# Need help defining a moral dilemma. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 7, 2001, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-defining-a-moral-dilemma/80222 "2001-09-07T13:31:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [September 8, 2001, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-defining-a-moral-dilemma/80222/41 "2001-09-08T01:38:19Z")
Gotcha. I just didn’t want someone to see the two different IPs, and say, hey, wait a minute… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-defining-a-moral-dilemma/80222/42 "2001-09-08T02:49:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zette \* > \*\*Whoopie! My first mod flirt 🙂 > > So manny- how YOU doin’?\*\* You _beeeeeyatch_!! Remind me to never comment on your boobs again. Sheesh. ---
**Author:** ![Cleophus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@Cleophus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cleophus)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-defining-a-moral-dilemma/80222/43 "2001-09-08T04:35:31Z")
I wouldn’t sweat it. There’s still **jarbabyj** , **Eve** , **Kricket** , **Guinastasia** , **Pammipoo** …sigh… ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-defining-a-moral-dilemma/80222/44 "2001-09-08T04:46:47Z")
> [@](#): > > As MEBuckner noted recently, the rules also disallow “inaccurate” posts. Hmmm…I think the Registration Agreement says that _knowingly_ posting inaccurate information is against the rules. Honestly being wrong is one thing. Hey, if we hang around here long enough we all learn stuff we didn’t know. But _knowing_ something is untrue, and posting it anyway, is trolling and is quite bannable. ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-defining-a-moral-dilemma/80222/45 "2001-09-08T17:50:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > \*\*Gotcha. I just didn’t want someone to see the two different IPs, and say, hey, wait a minute… > 😉 \*\* Oh,.sure. You’re probably **Gaudere** , **Andros** and **Clark K** too, ain’tcha? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-defining-a-moral-dilemma/80222/46 "2001-09-08T17:51:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MEBuckner \* > \*\* Hey, if we hang around here long enough we all learn stuff we didn’t know. But _knowing_ something is untrue, and posting it anyway, is trolling and is quite bannable. \*\* Ah, would that it were so. We have several members, whom I’m pretty confident that you can identify if you think about it, who hang around for months or even years and don’t learn a blessed thing. Kind of a pity, really. ---
**Author:** ![Poirot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@Poirot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poirot)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-defining-a-moral-dilemma/80222/47 "2001-09-09T17:22:35Z")
You got that right. I think UncleBeer has been on a dozen threads where IP addresses have been explained, and the information has never been absorbed. ---
**Author:** ![Poirot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@Poirot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poirot)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-defining-a-moral-dilemma/80222/48 "2001-09-09T17:24:57Z")
Unless, of course, he _knows_ what he posts is untrue, but does it anyway. You would know the difference though, because…? ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-defining-a-moral-dilemma/80222/49 "2001-09-09T18:05:24Z")
> [@](#): > > So, the reason people use socks is… > > Say! I just realized that you’re right. All people who use socks are losers. Like Ed/Cecil, and Czarcasm on the Roundtable board, and … let’s see, didn’t Lynn use a sock once? And a couple others, as I recall. Even sainted UncleBeer on the sock forum. Hmmm? I don’t see anywhere that anyone said “All people who use socks are losers.” You are either not capable of reading, or you are simply making it up as you go along. I suppose there is fun in being a lying whiner, but I have never figured out what it is. ---
**Author:** ![Elenfair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cc9497/32.png) [@Elenfair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elenfair)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-defining-a-moral-dilemma/80222/50 "2001-09-09T18:05:29Z")
::: enter Elenfair, her hair tucked under a bandana, muttering to herself as she carries a basket of laudry under her arm ::: mod’ratin’…fucking thankless job… _mutter_… always lose socks… turn up in the Pit airing out dirty laundry… _mutter_… ::: exit Elenfair :::: ---
**Author:** ![Elenfair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cc9497/32.png) [@Elenfair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elenfair)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-defining-a-moral-dilemma/80222/51 "2001-09-09T18:07:07Z")
::: stalks back into the thread :::: ::: bends over to pick up the “n” she dropped out of the “laundry” basket :::: _mutter mutter mutter_ ::: walks out again :::: ---
**Author:** ![Pink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/71c47a/32.png) [@Pink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pink)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-defining-a-moral-dilemma/80222/52 "2001-09-09T20:18:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tomndebb \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > So, the reason people use socks is… > > > > Say! I just realized that you’re right. All people who use socks are losers. Like Ed/Cecil, and Czarcasm on the Roundtable board, and … let’s see, didn’t Lynn use a sock once? And a couple others, as I recall. Even sainted UncleBeer on the sock forum. > > Hmmm? I don’t see anywhere that anyone said “All people who use socks are losers.” You are either not capable of reading, or you are simply making it up as you go along. > > I suppose there is fun in being a lying whiner, but I have never figured out what it is. \*\* Are you saying that the following is not indicative to you of loserhood? [QUOTE] \*Originally posted by John C. \* \*\* > [@](#): > > Reason #1 I wouldn’t call immoral; but it is still against the rules, and will get a person banned. > > Reason #2 I would call pathetic. > > Reason #3 I would call cowardly _and_ pathetic.\*\* Well, fine, then you are not a loser, but cowardly _and_ pathetic. (Those asterisks are a bit pre-teen, aren’t they John? But soo cute of you to use!) OK, so now you are the lying whiner, so you must be able to tell us all what is so much fun. Or aren’t you having fun any more? (And what’s with tomanddebb? The asshole so nice they named it twice?) ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-defining-a-moral-dilemma/80222/53 "2001-09-09T21:04:05Z")
You will notice that they were multiple choice. (Had you stayed in school beyond the first grade you’d have recognized that.) This means that only one of the answers may be true. Option #1 makes no judgement on the quality of the person who has used a sock, noting only that it will get the person in trouble on this board. Therefore, it is _still true_ to say that no one said “All people who use socks are losers.” And it is still true to note that you are either not capable of reading, or you are simply making it up as you go along. That would tend to reinforce my opinion that I suppose there is fun in being a lying whiner, but I have never figured out what it is. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2001, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-defining-a-moral-dilemma/80222/54 "2001-09-09T21:54:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by manhattan \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > > \*\*Gotcha. I just didn’t want someone to see the two different IPs, and say, hey, wait a minute… > > 😉 \*\* > > Oh,.sure. You’re probably **Gaudere** , **Andros** and **Clark K** too, ain’tcha? 😉 \*\* What? Oh SHIT!!! Dammit! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Cleophus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@Cleophus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cleophus)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2001, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-defining-a-moral-dilemma/80222/55 "2001-09-10T00:44:13Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by Pink \* \*\* > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tomndebb \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > So, the reason people use socks is… > > > > Say! I just realized that you’re right. All people who use socks are losers. Like Ed/Cecil, and Czarcasm on the Roundtable board, and … let’s see, didn’t Lynn use a sock once? And a couple others, as I recall. Even sainted UncleBeer on the sock forum. > > Hmmm? I don’t see anywhere that anyone said “All people who use socks are losers.” You are either not capable of reading, or you are simply making it up as you go along. > > I suppose there is fun in being a lying whiner, but I have never figured out what it is. \*\* Are you saying that the following is not indicative to you of loserhood? > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by John C. \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > Reason #1 I wouldn’t call immoral; but it is still against the rules, and will get a person banned. > > > > Reason #2 I would call pathetic. > > > > Reason #3 I would call cowardly _and_ pathetic.\*\* > > Well, fine, then you are not a loser, but cowardly _and_ pathetic. (Those asterisks are a bit pre-teen, aren’t they John? But soo cute of you to use!) > > OK, so now you are the lying whiner, so you must be able to tell us all what is so much fun. Or aren’t you having fun any more? (And what’s with tomanddebb? The asshole so nice they named it twice?) \*\* DNFTT. ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2001, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-defining-a-moral-dilemma/80222/56 "2001-09-10T01:52:48Z")
Actually, there have been quite a few times where I wished that second user names were allowed. Of course, I didn’t make a second one bcause they aren’t. The reason is pretty simple. I wouldn’t be afraid of airing an unpopular opinion or anything like that, but I do have some real-life friends who post on here sometimes. Now, I’m content with the anonymity of the board, but there are some topics that I just don’t feel comfortable having my real friends know about. But whatever. I understand why the rule is in place and that the Mods can’t just allow the responsible ones to have a second user name. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2001, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-defining-a-moral-dilemma/80222/58 "2001-09-10T11:21:34Z")
You have **one** post and you’re already wishing you could have another? Brother please… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-defining-a-moral-dilemma/80222.md?page=2)