I’ve noticed the odd pattern of forum IDs that show up in the links to view the seperate forums off the SDMB main page, but today I finally got around to listing all of them. The forum IDs, in ascending order, seem to show a fairly natural chronological order:
forum name id
Comments on Cecil's columns 1
About this message board 2
General Questions 3
MPSIMS 4
The BBQ Pit 5
Comments on Staff reports 6
Great Debates 7
In My Humble Opinion 12
Café Society 13
I’m curious about the gap between GD at 7 and IMHO at 12, though… are there a few forums that have gotten removed from the lineup? I haven’t been on the board for that long and I don’t remember any change.
Also, if this should be in GQ or something, let me know. I thought since it was board-related that ‘about’ was the best place for it.
There are fora that are only for the mods and admins, which are not visible to us regular members. I would imagine there are also fora for only the admins, as well, but I don’t know for sure.
There are some secret forums which were accidentally on display immediately after the upgrade, and in which I posted.
They are exclusively for mods and/or admins.
There are some secret forums which were accidentally on display immediately after the upgrade, and in which I posted.
AH HA! Evidence of a secret society right here in the SDMB!
Also, there is rumour that some of the folks who assign stuff to stuff are not real adept at counting in base 10, they’re computer-wizards, they count base 8. Thus, only 10 and 11 were missing, that was the night the secret cache of scotch disappeared, too.
One of them is the Troll File. When necessary, Lynn uploads offenders as digital binary large objects (blobs) and stores them in the Troll File, which prevents them from reregistering under a new screen name.
On vBulletin, when you make a new subforum, it will give it a number that is one higher than the last subforum that was created. When a forum is deleted, the next forum created after that won’t have the number of the deleted forum.
Let’s say I’ve got a fresh copy of vBulletin, and I create four forums.
General Talk (1)
Board Questions (2)
Board Announcements (3)
I decide to get rid of Board Questions, not by renaming but by removing it. I add a new subforum for geeks. Now, I’ve got …
General Talk (1)
Board Announcements (3)
Computers, Anime, Star Trek, RPGs and Monty Python (4)
So what exactly was it that you linked to that seemed so dangerous that Czarcasm had to replace it with a link to that dumb broads* section of the website?