The “Other Boards” thread was closed wile I was reading it. But in all of the request for clarification one thing was never asked.
What exactly are **Board Wars**?It’s where the members of two message boards get into a grudge match against each other and show up on each others board to cause trouble.
Search for “Left Behind Message Board” to see a board war the SDMB had years ago.
Have you tried looking for that recently? Either my google-fu is weak or there aren’t enough clues there. . . or both.
I can’t get the search function to work. I just get a blank page and refreshing tells me I just searched.
For what it’s worth I’m near positive it was started by a poster named Satan and it was in 2001 or earlier.
:smack: Oooh. You were telling me to search the Dope archives. I thought you meant to look for the message board on google to see what happened there. :o
OK, making much more sense now. Thanks.
This began (and largely documents) the board war with LBMB:
For David B, the good Doctor and others who are knowledgable about Creation debate
IME Board Wars are most often nipped in the bud by mods, so most people don’t realise that an attempt was made. Sorry, but I can’t give links.
There was a good one with one of the more “influential” white supremacist message boards more recently. 2005ish, maybe>?
As fun as it is to talk about past board wars, I think Glazer wanted to know, in general, what constitutes one. A board war is when a bunch of posters from one messageboard join another for the sole purpose of raising havoc and being jerks. The SDMB has weathered two such attacks: one from the Left Behind messageboard and another from Stormfront, a neo-nazi board.