# A Modest SDMB Proposal **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 31, 2016, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-modest-sdmb-proposal/770282 "2016-10-31T17:58:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-modest-sdmb-proposal/770282/1 "2016-10-31T17:58:33Z")
Submitted: that from November 11 through November 30, 2016, all political discussion is tabu on the Dope. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-modest-sdmb-proposal/770282/2 "2016-10-31T18:29:27Z")
No thanks. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-modest-sdmb-proposal/770282/3 "2016-10-31T18:34:37Z")
Do you mean this [Tabu?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabu_(actress)) Or this [one](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2153963/)? Or maybe a Dopefest at [Tabu](http://www.tabusushibar.com/). Your treat. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-modest-sdmb-proposal/770282/4 "2016-10-31T18:37:57Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Or maybe a Dopefest at [Tabu](http://www.tabusushibar.com/). Your treat. “As Seen on Fox Channel 5”?? Good god man, we’re looking for an _escape_ from politics! ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-modest-sdmb-proposal/770282/5 "2016-10-31T18:40:21Z")
I respectfully decline your proposal. I’ll gladly share a beverage of choice with any Doper close enough to celebrate that the blasted thing is over though. I’m in mid-Oregon (between Eugene and Portland). ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-modest-sdmb-proposal/770282/6 "2016-10-31T18:47:27Z")
I don’t want to read about something, therefore everyone should be forbidden to discuss it. Makes total sense! ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-modest-sdmb-proposal/770282/7 "2016-10-31T18:51:42Z")
Why November 11th? Election day is on the 9th. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-modest-sdmb-proposal/770282/8 "2016-10-31T19:01:02Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Why November 11th? Election day is on the 9th. Think carefully. When is it? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TheChileanBlob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thechileanblob/32/435_2.png) [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-modest-sdmb-proposal/770282/9 "2016-10-31T19:17:24Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Do you mean this [Tabu?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabu_(actress)) > Or this [one](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2153963/)? > Or maybe a Dopefest at [Tabu](http://www.tabusushibar.com/). Your treat. Or [Tabu](https://www.amazon.com/Dana-Women-Cologne-3-Ounce-Bottle/dp/B000VOHP8U), the cheap-ass perfume we doused ourselves with in high school. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-modest-sdmb-proposal/770282/10 "2016-10-31T19:24:30Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Think carefully. When is it? 🙂 November 8, “First Tuesday after the first Monday, unless it is a leap year” or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-modest-sdmb-proposal/770282/11 "2016-10-31T19:25:45Z")
There’s an election? ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-modest-sdmb-proposal/770282/12 "2016-10-31T19:50:05Z")
To prevent serious injury, contact your doctor immediately if you experience an election lasting longer than four hours. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-modest-sdmb-proposal/770282/13 "2016-10-31T19:52:39Z")
Vote for Pedro! ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-modest-sdmb-proposal/770282/14 "2016-10-31T20:09:36Z")
so wil the election forum be just politics in general from now on ? ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-modest-sdmb-proposal/770282/15 "2016-10-31T20:20:16Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > Submitted: that from November 11 through November 30, 2016, all political discussion is tabu on the Dope. Bur, but, by November 30, we’ll already be 22 days into the 2020 campaign! ---
**Author:** ![somepumpkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@somepumpkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/somepumpkin)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-modest-sdmb-proposal/770282/16 "2016-10-31T20:40:25Z")
Let’s give them until the 14th. Weekend parties and all… ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-modest-sdmb-proposal/770282/17 "2016-10-31T20:54:04Z")
Dumb idea-making rules that nobody will follow isn’t a good model for a board. Besides…90+ percent of the problem was solved when Elections was finally created. Used to be that we’d have election discussions in every forum except GQ. Threads like “Urkel was stupid on Family Matters. Bush is STUPID TOO!” in CS, etc. Elections corralled most of this and the mods have been pretty firm about stopping bullshit drive-by electioneering when they catch it. Terrible solution in search of a problem that doesn’t exist. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-modest-sdmb-proposal/770282/18 "2016-10-31T21:41:46Z")
I thought there was going to be talk of eating babies. I was excited. But now I am sad. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-modest-sdmb-proposal/770282/19 "2016-11-01T19:16:37Z")
Would you like your baby slathered in a ketchup based BBQ sauce or a mustard based BBQ sauce? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-modest-sdmb-proposal/770282/20 "2016-11-01T19:32:48Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Would you like your baby slathered in a ketchup based BBQ sauce or a mustard based BBQ sauce? [See this?](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/679/why-is-there-no-ketchup-on-a-properly-made-hot-dog) It goes _double_ for babies. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-modest-sdmb-proposal/770282.md?page=2)