# Why was Rumpleforskin banned? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 5, 2006, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-rumpleforskin-banned/367475 "2006-08-05T18:08:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-rumpleforskin-banned/367475/21 "2006-08-07T16:51:40Z")
[QUOTE=Revenant Threshold] Generally when nice, polite people get banned they’re socks. Sometimes it’s a troll building up a facade of niceness, but generally they’re socks. [/QUOTE] Sock Puppetry of the Penis in this case, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-rumpleforskin-banned/367475/22 "2006-08-09T00:44:43Z")
[QUOTE=aldiboronti] **Why was Rumpleforskin banned?** The Mods found out his real name? (And he stamped his little foot in frustration and disappeared.) [/QUOTE] Let me guess . . . was it “Richard”? Tripler Just a guess. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-rumpleforskin-banned/367475/23 "2006-08-09T13:44:56Z")
**Arnold** , my link was not broken, this is what techie nerds call a “joke.” Meanwhile: we really do not want discussion about this. Don’t feed the trolls. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-rumpleforskin-banned/367475.md?page=1)