# Combine CSR and CC?

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**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [January 9, 2011, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/combine-csr-and-cc/566954 "2011-01-09T06:23:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/combine-csr-and-cc/566954/20 "2011-01-09T21:18:42Z")

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> [@Una\_Persson](#):
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> Well, the entire message board would not have existed save for the Straight Dope column. Perhaps more of us who are older in message board terms see much more of a direct connection between the two.

Sure, but the message board has evolved from its origins and is now a general discussion forum, can you not see that?

This recent post detailing that evolution shows that half a dozen new subforums were created that had nothing to do with the Straight Dope column:

> [@Why aren't there more forums?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-there-more-forums/566804/14):
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> When The Straight Dope left AOl and [straightdope.com](http://straightdope.com) was originally set up using vBulletin forum software, the forums were:  
> About This Message Board, aka ATMB  
> Comments on Cecil’s Columns / Comments on Staff Reports  
> General Questions, aka GQ  
> Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share, aka MPSIMS (the forum title comes from the name of a discussion thread at the AOL board)
> 
> Then The BBQ Pit made an appearance to confine the fights to one forum
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> After that Great Debates, aka GD due to popular demand  
> then In My Humble Opinion (aka IMHO), again due to popular demand (the half-way point between GQ and GD)
> 
> The first “subject-based” forum was Cafe Society, which was a departure to the way the forums were divided before. Now any type of discussion (be it GQ, GD or IMHO) about the arts was supposed to be in that forum.  
> After that came The Game Room for all those WoW / Mafia / Sports lovers.
> 
> The board owner added Straight Dope Chicago for his new column about Chicago.
> 
> 2010 U.S. Election was created as an experiment to placate people tired of seeing political discussions in GD, and finally Marketplace was added, again due to popular demand.

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