LinusK just got banned for socking. Shouldn’t the sock accounts also be named in the banning announcement?
That just encourages the socks to come back.
Why, I oughta sock you one…
No, they got lost in the dryer.
Darn those socks!
Any more of these puns and you get the hose.
Only notaqble usernames get a banning announcement. Socks are usually caught pretty quickly. Their other account will only have a few posts, and can be disappeared without people wondering what happened to that guy. They are not notable, and deserve no announcement.
What if their intended purpose was to be a stalking horse?
Fun fact about stocking horses: they don’t run.
Yeah, but I wanna know their names before I bet.
Really, part of the fun of an MB is betting on who is a sock and when he’ll be banned. Removing the details removes the fun from everybody else.
You can always ask. I usually do, because I like to know who was a sock.
Usually, it’s some account I’ve never heard of, since it’s brand new. And that was the case this time. Pretty sure it was suicide by mod.
I want your sox! SFW
What is the reasoning for this? If you want to know, PM a mod. In this particular case, as in many others, the sock posts have been disappeared, so you wouldn’t be able to see them anyway.
Socks are always odd. It’s an extension of Murphy’s Law.
As Colibri has said, just PM a mod. A few have asked me, in PM…and I’ve told them.
I don’t see the point in saying who the socks were in the banning post, though, because sometimes socks are not going to be anyone you’ve ever seen post before.
Now if there was a long time member socking and their sock was also a long time member and everyone knew of BOTH “members” well, then there would be cause to say “Yeah, this guy was a sock of this one…that’s why they’re both banned”, but in this case, the sock was made on the very day he was banned. You’re not going to know or recognize the name, I think it made just one post before it was found out and even that was quickly disappeared. There’s just really no reason to say anything other than “Well known name banned for socking”. Anything beyond that a poster can just ask privately.
That’s ok, we’ll be re-stocking them.
Ouch.
Darn you! Don’t you people have anything better to do?
clearly, we don’t 
Post 5 already made that one. [/knitpick]