# Three people using "CalMeacham" is the same as one person having multiple socks. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 25, 2008, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-people-using-calmeacham-is-the-same-as-one-person-having-multiple-socks/439134 "2008-02-25T23:55:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-people-using-calmeacham-is-the-same-as-one-person-having-multiple-socks/439134/1 "2008-02-25T23:55:23Z")
I have nothing against the poster CalMeacham, but [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=457318) reveals that there are apparently at least three different people using his screen name here - “Pepper Mill” and “Millical,” as well as, presumably, “Cal Meacham.” It’s incredibly unfair that this is accepted on a board where socks are so mercilessly hunted and banned without any consideration for their circumstances. An extra, and possibly illegal anecdote is that one of these users, “MilliCal,” is too young to be a member of this board but is circumventing the rule by sharing this screen name. As seen with a recent sock banning, stuff like this simply isn’t allowed here. **CalMeacham** being an aggregate screen name that multiple people freely use is no different than another poster having two or three different sock accounts that they freely switch between. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-people-using-calmeacham-is-the-same-as-one-person-having-multiple-socks/439134/2 "2008-02-25T23:57:45Z")
If I had to guess, I would say there’s a gray line here. \*\*Cal \*\*is clearly stating his daughter is typing under his username. If it bothers you, report it. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-people-using-calmeacham-is-the-same-as-one-person-having-multiple-socks/439134/3 "2008-02-25T23:59:14Z")
Well, you’ve got a point. How hard is it for the family to create a new user? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-people-using-calmeacham-is-the-same-as-one-person-having-multiple-socks/439134/4 "2008-02-26T00:03:02Z")
He’s relaying a question his daughter had. Big fuckin’ deal. And where do you get the idea that **Pepper Mill** is also using his account? ---
**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 26, 2008, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-people-using-calmeacham-is-the-same-as-one-person-having-multiple-socks/439134/5 "2008-02-26T00:04:16Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] And where do you get the idea that **Pepper Mill** is also using his account? [/QUOTE] He’s an idiot. Any more stupid questions? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-people-using-calmeacham-is-the-same-as-one-person-having-multiple-socks/439134/6 "2008-02-26T00:04:52Z")
**TLDRETC** , you should become a mod. You got mad sock spotting skills. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-people-using-calmeacham-is-the-same-as-one-person-having-multiple-socks/439134/7 "2008-02-26T00:09:19Z")
I’m not sure what the problem is. Pepper Mill is a registered username (she last posted under her own name in 2001), and Millical is their child and is too young to join in her own right. **Ivylass** has used Ivylad, Ivyboy etc in the past. Other posters have similar references. I’ve seen a fair few posts where it’s been the spouse of the Doper that’s posting, but always, as in this case, clearly flagged. And I think that’s the difference: it’s clearly marked. And it’s not common. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-people-using-calmeacham-is-the-same-as-one-person-having-multiple-socks/439134/8 "2008-02-26T00:11:52Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] He’s relaying a question his daughter had. Big fuckin’ deal. And where do you get the idea that **Pepper Mill** is also using his account? [/QUOTE] Hey, I posted a question Miller asked in my post as well. He’s sharing my account! Miller, you owe me $7.50! ---
**Author:** ![Iggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Iggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggins)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-people-using-calmeacham-is-the-same-as-one-person-having-multiple-socks/439134/9 "2008-02-26T00:16:34Z")
Is **CalMeacham** trying to argue both sides of an issue with himself? Has anyone else posted under his name, yet represented themselves as the “real” poster? No? Then who cares? ---
**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 26, 2008, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-people-using-calmeacham-is-the-same-as-one-person-having-multiple-socks/439134/10 "2008-02-26T00:19:51Z")
[QUOTE=TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW] …stuff like this simply isn’t allowed here. [/QUOTE] Keep that in mind next time you feel a troll coming on, k? ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-people-using-calmeacham-is-the-same-as-one-person-having-multiple-socks/439134/11 "2008-02-26T00:21:49Z")
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.] He’s an idiot. Any more stupid questions? 😛 [/QUOTE] Ooh! Oh! _[sticks hand in the air]_ ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-people-using-calmeacham-is-the-same-as-one-person-having-multiple-socks/439134/12 "2008-02-26T00:22:54Z")
Why, it would almost be like someone who has a single screen name having two or three different personalities that they freely switch between! ---
**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 26, 2008, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-people-using-calmeacham-is-the-same-as-one-person-having-multiple-socks/439134/13 "2008-02-26T00:24:55Z")
[QUOTE=iamthewalrus(:3=] Ooh! Oh! _[sticks hand in the air]_ [/QUOTE] You with the funny mustache. Yes? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-people-using-calmeacham-is-the-same-as-one-person-having-multiple-socks/439134/14 "2008-02-26T00:27:49Z")
[QUOTE=Morbo] Why, it would almost be like someone who has a single screen name having two or three different personalities that they freely switch between! [/QUOTE] He has another? Then why is he using this one? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-people-using-calmeacham-is-the-same-as-one-person-having-multiple-socks/439134/15 "2008-02-26T00:28:55Z")
[QUOTE=TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW] I have nothing against the poster CalMeacham, but [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=457318) reveals that there are apparently at least three different people using his screen name here - “Pepper Mill” and “Millical,” as well as, presumably, “Cal Meacham.” It’s incredibly unfair that this is accepted on a board where socks are so mercilessly hunted and banned without any consideration for their circumstances. An extra, and possibly illegal anecdote is that one of these users, “MilliCal,” is too young to be a member of this board but is circumventing the rule by sharing this screen name. As seen with a recent sock banning, stuff like this simply isn’t allowed here. **CalMeacham** being an aggregate screen name that multiple people freely use is no different than another poster having two or three different sock accounts that they freely switch between. [/QUOTE] It must just be **exhausting** being you. ---
**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 26, 2008, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-people-using-calmeacham-is-the-same-as-one-person-having-multiple-socks/439134/16 "2008-02-26T00:32:31Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] He has another? Then why is he using this one? 😕 [/QUOTE] This is his very best one. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-people-using-calmeacham-is-the-same-as-one-person-having-multiple-socks/439134/17 "2008-02-26T00:41:56Z")
Somebody should report this to **tomndebb**. ---
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-people-using-calmeacham-is-the-same-as-one-person-having-multiple-socks/439134/18 "2008-02-26T00:41:59Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] He’s relaying a question his daughter had. Big fuckin’ deal. And where do you get the idea that **Pepper Mill** is also using his account? [/QUOTE] Because I searched “Pepper Mill” and all I saw were references in his posts to someone with that name also using the Meacham name. “Pepper mill, here…” and so on. If this is how it’s going to be, then I’m going to go schizophrenic and have TLDR be one person who posts long shit, IDK be another who’s an idiot and never knows the answer, JKLOL to only post in MPSIMS, and FTW will be the real me. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-people-using-calmeacham-is-the-same-as-one-person-having-multiple-socks/439134/19 "2008-02-26T00:44:50Z")
So what happens when **Airman** or **MsRobyn** accidentally post under each other’s user name because one or the other forgot to log out? Is that sock puppetry too? It’s the intent that we have to look at here. There is no attempt to deceive. Again, IANAM, so not my call. ---
**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:** [February 26, 2008, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-people-using-calmeacham-is-the-same-as-one-person-having-multiple-socks/439134/20 "2008-02-26T00:45:38Z")
So report the fucking post. What’s your problem? Why in the world would you start a thread about this if not just to be an asshole? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-people-using-calmeacham-is-the-same-as-one-person-having-multiple-socks/439134.md?page=2)