# Can we get rid of Boo! in the drop down menu? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 19, 2011, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-rid-of-boo-in-the-drop-down-menu/603488 "2011-11-19T21:28:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-rid-of-boo-in-the-drop-down-menu/603488/1 "2011-11-19T21:28:04Z")
It’s cluttered enough as it is. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-rid-of-boo-in-the-drop-down-menu/603488/2 "2011-11-19T21:35:09Z")
And is there really any point in keeping either a subforum with no posts or a forum with locked posts only members can see? ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-rid-of-boo-in-the-drop-down-menu/603488/3 "2011-11-19T21:39:55Z")
I agree, fuck Boo. Don’t want to be reminded of it. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-rid-of-boo-in-the-drop-down-menu/603488/4 "2011-11-19T22:15:11Z")
Or just put it somewhere else. When you open MPSIMS, it’s there cluttering up the top of the thread list. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-rid-of-boo-in-the-drop-down-menu/603488/5 "2011-11-19T22:25:09Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > It’s cluttered enough as it is. Yeah, can we? Put it down in the “Side Conversations” area so we don’t have to look at that inert indigo bar all the time. Pretty please. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-rid-of-boo-in-the-drop-down-menu/603488/6 "2011-11-20T03:52:14Z")
It’s off the Jump Menu. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-rid-of-boo-in-the-drop-down-menu/603488/7 "2011-11-21T08:23:08Z")
It’s still consuming valuable page inches at the top of the MPSIMS thread list though - are we just stuck with that? ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-rid-of-boo-in-the-drop-down-menu/603488/8 "2011-11-21T10:29:20Z")
I’m afraid so. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-rid-of-boo-in-the-drop-down-menu/603488/9 "2011-11-21T11:32:57Z")
I just realised something. If you click on “main” you see the BOO bar. If you click on STMB (which allows the Side Conversations view) the BOO bar disappears. There’s an option for those of us who don’t want to see the BOO bar on the front page. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-rid-of-boo-in-the-drop-down-menu/603488/10 "2011-11-21T11:35:21Z")
Added - the BOO forum doesn’t _completely_ disappear on the STMB front page; it shows as a MPSIMS sub-forum. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-rid-of-boo-in-the-drop-down-menu/603488/11 "2011-11-21T15:05:51Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > It’s still consuming valuable page inches at the top of the MPSIMS thread list though - are we just stuck with that? Valuable page inches? Really? ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-rid-of-boo-in-the-drop-down-menu/603488/12 "2011-11-21T15:50:41Z")
It’s visual clutter between the top of the page and the start of stuff you actually want to read. It means scrolling the page down. That’s “valuable page inches”. Okay, I’m going to scroll anyway. It’s the principle! ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-rid-of-boo-in-the-drop-down-menu/603488/13 "2011-11-21T16:45:20Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Valuable page inches? Really? Yes really. On a netbook or handhold device, no thread titles are visible at all until you scroll down - just these blue bars telling me about some locked forum. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2011, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-rid-of-boo-in-the-drop-down-menu/603488/14 "2011-11-21T16:52:15Z")
Not just a locked forum, a locked forum with what appears to be no threads. (I think the viewing permissions got screwed up in the move.) What’s funny is that I doubt many people have noticed that there aren’t any threads in the forum. Why? Because no one’s clicking on it. Why? Because it’s a locked, topical forum on an uninteresting topic. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-rid-of-boo-in-the-drop-down-menu/603488/15 "2011-11-21T22:08:36Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > I’m afraid so. Sorry. Why? Is it a technical problem, or a management decision? ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-rid-of-boo-in-the-drop-down-menu/603488/16 "2011-11-22T00:28:42Z")
The **Boo!** subforum is perhaps my favorite subforum on Earth…and possibly beyond. Please do not take it away. It brings me joy; it instills me with not only vim, but vigor, too. It is my raison d’etre. I don’t ask for much; don’t mess with **Boo!**. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-rid-of-boo-in-the-drop-down-menu/603488/17 "2011-11-22T01:04:05Z")
Is it really going to stay like it is? I have the Main page of the SDMB bookmarked as my landing place, and i get a large blue slash across the screen, above Marketplace and the BBQ Pit. I assumed that it would be removed or made invisible after a time. Can’t it be put under Side Conversations, or maybe in a separate, Archive section below that? Having it deface the Main section like it does is completely ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-rid-of-boo-in-the-drop-down-menu/603488/18 "2011-11-22T02:02:19Z")
No, it’s not a “Side Conversation.” It’s a MPSIMS-y kind of forum and it’s right where it belongs. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-rid-of-boo-in-the-drop-down-menu/603488/19 "2011-11-22T02:16:25Z")
Okay, let’s try this again, sorry about that – the Boo! forum is supposed to be: 1. A subforum of MPSIMS. 2. Read only. I was not aware it wasn’t displaying threads. It should be displaying properly now – you just can’t write to it. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-rid-of-boo-in-the-drop-down-menu/603488/20 "2011-11-22T03:28:49Z")
> [@Tibbytoes](#): > > The **Boo!** subforum is perhaps my favorite subforum on Earth…and possibly beyond. Please do not take it away. It brings me joy; it instills me with not only vim, but vigor, too. It is my raison d’etre. I don’t ask for much; don’t mess with **Boo!**. Reverse psychology? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-rid-of-boo-in-the-drop-down-menu/603488.md?page=2)