# 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:** 13\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![threnodyangelfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@threnodyangelfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threnodyangelfire)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2009, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcement-giraffeboards-com/488027/61 "2009-03-06T04:09:35Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > Spamming _and_ trolling! It’s gonna be great! I’m in! LOL I’m only MORE convinced that it’s the right thing to do after receiving the welcome email. > [@](#): > > Unless you’re an idiot, in which case we’d appreciate it if you would hit yourself in the head with a hammer. ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2009, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcement-giraffeboards-com/488027/62 "2009-03-06T05:29:39Z")
I’m there. And here. And I’ll pay fifteen bucks a year for each, if I have to. I can’t help it. I’ve conquered addiction to tobacco and successfully avoided addictions to liquor, drugs, gambling, shopping and internet porn. How bad can discussion boards be? ---
**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 7, 2009, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcement-giraffeboards-com/488027/63 "2009-03-07T17:56:53Z")
> [@Sunrazor](#): > > I’m there. And here. And I’ll pay fifteen bucks a year for each, if I have to. I’m hoping to keep it free forever. I’m covering our current hosting right now, but a saint who wishes to remain anonymous has offered us some high-end hosting on a VPS for free if and when we need it. And hosting is our only expense – I’m making the mods buy their own coffee mugs. So you should never have to choose between online addictions. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slip\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f475e1/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slip\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slip_1)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2009, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcement-giraffeboards-com/488027/64 "2009-03-07T18:03:01Z")
I’m there too … yay me 🙂 Given I have limited time, not sure how much I’ll be on over here. The tone here has changed, and I feel more comfy as a 'Raffer. And though I was unsure at first, avatars are pretty neat. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2009, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcement-giraffeboards-com/488027/65 "2009-03-07T19:40:12Z")
As someone who has hit themselves in the head with a hammer, I resent that. (No, it was on purpose. Don’t ask. Also, _never_ do it with a drop hammer. The effect is… different.) ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcement-giraffeboards-com/488027/66 "2009-03-08T02:27:59Z")
Just to ask, I’ve seen repeated references on other threads to TWO “other” boards. One is **Giraffe’s**. What’s the other? And since I ask this question because I’m curious about this whole “other board” thing, I’m also interested in something I saw mentioned in another thread: one reason why “splinter” boards tend to go stagnant is because they don’t have a central draw that outsiders would know about, like the SD column. What are **Giraffe’s** and the other board’s founder’s plans to keep the new blood flowin’? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcement-giraffeboards-com/488027/67 "2009-03-08T02:41:24Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > Just to ask, I’ve seen repeated references on other threads to TWO “other” boards. One is **Giraffe’s**. What’s the other? > > And since I ask this question because I’m curious about this whole “other board” thing, I’m also interested in something I saw mentioned in another thread: one reason why “splinter” boards tend to go stagnant is because they don’t have a central draw that outsiders would know about, like the SD column. What are **Giraffe’s** and the other board’s founder’s plans to keep the new blood flowin’? The other board is domebo and [announced here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=509392). I don’t want to hijack **Giraffe** ’s thread so if you want to ask questions there, I think it would the place for answers. ---
**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 8, 2009, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcement-giraffeboards-com/488027/68 "2009-03-08T05:54:30Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > What are **Giraffe’s** and the other board’s founder’s plans to keep the new blood flowin’? It’s a very good question. For now, the plan is to just give Dopers a second place to goof around and waste time, with sufficiently different rules and tone that it fulfills a different function than the SDMB. We’re bandying about some ideas for how to attract non-Dopers, whether its some sort of front page content or just a bunch of black vans and duct tape. Worst that happens, we revert to cannibalism. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcement-giraffeboards-com/488027/69 "2009-03-08T11:37:52Z")
Wait a second - I didn’t see anything about cannibalism in the By-Laws! Isn’t that bait and switch?? I was promised milkshakes and footrubs - no talk of cannibalism. What ever happened to truth in advertising?? _\_ ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcement-giraffeboards-com/488027/70 "2009-03-09T03:12:56Z")
I’m there with my SDMB username\*, making wise-ass remarks and generally being ignored. It’s okay, though–I enjoy the opportunity to participate in the fomentation of a new message board \*but I really want to change to _Illya Kuriakin_ to go with my spiffy new avatar. ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcement-giraffeboards-com/488027/71 "2009-03-10T21:09:58Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > Worst that happens, we revert to cannibalism. mmmm. Let me know when Foie Gras, Pulykamel and Tastes Of Chocolate join. Oh, and Hawaiian Pizza. There’s a poster called Hawaiian Pizza right? ---
**Author:** ![Glazer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a88e57/32.png) [@Glazer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glazer)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcement-giraffeboards-com/488027/72 "2012-11-29T07:34:15Z")
> [@Lionne](#): > > I’ve joined. Yay..a Pit! A real, wonderful, mother-fing Pit! What a joke that turned out to be. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcement-giraffeboards-com/488027/73 "2012-11-29T16:30:26Z")
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