:Socks are irrelevant, the issue is infested with somethig far worse - game playing and wiki-experienced meat puppets. The labels are quite apt - in real life, the worse thing you get from socks is a smell, and they are easy to deal with - a bit of sniffing out the culprit and you're done. When there is rotten meat in the equation however, evne the smell of it gives you a sour taste in the mouth and a sick feeling in the stomach, and rather than wanting to seek it out for cleaning, you get a complete aversion to going anywhere near the place where the meat might be, lest you get galloping gut rot.