# DOn' Happy Thoughts. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 2, 2011, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-happy-thoughts/576937 "2011-04-02T13:12:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-happy-thoughts/576937/1 "2011-04-02T13:12:45Z")
It was the best damn forum on the dope. I didn’t see one banning from that forum. In fact, there wasn’t even a single warning given. Edit… See how upset I am, between my new laptop’s screwy keybpoard and my being pissed off, I can’t even type a title right. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-happy-thoughts/576937/2 "2011-04-02T13:19:29Z")
We did give “mod notes” to people who weren’t cheerful enough, but we weren’t going to give actual warnings for an April Fool’s joke (although we would have if there had been serious violations, like personal insults.) However, here’s the deep dark secret: there’s no reason that y’all can’t post happy, cheerful threads in MPSIMS even if there’s not a specific forum. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-happy-thoughts/576937/3 "2011-04-02T13:42:02Z")
Still, it’s like promising a hungry crowd steak. Kitty pictures, rainbow pictures, smilies. I foresaw a forum where running in flower fields naked like a 2011 Woodstock would be a daily thing, with skinny dipping cheerleaders and more. And it’s gone. Not only that Wendy, I can no longer fly now that you’ve taken my Happy Thoughts. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-happy-thoughts/576937/4 "2011-04-02T17:04:04Z")
In its short life, it’s attracted precisely 1 post less than the Marketplace forum has since its inception August last year as of this moment. It’s not a fair comparison of course, but if you had to close one down… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-happy-thoughts/576937/5 "2011-04-02T20:00:43Z")
Wouldn’t it be great if we could just have it a little while longer? Ah well, we still have the memories. . . ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-happy-thoughts/576937/6 "2011-04-02T20:17:38Z")
> [@Rushgeekgirl](#): > > Wouldn’t it be great if we could just have it a little while longer? > > Ah well, we still have the memories. . . Actually, we are scheduling memory erasure for the 10th and 11th of April. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2011, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-happy-thoughts/576937/7 "2011-04-02T20:20:26Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Actually, we are scheduling memory erasure for the 10th and 11th of April. But we’ll still remember if you keep that title… ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-happy-thoughts/576937/8 "2011-04-02T20:27:23Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > But we’ll still remember if you keep that title… ??? ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-happy-thoughts/576937/9 "2011-04-02T20:36:04Z")
Have we always been able to post pics in threads or was that just allowed in the HT forum? Now I’m sorry I missed it but I try to avoid the Internet on 4/1. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-happy-thoughts/576937/10 "2011-04-02T20:41:17Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > Have we always been able to post pics in threads or was that just allowed in the HT forum? > > Now I’m sorry I missed it but I try to avoid the Internet on 4/1. They are currently allowed in the _Marketplace_ forum only. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-happy-thoughts/576937/11 "2011-04-03T02:04:18Z")
It was an accident. Pictures weren’t disabled when the new forum was set up. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-happy-thoughts/576937/12 "2011-04-03T04:22:30Z")
> [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](#): > > It was an accident. Pictures weren’t disabled when the new forum was set up. Dare I say..a “Happy” accident? -D/a ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-happy-thoughts/576937/13 "2011-04-05T03:47:44Z")
\ Those brave souls dare who posted to that forum. \ We should upgrade them to _ **Super-Charter Members** _, along with 50% cut in the subscription rate. It’s the right thing to do… 🆒