# Would you troll/sock a message board... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 27, 2006, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-troll-sock-a-message-board/381999 "2006-11-27T22:47:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-troll-sock-a-message-board/381999/21 "2006-11-28T11:27:26Z")
No. A message board is a hobby for me. If they kicked me off, I would find another hobby. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-troll-sock-a-message-board/381999/22 "2006-11-28T16:30:38Z")
I would. Not _here_, of course, I’d _never_ do that. I love you guys. Yes, even _you_. But Stormfront, or a Jack Chick fanforum? Sure, if I had the inlination to. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-troll-sock-a-message-board/381999/23 "2006-11-28T16:31:07Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > I couldn’t find any oponent with half a thought, just brain-dead pilers-on. I misread that as “brain-dead _pliers_-on” and thought immediately of [freerepublic.com](http://freerepublic.com). Actually, they’re more like brain-dead pliers-and-blowtorch over there… ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-troll-sock-a-message-board/381999/24 "2006-11-28T19:52:10Z")
Sock accounts make sense in some fora of communication. I would set up a ‘sock’ account on Amazon, just so I could review products that I would rather not endorse with my actual name (like dodgey books and sex toys). But creating socks so you can argue with or support your own position is just lame. I suppose for a person with several different areas of expertese/interest it would be good to have a different username for each area. That way having an unpopular view in one area won’t tarnish the communications within another separate discussion. But there are many disadvantages as well as advantages to such a situation, perhapse if each identity was cross refferenced within the database so that warnings and susspensions would effect all of a user’s identities it might work. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-troll-sock-a-message-board/381999.md?page=1)