# A board I post on has been overrun by morons. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 28, 2006, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-i-post-on-has-been-overrun-by-morons/350215 "2006-03-28T05:48:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mayo\_Speaks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mayo\_Speaks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mayo_Speaks)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-i-post-on-has-been-overrun-by-morons/350215/1 "2006-03-28T05:48:14Z")
I’m not talking about the SDMB. But another (band-related\*) board I frequent has recently seen a trend toward posts like: > [@I made this up as a representative example](#): > > umm yeah i think so lol your so right lol! I miss the days when that board was the home of complete sentences and rational thoughts. I’ve had to essentially abandon it. Now I can begin to see where the SDMB oldtimers are coming from. (lol!! i totally get it omg!, et cetera) - I don’t want to name the band or board because I respect and admire the webmasters and don’t want to say anything against them. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-i-post-on-has-been-overrun-by-morons/350215/2 "2006-03-28T05:56:24Z")
A board I was on for a while got so bad that people’s fully-loaded HTML-with-full-page-image FREAKIN SIGS took up 99% of the space on the page… you’d literally have people posting nothing but “lol me2” and then three screen-scrolls full of their tardtastic sig. It was unreal. It’s sad when the idiots overrun places you like ☹ ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-i-post-on-has-been-overrun-by-morons/350215/3 "2006-03-28T06:05:15Z")
Yep. 😉😃 That is one of the reasons why I just resubscribed to the SDMB. Every 2 months or so, one of my posts causes me to be smacked by a “clue” by four due to a grammatical error. I should spend my time in other sites that ignore such things! I would love it since English is my second language; but, where is the challenge in that? The other 2 sites I like are also related to the SDMB so I’m always in the lion’s den, but I do appreciate getting mauled from time to time so I can get better. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-i-post-on-has-been-overrun-by-morons/350215/4 "2006-03-28T06:22:36Z")
Honestly my hat’s off to anyone who does something like this in a non-native language. I’m in awe of multilingual people, personally. Incidentally I never knew English wasn’t your first language. ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-i-post-on-has-been-overrun-by-morons/350215/5 "2006-03-28T06:39:10Z")
Grammar and spelling are the biggest reasons I actually forked over money for this site. Normally I’m about as cheap as it gets, but for posts I can actually read… It’s wonderful. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-i-post-on-has-been-overrun-by-morons/350215/6 "2006-03-28T07:18:06Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > A board I was on for a while got so bad that people’s fully-loaded HTML-with-full-page-image FREAKIN SIGS took up 99% of the space on the page… you’d literally have people posting nothing but “lol me2” and then three screen-scrolls full of their tardtastic sig. It was unreal. It’s sad when the idiots overrun places you like ☹ In the good old days of Usenet, there was an entire group called alt.fan.warlord for making fun of people who had elaborate, bandwidth-wasting sig files. One of the funniest things I have read in the entire history of the internet was when someone was taken to task for posting a two-line message followed by a twenty-five-line ASCII graphic of Boba Fett. Sadly, the [copy in the Usenet archives](http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.warlord/browse_thread/thread/7648cd5045d6bb53/3fdaf04b0d3eda7b?rnum=1#3fdaf04b0d3eda7b) does not include the graphic, and it kinda loses something without that. ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-i-post-on-has-been-overrun-by-morons/350215/7 "2006-03-28T14:40:28Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > Honestly my hat’s off to anyone who does something like this in a non-native language. I’m in awe of multilingual people, personally. Incidentally I never knew English wasn’t your first language. I currently am active on a message board just for pregnant women due in April (one of Pregnancy Weekly’s “Birth Clubs”), and **Opal** …what you described is EXACTLY how it is over there. Signatures are obscenely HUGE and include about a half dozen pictures, gifs, you name it. Mine is small comparatively–just a countdown to my due date and two (reduced) ultrasound pics of my son. My signature is about half the size of most others. UGH. Worst was the one girl who ALWAYS had a video linked in her signature–anything from U2 to miscellaneous country songs to some gawdawful cheesy crap. It would make a thread take for-EVER to load, and then you had to listen to that musical crap every time you opened the page. And the posts…dear LORD. Let’s just say the intellectual, or at least literary, skills of these very nice girls is a bit, erm, lacking. There’s a reason I came back here. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-i-post-on-has-been-overrun-by-morons/350215/8 "2006-03-28T14:45:11Z")
Okay, for the record **Opal** , my previous post was _supposed_ to have this quote in it: > [@](#): > > A board I was on for a while got so bad that people’s fully-loaded HTML-with-full-page-image FREAKIN SIGS took up 99% of the space on the page… you’d literally have people posting nothing but “lol me2” and then three screen-scrolls full of their tardtastic sig. It was unreal. It’s sad when the idiots overrun places you like Dunno why hitting “reply” gave me the other quote instead… ---
**Author:** ![MessyPaint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@MessyPaint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MessyPaint)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-i-post-on-has-been-overrun-by-morons/350215/9 "2006-03-28T14:53:23Z")
Does anyone remember the '99 to '01 days of the Incubus Band board? I remember having the most involved conversations there with fans. It was a dangerous hobby! It’s dead there now, the last post was six months ago. * * * Sticks and Bristles ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-i-post-on-has-been-overrun-by-morons/350215/10 "2006-03-28T16:57:24Z")
> [@Ruffian](#): > > Signatures are obscenely HUGE and include about a half dozen pictures, gifs, you name it. Mine is small comparatively–just a countdown to my due date and two (reduced) ultrasound pics of my son. My signature is about half the size of most others. UGH. Worst was the one girl who ALWAYS had a video linked in her signature–anything from U2 to miscellaneous country songs to some gawdawful cheesy crap. It would make a thread take for-EVER to load, and then you had to listen to that musical crap every time you opened the page. This is one of the reasons I don’t frequent video game message boards…the sigs make my head hurt. The posts make my head hurt sometimes, too. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-i-post-on-has-been-overrun-by-morons/350215/11 "2006-03-28T17:14:11Z")
_gets out the guitar_ \*Summer has come and passed The innocent can never last wake me up when september ends as my memory rests but never forgets what I lost wake me up when september ends\* A cookie to anyone who has any clue as to what the hell I’m going on about. ---
**Author:** ![MessyPaint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@MessyPaint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MessyPaint)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-i-post-on-has-been-overrun-by-morons/350215/12 "2006-03-28T17:18:48Z")
> [@FlyingRamenMonster](#): > > _gets out the guitar_ > > \*Summer has come and passed > The innocent can never last > wake me up when september ends > > as my memory rests > but never forgets what I lost > wake me up when september ends\* > > A cookie to anyone who has any clue as to what the hell I’m going on about. ugh, I cannot stand that song. Give me a cookie. p.s. I love your handle **FlyingRamenMonster**. One of my favorites here. ---
**Author:** ![Stainz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Stainz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stainz)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-i-post-on-has-been-overrun-by-morons/350215/13 "2006-03-28T17:20:34Z")
**Ruffian** - wait until you move on to any parenting (“mommy”) boards - they are just as bad, if not worse. I have yet to find one I like, but hidden in all the CRAP there is sometimes some good information, so I patiently wade through many moronic posts and gigantic sigs, just in case I find something that is useful. I lost my message board virginity to the Straight Dope and it has spoiled me for any others. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-i-post-on-has-been-overrun-by-morons/350215/14 "2006-03-28T17:29:02Z")
> [@MessyPaint](#): > > ugh, I cannot stand that song. Give me a cookie. > > p.s. I love your handle **FlyingRamenMonster**. One of my favorites here. Woohoo! All the goodness of Creationism, in under five minutes 😃 As for the song… [psssst](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September). I think it’s a mark of my geekiness that that song has never meant to me whatever Green Day intended it to mean. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-i-post-on-has-been-overrun-by-morons/350215/15 "2006-03-28T17:45:08Z")
_slaps **FlyingRamenMonster** with a wet trout_ Now, where’s my cookie? ---
**Author:** ![MessyPaint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@MessyPaint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MessyPaint)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-i-post-on-has-been-overrun-by-morons/350215/16 "2006-03-28T17:47:36Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > _slaps **FlyingRamenMonster** with a wet trout_ > > Now, where’s my cookie? I ate it. mwuha :smack: 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-i-post-on-has-been-overrun-by-morons/350215/17 "2006-03-28T17:48:27Z")
> [@MessyPaint](#): > > I ate it. mwuha :smack: When the revolution comes, you die _first_. ---
**Author:** ![MessyPaint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@MessyPaint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MessyPaint)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-i-post-on-has-been-overrun-by-morons/350215/18 "2006-03-28T17:54:07Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > When the revolution comes, you die _first_. Well, you won’t have to kill me because I just choked on the cookie from laughing so much. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-i-post-on-has-been-overrun-by-morons/350215/19 "2006-03-28T18:44:00Z")
> [@This space intentionally blank](#): > > (lol!! i totally get it omg!, **et cetera** ) Um, I think you meant “ect”. 😉 > [@Stainz](#): > > I lost my message board virginity to the Straight Dope and it has spoiled me for any others. Same here. I cringe at the thought of reading any others. ---
**Author:** ![PurpleKat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PurpleKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleKat)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-i-post-on-has-been-overrun-by-morons/350215/20 "2006-03-29T09:41:08Z")
> [@Robot Arm](#): > > In the good old days of Usenet, there was an entire group called alt.fan.warlord for making fun of people who had elaborate, bandwidth-wasting sig files. One of the funniest things I have read in the entire history of the internet was when someone was taken to task for posting a two-line message followed by a twenty-five-line ASCII graphic of Boba Fett. Sadly, the [copy in the Usenet archives](http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.warlord/browse_thread/thread/7648cd5045d6bb53/3fdaf04b0d3eda7b?rnum=1#3fdaf04b0d3eda7b) does not include the graphic, and it kinda loses something without that. I just wanted to remark that the post about the giant BOBA FETT was funny enough to make me laugh 'till I cried. Dunno if it’s one of the funniest things I’ve read on the internet, because I’ve read some pretty funny stuff, but it’s definately up there.