User ban, missing comments

As per my previous warning, I banned a user from commenting today because he was using multiple identities. The extra identities are generally known as “sock puppets” in internet parlance. (I guess I actually banned nine users, since that’s how many different identities he was using to post.) He had already been using eight different identities at the time I issued the general warning to stop. At one point, he had used three different identities in the same thread.

Not only did he not heed the warning, but he created another new identity!

You will notice that some previous threads will seem confusing with all of his comments expunged, since some of your responses will disappear when the “parent” comment disappears. I figure it doesn’t matter since people almost never go back to review old threads anyway.

To repeat: I don’t care what kind of opinions you post, as long as they are civil, but stand in there and defend them as yourself rather than hiding behind sock puppets.

14 thoughts on “User ban, missing comments

  1. I guess that leaves Mature Mom out, too. So long, Socky. I’ll always picture you off somewhere clinging to some guy’s calf.

        1. Well I said it was arcane. The British band Manfred Mann did this catchy little thing called “5 4 3 2 1” which was used as the weekly lead-in to the British TV show “Ready Steady Go” (kind of the Brit equivalent of Shindig). It’s on You Tube, studio and live. Good band worth checking out. Did a lot more than Doo Wah Diddy.
          Lyrics went:
          Five, four, three, two, one
          (several repeats)

          Always onward, rode the six hundred
          (Five, four, three, two, one)
          Down the valley on their horses they thundered
          (Five, four, three, two, one)
          Ah, but it wasn’t them that really blundered
          Uh-uh, it was the Manfreds

          Five, four, three, two, one
          Five, four, three, two, one

          The soldiers waited at the gate for weeks
          In a wooden horse into the city they sneaked
          (Five, four, three, two, one)
          Pulled out and then was it the Greeks?
          Uh-uh, it was the Manfreds
          etc.
          Talking about Ready Steady Go, it’s one of two things to hate Dave Clark for. One was his drumming, the other is that he owns the rights to RSG and except for putting out some VHS tapes years ago hasn’t done squat in releasing them on video.

          1. Thanks, Bill Deecee. I actually made the effort to Google Dave Clark, because I was getting him mixed up with Dick Clark. What is the OTHER reason to hate Dave Clark? Is it the fact that he looks like a very pale Klingon now?

          2. Reply to Roger = the two things are
            his thumpy drumming & the fact that he hasn’t been doing anything with the Ready Steady Go stuff on DVD. The VHS tapes he did put out back in the 80s had some amazing stuff, particularly the “Tamla” (what the Brits call Motown) and the Stones stuff when they didn’t have to lip-synch anymore. The 66 stuff might be the last stuff the Stones did truly live on camera when Brian jones was still functional. Of course the Shindig rights owners over here haven’t done much either. All they have is stuff like the Stones doing four songs and introducing Satisfaction in the fadeout. I’d kill to get hold of that.
            Btw, Dave Clark did have a rep as being a pompous prick.

  2. I guess he was a commenting on Trump’s threads? I don’t know what he said as I missed it but I’m curious to know what he was doing.

    1. I didn’t really study all of his posts and their themes, but I think the most common theme was pro-Trump. I’m sure you all can figure out who it is (who THEY are) if you really care to.

  3. I recall seeing something like this from a formerly well-respected Doctor who’d been outed as a child molester on the old Dateline segment “To Catch a Predator.” I followed up to see what happened to him, and it turns out he regularly appears all over the web using diff sock puppets to say what a wonderful, valuable, misunderstood guy he is. He was exposed, but being a total idiot, he still continues to do that. I’ve seen long convos that he clearly was having with *himself* using diff ID’s! Saying things, in the 3rd person, like how his cancer research should be far more important to his legacy than that little ‘mistake’ of fucking little girls. And he still gets caught with that bullshit almost every time. But somebody doing that on a site of celeb titties and random comments? Doesn’t make any sense to me. Guy needs to get a life.

  4. In case you are slow on the uptake, Socrates Puppet is me. I am illustrating what you should NOT do.

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