About This Message Board
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An important note about AIs and personal information
We recently had an incident where a member of the board (who, like most of our members, prefers to keep their offline identity anonymous) posted some very vague personal information. Another member, out of curiosity, co… |
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47 | 715 | May 12, 2026 |
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Changes to Hijacking Rules in the Politics and Elections Forum
The P&E moderator staff are announcing a change to our rules with respect to hijacking. First, some background: The more stringent current hijacking rules came into existence in 2020, largely authored by Jonathan Chanc… |
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57 | 547 | April 22, 2026 |
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ImgBB on an iPhone, steps to display images for the SDMB
In @Mean_Mr.Mustard’s monthly photography threads (here for Nov 2025 ➜ **Monthly Photo Competition #36– November, 2025 – “A Whole Lot of _____”** [Poll added] ■ ) we recently discovered that images hosted on imgur are no… |
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2 | 421 | November 6, 2025 |
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Muting (Hiding) by Thread, Tag or even Forum (Category), or Alerts for new threads by tag or category. Also doing a linked reply
#Muting a thread is really simple Find the Bell Button in the thread. :bell: Click that and select Muted (the last option). That is it, you’re done. You can also do it from the bottom of any thread. Right above “New &… |
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29 | 1657 | July 19, 2025 |
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Beginner's Guide to Glossary of Terms on Straight Dope Message Boards
There are a number of terms commonly used on the Straight Dope Message Boards, that are basically “in-jokes” or references. There are several threads listing such, I have tried to compile them all into one post here. If… |
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1 | 50273 | September 10, 2023 |
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About the About This Message Board category
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1 | 4529 | July 9, 2020 |
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Regarding Iran War Prediction thread
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6 | 148 | May 11, 2026 |
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Test thread — to test things out. Do not lock!
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1001 | 17535 | May 7, 2026 |
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Question about a mod note
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67 | 692 | May 6, 2026 |
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Quoting only a snippet of a poster's post
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15 | 238 | May 4, 2026 |
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List of moderators?
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4 | 126 | May 3, 2026 |
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Displaying images: any FAQ?
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4 | 93 | May 1, 2026 |
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Why do so many posters have trouble staying on topic?
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175 | 1956 | April 22, 2026 |
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Objection to Warning in the Leave the Birth Rate Alone Thread
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44 | 857 | April 21, 2026 |
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I'm back. What'd I miss?
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17 | 326 | April 20, 2026 |
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Moderation in "So What do we impeach him for"
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4 | 242 | April 12, 2026 |
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I object to my warning in "United States and Israel are bombing Iran"
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52 | 1159 | April 2, 2026 |
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Poster @mundane_super_hero is banned for threats
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1 | 437 | March 29, 2026 |
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I object to this mod note in the "Alan Ritchson beats up neighbor" thread
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6 | 302 | March 27, 2026 |
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Question about OP's control over thread's progress
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25 | 597 | March 23, 2026 |
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Please clarify photo discussion thread moderation
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13 | 258 | March 21, 2026 |
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Why is this considered a thread shit and not just a benign hijack?
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9 | 479 | March 20, 2026 |
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Climate change tag?
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13 | 126 | March 19, 2026 |
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Proposed rule: cut-and-paste from AI must be in quote box
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77 | 734 | March 19, 2026 |
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Question about dollar sign coding
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54 | 297 | March 18, 2026 |
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Catching and then *correcting* yourself on Hijacks/Off-topic posts
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1 | 178 | March 15, 2026 |
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Bad Moderation in the "What happens politically if gas prices go through the roof?" thread
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42 | 863 | March 15, 2026 |
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The_Librarian has been suspended for 7 days
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1 | 338 | March 12, 2026 |
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New tag, maybe temporary added: iran-strikes-2026 {also handy How To's in second post} If I missed a good discourse trick please add it
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6 | 299 | March 7, 2026 |
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One Week suspension for Kedikat for ignoring a thread ban again
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1 | 226 | February 28, 2026 |