# Multiple User IDs or Accts **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 31, 2020, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-user-ids-or-accts/847285 "2020-01-31T12:41:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-user-ids-or-accts/847285/21 "2020-01-31T16:45:03Z")
> [@Sparky812](#): > > What argument could you make for allowing multiple IDs and the ensuing benefits? Not that I’m arguing in favor of allowing socks but there are questions I might ask and threads I might reply to using a different, more anonymous username but not with this one. Similarly, there have been some Email Me Your Secrets threads over the years that are pretty much the same thing. Like it or not, more apparent users might bolster the numbers for otherwise inattentive corporate ownership should we need to justify the Board’s existance. Along the same lines, socks could potentially be monetized. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-user-ids-or-accts/847285/22 "2020-01-31T17:23:55Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Some people think that “jumping the shark” means pushing an idea over the top, when in fact it refers to an episode of _Happy Days_, a television comedy program that aired in the 1970s and 1980s. The character of Arthur Fonzarelli, who was also called “Fonzie” or sometimes “The Fonz,” jumped over a shark while water skiing, which led to the expression “jumped the shark.” But the character was played by Henry Winkler, who went by _both_ Arthur Fonzarelli _and_ Barry Zuckercorn! And [he jumped sharks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWENaZN7bMM) _as both identities_! He should be banned. ---
**Author:** ![mjmlabs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mjmlabs/32/69_2.png) [@mjmlabs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mjmlabs)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-user-ids-or-accts/847285/23 "2020-01-31T17:24:40Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > …(initial research indicated the existence of a “Chuck” who it turned out didn’t exist). Never go upstairs!! ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-user-ids-or-accts/847285/24 "2020-01-31T18:14:06Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Furthermore, the character “Richie” was played by Ron Howard and the character “Joanie” was portrayed by Erin Moran. > > Although “Richie” and “Joanie” were brother and sister, Ron Howard and Erin Moran _are in no way related_! My understanding is that Ron Howard and Erin Moran are related, they’re just not related to each other. They are in fact related to _completely different people_. Odd, but true. ---
**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:** [January 31, 2020, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-user-ids-or-accts/847285/25 "2020-01-31T18:32:03Z")
> [@Bill\_Door](#): > > My understanding is that Ron Howard and Erin Moran are related, they’re just not related to each other. They are in fact related to _completely different people_. Odd, but true. Damn. I went to click the like button but then realized that I’m on a different board from the one that has said button. Odd that no one has ever suggested that. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-user-ids-or-accts/847285/26 "2020-01-31T18:47:06Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > One thing I’m curious about is why they waited until the 1970s to film a program set in the 1950s. > > They had to build a set that looked like a 1950s diner, and give the actors clothing and hairstyles from that time, and teach them to talk the way people talked back then. That seems like a lot of trouble to me! > > They could simply have made the show back in the 1950s. Or, set it in the 1970s if that’s when they were going to film it. But they didn’t. I wonder why? They didn’t get the time machine until the cartoon in the 80’s ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-user-ids-or-accts/847285/27 "2020-01-31T19:00:37Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > They didn’t get the time machine until the cartoon in the 80’s That doesn’t make any sense. Once you have a time machine, all you have to do is build another one and bring it back with you into the past. They could have had a time machine in the fifties. Unless of course; placing one time machine inside another creates a recursive loop that destroys the universe. Does anyone know anything about this? ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-user-ids-or-accts/847285/28 "2020-01-31T19:14:46Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Then why didn’t they film _That 70s Show_ back in the 70s? Why go to all that trouble of replicating 70s fashions, 70s cars, etc, when they could have saved all that money using existing locations, cars, appliances, and everything else? _Happy Days_ going over schedule pushed everything else back. Back in the halcyon days of [plastic.com](http://plastic.com), I used to make socks from time to time as a gag. For example, if someone was talking about Marshall McLuhan, I might make a sock account called Marshall McLuhan and post: > [@Marshall McLuhan](#): > > I heard what you were saying. You know nothing of my work. You mean my whole fallacy is wrong. How you ever got to teach a course in anything is totally amazing. It was fun and a couple of times I’ve wished I could do that on the dope but not doing so has not been a serious hardship. Oh, and if Happy Days was set in the fifties then what was up with Potsie’s hair style? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-user-ids-or-accts/847285/29 "2020-01-31T19:35:52Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > Oh, and if Happy Days was set in the fifties then what was up with Potsie’s hair style? I think it must be in some way related to the hair styler for D+D (named after Dungeons and Dragons, a Fantasy Role Playing Game that became popular in the 1980s), or Game of Thrones which I think is based on a book series. They both had characters with modern looking hair. I don’t see why they couldn’t make all of their hair look like it did before modern times. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-user-ids-or-accts/847285/30 "2020-01-31T20:06:54Z")
I used to play D&D back in the '70s. Well, cool kids did and I always wished they’d invite me. It sounded like a lot of fun. Anyway D&D existed before the '80s. ---
**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, 2020, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-user-ids-or-accts/847285/31 "2020-01-31T20:26:52Z")
Harry Boyle was a sock created by Howard Cunningham (unless it was the other way around). Both of them were inspired by threads about American-style love. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-user-ids-or-accts/847285/32 "2020-01-31T20:28:22Z")
> [@Bill\_Door](#): > > That doesn’t make any sense. Once you have a time machine, all you have to do is build another one and bring it back with you into the past. They could have had a time machine in the fifties. Unless of course; placing one time machine inside another creates a recursive loop that destroys the universe. Does anyone know anything about this? Nicola Tesla accidentally destroyed the universe almost a hundred years ago. Everything since then has been the simulation running on Charles Babbage’s Universal Engine. Unfortunately, the gears are wearing out and becoming whopperjawed. You might have noticed some strange stuff happening recently. ---
**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, 2020, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-user-ids-or-accts/847285/33 "2020-01-31T20:32:26Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > Nicola Tesla accidentally destroyed the universe almost a hundred years ago. Everything since then has been the simulation running on Charles Babbage’s Universal Engine. Unfortunately, the gears are wearing out and becoming whopperjawed. You might have noticed some strange stuff happening recently. I think the critical catalytic event somehow got itself anchored to a date in early November, 2016… ---
**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:** [January 31, 2020, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-user-ids-or-accts/847285/34 "2020-01-31T21:01:45Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > Nicola Tesla accidentally destroyed the universe almost a hundred years ago. Everything since then has been the simulation running on Charles Babbage’s Universal Engine. Unfortunately, the gears are wearing out and becoming whopperjawed. You might have noticed some strange stuff happening recently. And all that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-user-ids-or-accts/847285/35 "2020-01-31T21:31:48Z")
Tesla himself created the sock puppet of Emmett “Doc” Brown when he supposedly “died” in 1943, so he could continue to work away from public attention. Unfortunately, he failed to judge the side effects of his work and transported himself back to 1885, where he (Brown) coexisted in the same timeline with him (Tesla). Tesla attempted to repair the rift in the time continuum by staging the death of Brown in a spectacular locomotive crash, but by then the sock puppet had achieved autonomy and appeared in not just 1885 and 1955, but also 1985 and 2015. The sock puppet Brown would/will also become a Klingon commander who kills James Kirk’s son in Earth year 2286. And THAT’S why the SDMB bans socks! ---
**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:** [January 31, 2020, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-user-ids-or-accts/847285/36 "2020-01-31T21:38:18Z")
The Brown sock was also a drug-addled New York cab driver and ordained minister in the year 1978. He was known as “Reverend Jim.” ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-user-ids-or-accts/847285/37 "2020-01-31T22:05:23Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > The Brown sock was also a drug-addled New York cab driver and ordained minister in the year 1978. He was known as “Reverend Jim.” I myself own a pair of brown socks that I never get to wear because I only own two suits, one of which is gray and the other one is blue. I’m not sure what they have to do with Nicola Tesla though. ---
**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, 2020, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-user-ids-or-accts/847285/38 "2020-01-31T22:40:41Z")
The best kind of socks are the warm, extra fuzzy ones. I have a whole drawer full of them, including ones that are black and gold, for my favorite sports’ teams. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-user-ids-or-accts/847285/39 "2020-01-31T22:43:09Z")
> [@Charlie\_Wayne](#): > > They are detected when both IDs are created using the same IP address. As far as being “pointless”, the point is that they would be assumed to intend to post at a later date. As you said, “intent matters” and I agree with you. It takes quite a bit more than just having the same IP to even suspect a sock, let alone detect it. Computers on the Internet have a private IP and a public IP. The public IP is the one that the website sees when it checks where the traffic is coming from. The private IP is what goes to a specific computer, and it’s not visible to the websites you visit. In most cases everyone in the same house will share the same public IP, and it’s more common than not that everyone in an office building (or even sometimes an apartment building) will share a public IP. In the school system where I worked for ten years there was one public IP shared among 4 buildings spread out across town. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2020, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-user-ids-or-accts/847285/40 "2020-02-01T02:24:09Z")
Shoe stores shouldn’t have those cheap, single-use socks to give out. If you go shoe shopping without wearing socks, I say, fuck you, buy some socks or go home. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-user-ids-or-accts/847285.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-user-ids-or-accts/847285.md?page=3)