# About This Message Board **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/about-this-message-board/8.md?page=532 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 533 --- ## [Ceci n'est pas un sujet](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ceci-nest-pas-un-sujet/34139)
**Author:** [@Kyberneticist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyberneticist)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2000, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ceci-nest-pas-un-sujet/34139 "2000-09-22T14:51:16Z")
:smiley: big grin :confused: confused :cool: cool :eek: eek! :o embarrasment :frowning: frown ;j happy orthodox jewish man :mad: mad :rolleyes: roll eyes (sarcastic) :slight\_smile: smile :stuck\_out\_tongue: stic… --- ## [Trolls, Sockpuppets and other lowlifes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-sockpuppets-and-other-lowlifes/33550)
**Author:** [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2000, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-sockpuppets-and-other-lowlifes/33550 "2000-09-22T12:19:06Z")
I have noticed the latest wave of undesirables and the efforts of the mods and admins to get rid of them. I find them as annoying as anybody else but try not to post to those threads so as not to encourage them. I figure… --- ## [testingagain](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testingagain/33943)
**Author:** [@justwannano](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justwannano)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2000, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testingagain/33943 "2000-09-22T03:17:47Z")
{url=“http://Des Moines Register.com”}here}/url} --- ## [Another (yawn) quote test - that's all](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-yawn-quote-test-thats-all/34037)
**Author:** [@ren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ren)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2000, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-yawn-quote-test-thats-all/34037 "2000-09-21T22:58:17Z")
lorum ipsum dolor sit amet. --- ## [Testing extent of allowed board formatting](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-extent-of-allowed-board-formatting/33798)
**Author:** [@Kyberneticist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyberneticist)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2000, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-extent-of-allowed-board-formatting/33798 "2000-09-21T21:20:16Z")
foo bar --- ## [Ask the Gay Guy III?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-gay-guy-iii/33070)
**Author:** [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2000, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-gay-guy-iii/33070 "2000-09-21T17:45:38Z")
Is the “Ask the Gay Guy II” thread getting too long? I’d be happy to coordinate III if the mods so desire. Esprix --- ## [newbie question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newbie-question/33836)
**Author:** [@Sapphire\_Bullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapphire_Bullet)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2000, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newbie-question/33836 "2000-09-21T13:31:11Z")
Hi- I gotta get out of this name :slight\_smile: Is that possible? I know the FAQ says our name is ours for life, but what if we don’t want it anymore?! Please help. --- ## [Testing](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing/33549)
**Author:** [@Grimhacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grimhacker)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2000, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing/33549 "2000-09-21T03:57:30Z")
just a test --- ## [test of sig](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-of-sig/33366)
**Author:** [@hypergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hypergirl)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2000, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-of-sig/33366 "2000-09-21T02:22:08Z")
Just want to see if this is working. --- ## [SPAM in your SDMB Inbox](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-in-your-sdmb-inbox/33878)
**Author:** [@sdimbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sdimbert)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2000, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-in-your-sdmb-inbox/33878 "2000-09-20T21:47:05Z")
This isn’t really the right place to post this, but I decided to put it here because of the number of complaints in recent days regarding Spam in peoples’ SDMB mail addresses. Head over to http://www.SpamCop.net. You ca… --- ## [Some points on IP's that people seem to be afraid of for nothing.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-points-on-ips-that-people-seem-to-be-afraid-of-for-nothing/33640)
**Author:** [@saam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saam)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2000, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-points-on-ips-that-people-seem-to-be-afraid-of-for-nothing/33640 "2000-09-20T21:21:33Z")
Lots of reasons they are unreliable. A search shows some were already mentioned on another thread on this forum and on GQ, but I’ll repeat a couple to make the question. IP numbers are easily forged, but nobody would re… --- ## [Not too fast there, turbo.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-too-fast-there-turbo/33227)
**Author:** [@Diesel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diesel)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [September 19, 2000, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-too-fast-there-turbo/33227 "2000-09-19T19:30:48Z")
Is it just me, or is the board really fucking slow today? --- ## [Disappearing Pit Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappearing-pit-thread/33289)
**Author:** [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [September 18, 2000, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappearing-pit-thread/33289 "2000-09-18T16:25:47Z")
Am I nucking futs or did FarTrekers “PTA Rant” Pit Thread just completely disappear? I can’t find it anywhere else. I only called him a misanthrope. And it WAS the Pit :smiley: So what’s the story? --- ## [List o' members?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-o-members/33332)
**Author:** [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2000, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-o-members/33332 "2000-09-17T23:19:03Z")
blink Hey! New feature! I’ll admit looking at who’s online is kinda amusing, though. I know vB has a PM feature…any chance of us getting that here? --- ## [Attn Newcomers - Abbreviations List](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-newcomers-abbreviations-list/27395)
**Author:** [@2sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2sense)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2000, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-newcomers-abbreviations-list/27395 "2000-09-17T22:41:19Z")
Hi there new person. Welcome aBoard! This is the wonderful land of the Straight Dope Message Board ( SDMB ) Here are some of the abbreviations that we use here. Just for fun I organized them according to the forum where… --- ## [states](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/states/33421)
**Author:** [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2000, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/states/33421 "2000-09-17T21:52:42Z")
Can we get a list of where all the dopers are from? --- ## [Pit and views](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pit-and-views/33495)
**Author:** [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2000, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pit-and-views/33495 "2000-09-17T17:04:18Z")
Am I missing something in the pit? That Easy Tokyo character posted 15 minutes ago, at 9:45 A.M. the 17th, and now, at 10:09, has over 411 views? That seems a bit impossible to me. --- ## [What exactly is a troll?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-a-troll/33333)
**Author:** [@jmullaney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jmullaney)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2000, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-a-troll/33333 "2000-09-17T02:08:16Z")
I’ve been on the internet for 12 years, and I really thought I knew what a troll was, and I was always pretty sure I wasn’t one. But lately, anything I post around here is accused of being a troll. Am I missing somethin… --- ## [30 Years a Member and No Screen Name?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-years-a-member-and-no-screen-name/33014)
**Author:** [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2000, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-years-a-member-and-no-screen-name/33014 "2000-09-17T00:13:50Z")
In the GQ thread about the origins of the Christian Trinity http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=38013 – please note the post at 9:51 AM on 9/11/2000, just before Dex’s post. According to the inf… --- ## [The old-fashioned "long" s](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-old-fashioned-long-s/32859)
**Author:** [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 16, 2000, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-old-fashioned-long-s/32859 "2000-09-16T21:36:51Z")
Is there any way to produce this symbol (discussed by Cecil in the original Straight Dope book) on a computer? My sister, who took high-school biology in 1968, had a textbook which printed a 17th-Century paper on the ma… --- ## [banned posters](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-posters/33380)
**Author:** [@cheezit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cheezit)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 16, 2000, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-posters/33380 "2000-09-16T03:57:58Z")
Whenever I see that a poster was banned, I do a search and try to find the post or posts that got that person banned. It is just something that I do to try and keep myself on the straight and narrow, so to speak. Howeve… --- ## [Total posts v. Post ID](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/total-posts-v-post-id/33318)
**Author:** [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2000, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/total-posts-v-post-id/33318 "2000-09-15T23:20:20Z")
OK, here’s the post with Post ID 737,000, posted about a half hour ago: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=737000#post737000 Yet the SDMB main page, when I logged in about 15 minutes ago, said: … --- ## [Why the heck are all these BANNED people showing up?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-heck-are-all-these-banned-people-showing-up/32994)
**Author:** [@McKenna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/McKenna)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2000, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-heck-are-all-these-banned-people-showing-up/32994 "2000-09-15T22:39:03Z")
Just curious, after reading all those threads from that annoying idiot English guy over at the Pit (as opposed to all the annoying threads started by regulars ;).) I mean, I understand why you can get BANNED, and will d… --- ## [Wrong Forum, But I Must Post](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrong-forum-but-i-must-post/33355)
**Author:** [@sdimbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sdimbert)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2000, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrong-forum-but-i-must-post/33355 "2000-09-15T21:53:14Z")
I know this doesn’t belong here, but I had to put it in this forum. From AIM: Aint’ she the bestest? :slight\_smile: --- ## [Weird Earl's](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-earls/1545)
**Author:** [@Ed\_Zotti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ed_Zotti)\ **Replies:** 200\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2000, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-earls/1545 "2000-09-15T20:57:06Z")
The other new feature we just started on the main screen is Weird Earl’s (weird URL’s, get it?) - links to nutty websites we’ve found. Anything to help the Teeming Millions kill a little more time at the office. Post you… --- ## [Testing a link - nothing to see here](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-a-link-nothing-to-see-here/33077)
**Author:** [@Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bottle_of_Smoke)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2000, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-a-link-nothing-to-see-here/33077 "2000-09-15T17:35:08Z")
Blah, Blah, Blah. And then blah. --- ## [hello?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello/33243)
**Author:** [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2000, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello/33243 "2000-09-15T16:51:03Z")
I checked my post count and it says 737. No way! It was 757 this mornign,. Help. --- ## [Test post](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-post/33304)
**Author:** [@Mojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mojo)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2000, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-post/33304 "2000-09-15T16:12:01Z")
For some reason, this got mucked up when I posted in IMHO. Testing here. As for all-time favorites, Bad Bob is up there with Big Daddy. with replaced brackets (if someone can tell me what I’m doing wrong): As for all-… --- ## [A question about editing posts (to the administration)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-about-editing-posts-to-the-administration/33105)
**Author:** [@Gatsby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatsby)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2000, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-about-editing-posts-to-the-administration/33105 "2000-09-15T12:29:29Z")
I understand that the editing feature has been disabled at the SDMB because it was being abused by people who would go back and edit incriminating posts after others had replied, rendering confusion and mayhem upon the t… --- ## [Given the influx of trolls, this one'll be invaluable](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/given-the-influx-of-trolls-this-onell-be-invaluable/33271)
**Author:** [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2000, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/given-the-influx-of-trolls-this-onell-be-invaluable/33271 "2000-09-15T04:18:17Z")
Flame Warriors! Funniest site I’ve seen in months! And, with the current round of trolls, it’s useful too. Fenris [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/about-this-message-board/8.md?page=531) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/about-this-message-board/8.md?page=533)