# Ask the Member of an Internet Message Board.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-member-of-an-internet-message-board/464847
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 23, 2008, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-member-of-an-internet-message-board/464847 "2008-09-23T15:58:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2008, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-member-of-an-internet-message-board/464847/1 "2008-09-23T15:58:24Z")
In response to Boyo’s “Ask the American” thread.
I’ve been a Member of an Internet Message Board all my life. Go ahead, ask.
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### Author:  [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2008, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-member-of-an-internet-message-board/464847/2 "2008-09-23T15:59:49Z")
What’s next?
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### Author:  [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2008, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-member-of-an-internet-message-board/464847/3 "2008-09-23T16:01:02Z")
How do you deal with the pressure?
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### Author:  [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2008, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-member-of-an-internet-message-board/464847/4 "2008-09-23T16:03:44Z")
All your life?
How old are you?
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### Author:  [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2008, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-member-of-an-internet-message-board/464847/5 "2008-09-23T16:07:18Z")
Do you believe that you were born a member of an internet message board, or is being a member of an internet message board the result of a conscious choice you’ve made?
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2008, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-member-of-an-internet-message-board/464847/6 "2008-09-23T16:12:36Z")
> [@Hampshire](#):
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> All your life?
> How old are you?
Well I was born in March, 2002.
So I’m six.
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2008, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-member-of-an-internet-message-board/464847/7 "2008-09-23T16:13:43Z")
> [@pravnik](#):
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> Do you believe that you were born a member of an internet message board, or is being a member of an internet message board the result of a conscious choice you’ve made?
I was born that way. I don’t consider it a curse though (Well sometimes it can be)
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### Author:  [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2008, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-member-of-an-internet-message-board/464847/8 "2008-09-23T16:17:35Z")
Are scalar weapons for real?
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2008, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-member-of-an-internet-message-board/464847/9 "2008-09-23T16:27:25Z")
> [@vetbridge](#):
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> How do you deal with the pressure?
I have no physical body. I am just the only Member without a human part.
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### Author:  [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2008, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-member-of-an-internet-message-board/464847/10 "2008-09-23T16:45:39Z")
> [@Lobsang](#):
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> I have no physical body. I am just the only Member without a human part.
A member with no members, as it were.
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2008, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-member-of-an-internet-message-board/464847/11 "2008-09-23T17:20:19Z")
Has your ass grafted to your chair?
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2008, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-member-of-an-internet-message-board/464847/12 "2008-09-23T17:36:38Z")
Honest question: Do some of your friends and family members consider your message boarding to be a little “weird”?
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### Author:  [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2008, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-member-of-an-internet-message-board/464847/13 "2008-09-23T17:41:22Z")
What do you say to those who consider message boarding a kind of torture?
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### Author:  [@Wakinyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wakinyan)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2008, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-member-of-an-internet-message-board/464847/14 "2008-09-23T17:55:46Z")
Do you as a life long member of a message board believe in the “Moderator”; and if so, do you believe that the message board or its members can be influenced by the Moderator? (Like being “banned”, i.e. “cursed” or “excommunicated”.)
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2008, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-member-of-an-internet-message-board/464847/15 "2008-09-23T18:11:48Z")
> [@Musicat](#):
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> What do you say to those who consider message boarding a kind of torture?
Stay out of GD?
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### Author:  [@unspun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unspun)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2008, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-member-of-an-internet-message-board/464847/16 "2008-09-23T20:41:47Z")
Could you condense all the internet wisdom you’ve been exposed to into less than three sentences (and share it 🙂 )?
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### Author:  [@unspun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unspun)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-member-of-an-internet-message-board/464847/17 "2008-09-23T20:49:01Z")
missed the edit window, but I still feel compelled to correct myself and say _fewer_ than… ☹
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### Author:  [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2008, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-member-of-an-internet-message-board/464847/18 "2008-09-23T20:51:14Z")
How do I keep my threads from sinking like a stone?
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### Author:  [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2008, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-member-of-an-internet-message-board/464847/19 "2008-09-23T20:59:33Z")
> [@tdn](#):
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> Honest question: Do some of your friends and family members consider your message boarding to be a little “weird”?
I’ll field this one!!
Yes.
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### Author:  [@Shrinking\_Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shrinking_Violet)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2008, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-member-of-an-internet-message-board/464847/20 "2008-09-23T21:01:33Z")
Would you care to tell us which “Internet Message Board” you are a member of, and what exactly does the term mean?
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