/716499/55 "2015-04-05T03:01:03Z")
> [@](#): > > If you created a sock on SDMB, what would it do? It would agree with me. Of course, it would be obvious to everyone that it was a sock because no one agrees with me. 😛 But it would be nice, just once… ---
**Author:** ![Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ac8455/32.png) [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Your_Great_Darsh_Face)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-created-a-sock-on-sdmb-what-would-it-do/716499/56 "2015-04-05T07:41:56Z")
> [@XT](#): > > It would agree with me. Of course, it would be obvious to everyone that it was a sock because no one agrees with me. 😛 But it would be nice, just once… I agree. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-created-a-sock-on-sdmb-what-would-it-do/716499.md?page=2)