# What happened to the Liberal pit thread?

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**Created:** [May 5, 2009, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-liberal-pit-thread/495444 "2009-05-05T18:18:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-liberal-pit-thread/495444/21 "2009-05-06T12:57:46Z")

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> [@madmonk28](#):
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> Can we know who was the banned sock wearer?

Please PM or email me or another staff member.

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**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-liberal-pit-thread/495444/22 "2009-05-06T14:06:28Z")

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> [@Polycarp](#):
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> It’s easy to remove a sock’s posts. But if a scok starts a thread, it is impossible to delete the initial post to a thread while leaving the rest in place. (I presume this has to do with how the database ties posts to threads and threads to forums, but it does seem to be inherent in VBulletin and unchangeable.

It can be done, as I remember from my days modding another vbulletin forum. You can split a thread, hiving as many posts as you want into a new thread. In this case you’d simply split the thread after the first post, then delete the original thread.

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