# Sock-hunting is stupid **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 3, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sock-hunting-is-stupid/436134 "2008-02-03T21:00:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sock-hunting-is-stupid/436134/141 "2008-02-06T08:28:10Z")
Oh **Hostile Fetus** , they really could have used you during that first season of _Friends_. But I guess you were suckling at your momma’s teat at that point. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sock-hunting-is-stupid/436134/142 "2008-02-06T08:39:58Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] when an entire message board sees fit to accuse me of having that grudge [/QUOTE] I hadn’t, but based on this post, I’m considering starting. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sock-hunting-is-stupid/436134/143 "2008-02-06T08:49:37Z")
Uh oh. If **Hostile** accuses **Bryan** of not understanding hyperbole my brain aneurysms are going to go nuclear! ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sock-hunting-is-stupid/436134/144 "2008-02-06T09:06:11Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] OTOH, it makes your website as boring as it is mean-spirited. Decisions, decisions. [/QUOTE] To steal a page out of their book, why can’t it be both? The direction of this thread is going all sorts of crazy ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sock-hunting-is-stupid/436134/145 "2008-02-06T11:46:17Z")
[QUOTE=CarnalK] Tuba […] didn’t betray any confidences whatsoever. [/QUOTE] The admins were made aware of a complaint. Surely that complaint was in confidence. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sock-hunting-is-stupid/436134/146 "2008-02-06T14:58:23Z")
[QUOTE=hawthorne] The admins were made aware of a complaint. Surely that complaint was in confidence. [/QUOTE] The specific nature of the complaint was never, to my knowledge, revealed. So, as far as that goes, the confidence was kept. Not to defend **Tuba** ’s actions on that front, but let’s not accuse her of things she didn’t do. ---
**Author:** ![istara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e79b87/32.png) [@istara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/istara)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2008, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sock-hunting-is-stupid/436134/147 "2008-02-07T11:47:03Z")
[QUOTE=samclem] No, we don’t. We, mods and administrators, don’t know your real name anymore than we know if you’re an extremely clever dog. I only know what your email address is. [/QUOTE] Fair enough - I can accept that mods and admins generally may not have access to that. But someone at Chicago Reader must, because my credit card payment went through in my real name. That always makes me nervous. It’s not that I specifically distrust admins, but I am all too aware that they are just regular other people. And regular other people can go just as weird/freaky/stalky as a non-admin/mod regular other people. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sock-hunting-is-stupid/436134.md?page=7)