# About This Message Board **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/about-this-message-board/8.md?page=195 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 196 --- ## [Zombie thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-thread/583111)
**Author:** [@copperwindow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/copperwindow)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [September 13, 2011, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-thread/583111 "2011-09-13T23:21:29Z")
What is a zombie thread?" --- ## [How do ZOMBIE threads happen?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-zombie-threads-happen/573935)
**Author:** [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Replies:** 61\ **Last updated:** [September 13, 2011, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-zombie-threads-happen/573935 "2011-09-13T23:20:38Z")
Just saw another one in general questions today. Some 30 reply thread from 2004 about hoodies and BAM! someone replies without missing a beat only it’s freaking 7 years later?!? So how does this happen? People doing s… --- ## [A zombie threads question...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-zombie-threads-question/256126)
**Author:** [@Atticus\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atticus_Finch)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [September 13, 2011, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-zombie-threads-question/256126 "2011-09-13T22:56:34Z")
People often resurrect zombie threads from many years ago for a variety of reasons. The policy is clear - they get locked, and the resurrector gets told to open a new thread if they’d like. So why don’t we just lock al… --- ## [name calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-calling/595221)
**Author:** [@sannemoore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sannemoore)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [September 13, 2011, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-calling/595221 "2011-09-13T15:18:44Z")
I joined The Straight Dope a few weeks ago. I was excited to post and talk with others. These people have never met me, they do not know me, however I was attacked and called names and why because they did not believe wh… --- ## [Is there a way to just see replies to your own posts?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-just-see-replies-to-your-own-posts/596090)
**Author:** [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [September 12, 2011, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-just-see-replies-to-your-own-posts/596090 "2011-09-12T22:51:23Z")
Is there away to find other people’s responses to your posts? I use the Subscribed Threads link to see if there are any new posts within a thread that I have posted in. However, sometimes I only want to see if anybody … --- ## [Marley, can you reopen Shodan's thread?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-can-you-reopen-shodans-thread/596076)
**Author:** [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [September 12, 2011, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-can-you-reopen-shodans-thread/596076 "2011-09-12T21:49:00Z")
As you closed it, you wrote: I don’t understand how you think one can have a reasonable debate about the term Uncle Tom devoid of the concept of conservatism. I cannot think of one instance today in which the term is h… --- ## [Is Cecil Adams a real person, or a title for a group of people?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cecil-adams-a-real-person-or-a-title-for-a-group-of-people/595621)
**Author:** [@SDMBKL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SDMBKL)\ **Replies:** 94\ **Last updated:** [September 12, 2011, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cecil-adams-a-real-person-or-a-title-for-a-group-of-people/595621 "2011-09-12T18:44:01Z")
I am not sure whether Cecil Adams is a real person, or merely a title for a group of people. The website does say that Cecil Adams is a man and hints that he worked as a Chicago Reader journalist before he started (presu… --- ## [Is "Uncle Tom" Hate Speech?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-uncle-tom-hate-speech/595973)
**Author:** [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Replies:** 69\ **Last updated:** [September 12, 2011, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-uncle-tom-hate-speech/595973 "2011-09-12T15:17:25Z")
I know there is a rule against hate speech in GD. And this rule extends to those who are not members of the SDMB - one cannot refer to Obama as “that stupid nigger”. Is referring to other black public figures as "Uncle… --- ## [External links mostly don't work for me](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/external-links-mostly-dont-work-for-me/595964)
**Author:** [@GilaB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GilaB)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 12, 2011, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/external-links-mostly-dont-work-for-me/595964 "2011-09-12T14:23:41Z")
I’ve had this problem for a while now, but it seems to be much worse some days than others, and today is a bad day. When I click on any link within the SDMB that leads to outside of it (say, the links to dresses in this… --- ## [TubaDiva, you may have missed this.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-you-may-have-missed-this/595421)
**Author:** [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Replies:** 96\ **Last updated:** [September 11, 2011, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-you-may-have-missed-this/595421 "2011-09-11T14:16:55Z")
Last Friday I reported a post and the only action taken was that the thread was closed. Within the existing ATMB thread I have (Post #10) inquiring of tomndebb, I added this: \[QUOTE=magellan01\] I also reported his post… --- ## [I'm banned! Banned I tell you!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-banned-banned-i-tell-you/595503)
**Author:** [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Replies:** 133\ **Last updated:** [September 11, 2011, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-banned-banned-i-tell-you/595503 "2011-09-11T05:56:49Z")
When I try to access the SD on my Android tablet, it tells me my IP address has been banned. Could I possibly be unbanned? --- ## [You know you're wrong, Dex](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-wrong-dex/593744)
**Author:** [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Replies:** 137\ **Last updated:** [September 7, 2011, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-wrong-dex/593744 "2011-09-07T22:14:19Z")
If you weren’t you wouldn’t have “doube-dared” me to take your ridiculous warning like a man–did you think that was going to shut me up? For those in need of specification, I was a participant–far from the instigator or… --- ## [On the Closing of the "Is There Favoritism in Great Debates" Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-closing-of-the-is-there-favoritism-in-great-debates-thread/594781)
**Author:** [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Replies:** 193\ **Last updated:** [September 7, 2011, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-closing-of-the-is-there-favoritism-in-great-debates-thread/594781 "2011-09-07T19:04:55Z")
This one. Marley23 - good call. I agree completely. That is all. Regards, Shodan --- ## [No Instant Advice of Subscribed Threads](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-instant-advice-of-subscribed-threads/595350)
**Author:** [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 7, 2011, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-instant-advice-of-subscribed-threads/595350 "2011-09-07T01:04:13Z")
I stopped my instant emailing when there were replies to a subscribed thread. I didn’t like that and have gone back and changed all my subscriptions to instant email advice. Doesn’t like me doing that and I still get n… --- ## [How do I do the strike-through thingie?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-do-the-strike-through-thingie/595284)
**Author:** [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [September 6, 2011, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-do-the-strike-through-thingie/595284 "2011-09-06T22:48:16Z")
I searched but came up with nada. You know, where someone posts a word or phrase, strikes it through or crosses it out and adds a different word or phrase. Usually for comic effect. So anyhow, how do I do that? Thanks. … --- ## [Anybody Else Not Getting Update E-mails?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-not-getting-update-e-mails/595314)
**Author:** [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 6, 2011, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-not-getting-update-e-mails/595314 "2011-09-06T19:40:53Z")
For the past two weeks or so, I haven’t been getting e-mails alerting me that a subscribed thread has been posted to. My e-mail address has not changed. I’m sure that I subscribed and sure that I clicked for instant e-ma… --- ## [Weird coding quirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-coding-quirk/589673)
**Author:** [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [September 6, 2011, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-coding-quirk/589673 "2011-09-06T17:35:59Z")
I’ve just now noticed that the tags don’t work on certain symbols, at least for me. Bold will be bold, but if I throw in a symbol like the percentage sign B%ld, everything but the percentage sign is bolded. Forgive me … --- ## [Crybabies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crybabies/595340)
**Author:** [@hvac\_two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hvac_two)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [September 6, 2011, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crybabies/595340 "2011-09-06T12:51:32Z")
Been here a day and so far I have had several crybabies, One a moderator here, make up imaginative accusations regarding my intentions here. I have had it…so do what you want…I am a straight forward kinda person and her… --- ## [How do you use smilies?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-use-smilies/595121)
**Author:** [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [September 6, 2011, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-use-smilies/595121 "2011-09-06T07:21:08Z")
I tried putting a smilie in a post and all I got was http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/images/smilies/smile.gif. --- ## [8/31 SDMB downtime question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-31-sdmb-downtime-question/594663)
**Author:** [@Bri2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bri2k)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [September 5, 2011, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-31-sdmb-downtime-question/594663 "2011-09-05T04:23:58Z")
TubaDiva posted an announcement that the SDMB will be down for maintenance tomorrow 8/31 betweem 1AM & 4 AM. Is this U.S. Central time? I’m in the Eastern time zone and I’m so addicted I often log on here around 4AM whi… --- ## [Marley, Tom, a word...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-tom-a-word/594935)
**Author:** [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [September 4, 2011, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-tom-a-word/594935 "2011-09-04T16:41:12Z")
From this thread tomndebb admonished me in Post 102: \[QUOTE=tomndebb\] \[QUOTE=magellan01\] Nah. How about this: I’ll stick to defending positions I actually hold. \*I trust you’ll find this an invaluable aid in understa… --- ## [Paying Google to have the user reload the page?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paying-google-to-have-the-user-reload-the-page/595069)
**Author:** [@Dan\_Norder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dan_Norder)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 3, 2011, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paying-google-to-have-the-user-reload-the-page/595069 "2011-09-03T22:00:11Z")
In the things that make you go hmmmm department: On the top of the StraightDope.com home page just now there was one of those text Google AdWords banner ads. One on the ads in it was for Giraffe’s boards, one was some P… --- ## [Zhen'ka has been banned](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zhenka-has-been-banned/595103)
**Author:** [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 3, 2011, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zhenka-has-been-banned/595103 "2011-09-03T20:51:47Z")
With five warnings in only 447 posts, Zhen’ka has been banned for a pattern of jerkish behavior in which she comes by and posts several rude, insulting, and/or jerkish comments, then disappears for several months, reappe… --- ## [Twickster, too stupid for MPSIMS?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twickster-too-stupid-for-mpsims/594210)
**Author:** [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [September 3, 2011, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twickster-too-stupid-for-mpsims/594210 "2011-09-03T15:06:25Z")
Will wonders never cease? Though it was pretty stupid. --- ## [What does "MMP' mean?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-mmp-mean/594486)
**Author:** [@Ronald\_C.Semone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ronald_C.Semone)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2011, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-mmp-mean/594486 "2011-09-02T19:27:37Z")
Lately I’ve noticed on SDMBs references to posters’ “MMP”. I have no idea what that means. Urban Dictionary didn’t help. Will someone please bring me up to speed? --- ## [Cross-site scripting](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cross-site-scripting/594989)
**Author:** [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2011, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cross-site-scripting/594989 "2011-09-02T19:19:32Z")
I recently upgraded from an XP computer to a new Windows 7 machine and the latest Norton Anti-Virus and Utilities. I am getting a message when I visit this board that ‘Windows has modified this page to prevent Cross-sit… --- ## [How about automatically locking all race/intelligence threads.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-automatically-locking-all-race-intelligence-threads/594863)
**Author:** [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2011, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-automatically-locking-all-race-intelligence-threads/594863 "2011-09-02T13:15:19Z")
Ok that might seem a bit drastic but the worst threads I’ve ever read on this board all pertain to racial differences in intellectual abilities. These threads bring out the worst posters, many of whom only seem to post i… --- ## [Is Search fubar'd?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-search-fubard/594813)
**Author:** [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2011, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-search-fubard/594813 "2011-09-01T03:45:14Z")
I have searched twice in a row, and both times got the following message: --- ## [Info about subscriptions](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-subscriptions/594766)
**Author:** [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2011, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-subscriptions/594766 "2011-09-01T03:15:56Z")
I love the SDMB so much, I’m thinking about subscribing. Maybe I’m slow, but I can’t seem to find any info about subscribing (in the sense of “what do I get as a subscriber”) besides avoiding ads. So what do I get for … --- ## [Is there favoritism in the 'great debates' board?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-favoritism-in-the-great-debates-board/594759)
**Author:** [@strugglingChristian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/strugglingChristian)\ **Replies:** 68\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2011, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-favoritism-in-the-great-debates-board/594759 "2011-08-31T19:30:47Z")
This questions pertains to posts that are moved. I recently had a post moved to the pit by an administrator because it was not a debate but a contest. The movement was immediate and swift. Yet there remains a thread a… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/about-this-message-board/8.md?page=194) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/about-this-message-board/8.md?page=196)