# Announcement: Giraffeboards.com **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 2, 2009, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcement-giraffeboards-com/488027 "2009-03-02T17:06:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcement-giraffeboards-com/488027/21 "2009-03-02T19:31:54Z")
I like your boards, **Giraffe**. I’m already registered, have posted, and have bookmarked The Giraffe Boards to my favorites. Thanks! Not that I need someplace to cuss and carry on more violently, I just like more blathering room. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcement-giraffeboards-com/488027/22 "2009-03-02T19:44:43Z")
I’m there, dude. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcement-giraffeboards-com/488027/23 "2009-03-02T19:45:39Z")
> [@SkipMagic](#): > > This is the third time today I’ve told you to stop posting advertising links without permission. Since you don’t want to heed our warnings, your posting privileges will be under discussion. By “third”, do you mean “second”? And the item you just removed from my previous post was not a link; it was simply the word “domebo”. I did the same thing **two days ago** in [this post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10889133&postcount=992), and didn’t hear a goddamned peep of disapproval. Kindly get your act together, come back and explain why you can’t tolerate the mention of a new board in a thread devoted to a new board? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcement-giraffeboards-com/488027/24 "2009-03-02T19:52:42Z")
> [@Baldwin](#): > > By “third”, do you mean “second”? And the item you just removed from my previous post was not a link; it was simply the word “domebo”. This is not true, you linked to the forum in each post. Please take any further disputes on this to ATMB. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcement-giraffeboards-com/488027/25 "2009-03-02T19:53:55Z")
This is the third time I’ve removed your spam links today, not the second. Secondly, you posted the URL each of those times (including this last one). Finally, this particular hijack is over. If you want to continue having a discussion about your warning, you can do so in a separate thread. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcement-giraffeboards-com/488027/26 "2009-03-02T22:33:33Z")
SkipMagic – now that I’ve read CRSP’s explanation of what’s going on, I’ll gladly comply. See how much a little explanation helps? Stop being so high-handed. (And, no, I didn’t include a URL each time; stop saying that.) Giraffe – sorry for the hijack. Best wishes regarding your board; it must be exciting to start one of those from scratch. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcement-giraffeboards-com/488027/27 "2009-03-02T23:06:38Z")
1.) You were [told right away](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=10894021#post10894021) to not post a link advertising a web site without staff permission, so your claims of “not having an explanation” ring pretty hollow. And yet you persisted in doing otherwise. 2.) You posted a URL in each of the three posts under discussion. [1](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3557/3323411057_80c251faa1_o.jpg), [2](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3185/3323411071_9f882dc594_o.jpg), and [3](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3562/3323411073_d0d2a00cfd_o.jpg). Your statements to the contrary have no basis in the truth. 3.) Finally, you were told to take any further discussion of this matter to another thread. You refused to follow even that direction, and have continued to hijack this one, so you’ve earned yourself another warning. ---
**Author:** ![DudleyGarrett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcement-giraffeboards-com/488027/28 "2009-03-02T23:09:55Z")
Hey Giraffe, uh, good luck with your board… ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcement-giraffeboards-com/488027/29 "2009-03-02T23:18:27Z")
I’ve joined! Ready to start spamming away! That’s…what you do there, right? ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcement-giraffeboards-com/488027/30 "2009-03-02T23:22:06Z")
> [@Tracy\_Lord](#): > > I’ve joined! Ready to start spamming away! That’s…what you do there, right? Spamming _and_ trolling! It’s gonna be great! ---
**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcement-giraffeboards-com/488027/31 "2009-03-02T23:25:19Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > Spamming _and_ trolling! It’s gonna be great! What about posting nekked pictures of ourselves without a two-click rule? Please say that’s allowed too… all my hopes and wishes will have come true if it is. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcement-giraffeboards-com/488027/32 "2009-03-02T23:49:43Z")
> [@Mahna\_Mahna](#): > > What about posting nekked pictures of ourselves without a two-click rule? Please say that’s allowed too… all my hopes and wishes will have come true if it is. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcement-giraffeboards-com/488027/33 "2009-03-03T00:00:47Z")
_cue the wah-wah trumpet_ So much for my attempt at wit. Sigh. I’ma go back to the MMP where it’s cuddly and everyone laughs at my feeble jokes. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcement-giraffeboards-com/488027/34 "2009-03-03T00:16:16Z")
Geez, with all these splinter groups, I’m gonna need some heavier armor to cover my ass. And now I’m gonna end up feeling I’ve betrayed somebody if I don’t join every board. I know of 3 boards now, 2 of them formed in the last week, that are clearly a response to changes around here, despite denials. I’m sure there are more that I haven’t heard of yet. I worry about whether all the boards including SDMB, will end up below some critical mass, and crash and burn. I wish you all luck. I think I’m gonna hang here a while. I just can’t get too worked up about restrictions on how I can insult other members. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcement-giraffeboards-com/488027/35 "2009-03-03T00:20:16Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > Spamming _and_ trolling! It’s gonna be great! Tramming? Sprolling? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcement-giraffeboards-com/488027/36 "2009-03-03T01:11:24Z")
Ah, great. I already spend too much time here, now there’s another board as well? I had no idea that long-necked herbivores were so, well, _evil_. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcement-giraffeboards-com/488027/37 "2009-03-03T01:15:53Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I wish you all luck. I think I’m gonna hang here a while. You and me both, kiddo. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcement-giraffeboards-com/488027/38 "2009-03-03T03:15:57Z")
I hope the SDMB fragments into a thousand boards and Ed learns a lesson about life in that you never do better business by pissing off your existing clientele. That being said, I am going over to the domebo boards for the most part. I figure all things considered ultimately they’ll be the same thing. Generally smaller boards are better anyway, they are more intimate. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcement-giraffeboards-com/488027/39 "2009-03-03T06:13:16Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > I hope the SDMB fragments into a thousand boards and Ed learns a lesson about life in that you never do better business by pissing off your existing clientele. For some reason I keep hearing the Creative Loafing CEO bellowing “Zotti!” in a Superintendent Chalmers voice. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcement-giraffeboards-com/488027/40 "2009-03-03T08:46:58Z")
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