# JohnClay, if I might have a word... (not about dieting, I promise) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 16, 2016, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnclay-if-i-might-have-a-word-not-about-dieting-i-promise/752403 "2016-04-16T21:14:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnclay-if-i-might-have-a-word-not-about-dieting-i-promise/752403/121 "2017-01-30T19:58:40Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > **4kad** just joined and very quickly got fixated on dieting and food. ISTM that combined with the posting style in the linked thread are good reasons to suspect a **JC** sock. Except that **JohnClay** was, I believe, Australian. The new user, **4kad** is posting about the Superbowl and in threads about American/gridiron football. Seems unlikely to be the same person. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnclay-if-i-might-have-a-word-not-about-dieting-i-promise/752403/122 "2017-01-30T20:41:48Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > That isn’t any reason to bring back the Pit thread on him. This is the only forum in which accusations of socking are allowed and I don’t care enough to start a new thread. If TPTB have investigated and found no issue, no skin of my nose. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnclay-if-i-might-have-a-word-not-about-dieting-i-promise/752403/123 "2017-01-31T00:01:15Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Except that **JohnClay** was, I believe, Australian. The new user, **4kad** is posting about the Superbowl and in threads about American/gridiron football. Seems unlikely to be the same person. Really? I thought he was an American expat living in Trinidad & Tobago. Am I thinking of someone else? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnclay-if-i-might-have-a-word-not-about-dieting-i-promise/752403/124 "2017-01-31T00:14:04Z")
You’re thinking of someone else. On JohnClay’s About Me page, the location is “Australia”. ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnclay-if-i-might-have-a-word-not-about-dieting-i-promise/752403/125 "2017-01-31T00:19:19Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > You’re thinking of someone else. On JohnClay’s About Me page, the location is “Australia”. He’s thinking of grude. ---
**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 31, 2017, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnclay-if-i-might-have-a-word-not-about-dieting-i-promise/752403/126 "2017-01-31T01:03:42Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > That isn’t any reason to bring back the Pit thread on him. > > Dude was banned because his mental illness was so bad that the mods thought it was unhealthy for him to post here. Even if it is him, he doesn’t need this shit started up again. > > The mods can take care of it. They made their bed in allowing themselves to ban someone who didn’t break any of the rules, and now they have to deal with it. FWI, the guy was banned from Giraffe Boards for posting child porn. ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnclay-if-i-might-have-a-word-not-about-dieting-i-promise/752403/127 "2017-01-31T01:20:41Z")
:eek: ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnclay-if-i-might-have-a-word-not-about-dieting-i-promise/752403/128 "2017-01-31T01:34:42Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > **4kad** just joined and very quickly got fixated on dieting and food. ISTM that combined with the posting style in the linked thread are good reasons to suspect a **JC** sock. Food & diet were never **JC’s** pet topics. He only fixated on that because he was forbidden from discussing his real pet topics, such as how fat & ugly his wife was. He also had the habit of posting enormous walls of text and replying to every single trivial detail, often making five or six posts in a row, including links to other posts he made on this website and others. The new guy doesn’t seem to be doing that at all. ---
**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:** [January 31, 2017, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnclay-if-i-might-have-a-word-not-about-dieting-i-promise/752403/129 "2017-01-31T02:41:48Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > This is the only forum in which accusations of socking are allowed and I don’t care enough to start a new thread. > > If TPTB have investigated and found no issue, no skin of my nose. So send a PM to a MOD about your concerns and be done with it. There was absolutely NO reason for you to bump this thread. And I hope the MODS close it. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnclay-if-i-might-have-a-word-not-about-dieting-i-promise/752403/130 "2017-01-31T06:58:07Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > This is the only forum in which accusations of socking are allowed and I don’t care enough to start a new thread. In the future, might I suggest caring _even less_, and not bumping old threads about banned posters? Thread closed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnclay-if-i-might-have-a-word-not-about-dieting-i-promise/752403.md?page=6)