# Omnibus Trolls R Us Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 23, 2016, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489 "2016-05-23T21:38:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 212
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2017, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/4224 "2017-11-05T04:22:11Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > Very well, where do I begin? > > - My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium…\* We didn’t click! Stop, you can’t do that. We didn’t click! You’re not a doctor, you’re just… evil. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2017, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/4225 "2017-11-05T13:54:34Z")
Streaming site spammer over in GQ. Sure to be banned momentarily, but I felt the username should be preserved: sin.good.father. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2017, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/4226 "2017-11-05T16:25:23Z")
How will we miss you TerrOkra, when [you won’t](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20583268&postcount=44) [go away](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20583290&postcount=5)? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2017, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/4227 "2017-11-05T19:17:25Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > How will we miss you TerrOkra, when [you won’t](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20583268&postcount=44) [go away](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20583290&postcount=5)? Thanks. Not **Terr/Okrahoma** , but a sock nontheless. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2017, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/4228 "2017-11-05T19:18:19Z")
Left or right? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2017, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/4229 "2017-11-05T19:19:39Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Left or right? Very far right. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2017, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/4230 "2017-11-05T19:46:28Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Streaming site spammer over in GQ. Sure to be banned momentarily, but I felt the username should be preserved: sin.good.father. That one kept the mods busy. I reported it for two threads within a few minutes of each other in either IMHO or MPSIMS yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2017, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/4231 "2017-11-05T22:33:39Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > How will we miss you TerrOkra, when [you won’t](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20583268&postcount=44) [go away](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20583290&postcount=5)? Good catch, even if it wasn’t him!! I read those posts and it never occurred to me to think “sock”. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2017, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/4232 "2017-11-06T14:06:41Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Good catch, even if it wasn’t him!! I read those posts and it never occurred to me to think “sock”. TBH, I was thinking _iterative troll_ rather than _recursive sock_. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2017, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/4233 "2017-11-06T14:51:11Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Thanks. Not Terr/Okrahoma, but a sock nontheless. Well, it probably wasn’t Urbanredneck or C’hump, either. Hope really is the shortest road to disappointment. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2017, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/4234 "2017-11-06T15:47:54Z")
Do we use “sock” to refer to an alter-ego of a current poster only, or does it include alter-egos of now-banned posters? Here I was hoping that we’d get a twofer out of TPTB banning **WeeHawker** and whoever else he is. Be a shame if that was really whoever else he _was_. Disappointment indeed, **QS**. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2017, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/4235 "2017-11-06T16:16:15Z")
I’ve been using sock to include banned posters as well, FWIW. A troll could have multiple identities, such as whatsit from New Jersey, but is always the same troll. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2017, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/4236 "2017-11-06T16:21:49Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Do we use “sock” to refer to an alter-ego of a current poster only, or does it include alter-egos of now-banned posters? As we use it here, “sock” refers to any multiple usernames of the same individual, whether the previous name has been banned or whether the names are in simultaneous use. > [@](#): > > Here I was hoping that we’d get a twofer out of TPTB banning **WeeHawker** and whoever else he is. Be a shame if that was really whoever else he _was_. Disappointment indeed, **QS**. It was a two-fer. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2017, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/4237 "2017-11-06T16:48:34Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > As we use it here, “sock” refers to any multiple usernames of the same individual, whether the previous name has been banned or whether the names are in simultaneous use. > > It was a two-fer. While I know you don’t want to publicize, saying this just stokes the curiosity of many. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2017, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/4238 "2017-11-06T16:52:52Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > While I know you don’t want to publicize, saying this just stokes the curiosity of many. If you are curious, you can always PM or email a mod. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2017, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/4239 "2017-11-06T16:57:20Z")
A couple of days ago for a few seconds I thought that\* I \*might be a sock. I noticed a poster named DarrenG and I wondered if I had signed up to make a post here years ago and then forgot about it. Turned out to be a one-and-done poster who wasn’t me, though. That ever happen, somebody notice that they had two accounts without realizing it? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2017, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/4240 "2017-11-06T17:07:37Z")
Nope. Regards, Shodan ---
**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:** [November 6, 2017, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/4241 "2017-11-06T17:32:41Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > A couple of days ago for a few seconds I thought that\* I \*might be a sock. I noticed a poster named DarrenG and I wondered if I had signed up to make a post here years ago and then forgot about it. Turned out to be a one-and-done poster who wasn’t me, though. > > That ever happen, somebody notice that they had two accounts without realizing it? OK, I’ll out myself.\* I was looking for an old post of mine a couple of years ago, and was chagrined to realize I’d made it under an account (Trout24) I’d created in 2007. I made a grand total of 2 posts on that account, then drifted away for a year. In the meantime, I’d changed email addresses and, being a newbie, thought nothing of just creating a new account when I returned (shockingly, I hadn’t read the whole registration agreement). I completely forgot about it until I found my post under a different user name. I PM’d **engineer\_comp\_geek** about it as soon as I realized. He said he’d merge the accounts eventually as soon as things slowed down. It hasn’t been a priority for him, and it isn’t for me either. Although I could be celebrating my 10-year anniversary if I go by that join date. \*_I notified the mods at the time, so I’m not really outing myself here._ ETA: the other reason I haven’t pressed for an account merge is I’m worried I’ll lose my nice round user number. I have my priorities. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2017, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/4242 "2017-11-06T18:02:00Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Nope. > > Regards, > Shodan 😃 ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2017, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/4243 "2017-11-06T18:13:48Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Nope. > > Regards, > Shodan > [@kayT](#): > > 😃 I’ll let **running coach** report that one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=211) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=213)