Jetrell Fo said:
SilverWook said:
Alas, mods are not omniscient. If anyone has proof Mr. Olie the 2nd is a sock, kindly provide it to the mods. Anybody maintaining a sock account at this point is taking a calculated risk. Is it really worth it?
AFAIK, nobody was given special permission for anything, certainly not from me. Joke socks were likely tolerated so long as they were obvious, and didn't stink up serious threads. It takes just one or two people to piss in the pool and ruin it for everyone.
In this forum, I don't believe in coincidence. Ric Olie 2 didn't just materialize out of nowhere from some newbie that just happened to choose that name blindly when joining. That name was chosen for a reason, but by whom, I do not know.
It is my guess that these socks probably weren't meant to exist outside the "off topic" forum. That is why some of us that don't normally have a reason to peruse this section had no real idea who they were ..... making it easier for them to slink around the main forum mostly undetected. With some of their alter-egos being regulars in the main forum it was only a matter of time before things got out of hand.
Somehow I missed the last dozen twenty comments before I posted (hence the post being disjointed from the rest of the conversation) so I didn't realize my legitimacy was being questioned here. How dare you! ;)
Frink is right about me. I enjoyed TRM which is what brought me to this site and for lack of a better name, I chose the star of the show: Ric Olie. The name Ric Olie was already taken (unbeknownst to me, by a sock), so I used RicOlie_2 (I think I used an underscore and didn't use a space intentionally, as I didn't want to end up being confused with the other Ric). I've been around since July (I think, maybe it was June). So I that's why I chose the name. I fooled around a bit recently, hinting that I could be a sock intentionally, just to have fun, but I tried not to be convincing enough that I would make people angry at me or end up banned.
I present this serious thread as evidence that I am not a sock:
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Ask-the-member-of-the-Latin-Rite-of-the-Roman-Catholic-Church-AKA-Interrogate-the-Catholic/topic/16201/
If I were a sock puppet, then the puppeteer behind me is spending way too much time on me.