# Curious about the name of one of the boards

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**Created:** [January 13, 2020, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-the-name-of-one-of-the-boards/846332 "2020-01-13T02:25:55Z")\
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> [@Atamasama](#):
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> IMHO is for soliciting or providing opinions about general topics. **MPSIMS is for just talking about totally generic “whatever” topics that don’t fit elsewhere.** That’s how I’ve always interpreted their uses.

And yet… And yet…

A certain mod just recently closed a GQ thread on the grounds that it doesn’t belong in GQ, nor anywhere else on this board either. Given the responses it had received so far, I thought it might have fit well enough in Politics or IMHO or, failing that, in the catch-all MPSIMS. I didn’t see anything fully Pit-worthy there.

So apparently MPSIMS isn’t the catch-all for “topics that don’t fit elsewhere”.

> [@Trump Presidential Library](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-presidential-library/846299/4):
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> [Moderating]
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> It looks like you’re attempting to ask factual questions here, which makes this thread not a good fit for non-GQ forums. But you’re also framing the questions in a way that makes it not a good fit for GQ, either. **I therefore find that this thread doesn’t fit anywhere on the board.** Make up your mind on what thread you want: If you want to complain about Trump, then write an OP to that effect, and put it in either Politics or the Pit. If you want to ask factual questions about presidential libraries, then write an OP to that effect, and post that OP here.

What, we’re not allowed to discuss _facts_ or even a mixture of facts and opinions in non-GQ places now?

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