# Forums have been re-organized **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 6, 2008, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forums-have-been-re-organized/462278 "2008-09-06T02:34:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forums-have-been-re-organized/462278/21 "2008-09-06T14:48:20Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > In the Pit they say something about arrows on a blue bar somewhere hiding forums. Sorry I hadn’t noticed that - but I’m rarely very good at (or interested in) exploring options other than what technology initially presents me. Scroll down to the bottom of the home page. It’s below the tradirtional familiar forums. ---
**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forums-have-been-re-organized/462278/22 "2008-09-06T15:40:36Z")
Me think that is an elegant solution 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forums-have-been-re-organized/462278/23 "2008-09-06T15:57:41Z")
Can we have an Election 2008 Side Conversation, take that crap out of the other Fora? Please? Pretty please? ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forums-have-been-re-organized/462278/24 "2008-09-06T16:08:49Z")
> [@Alan\_Smithee](#): > > Agreed on both points. I’ve had problems and a run in with **Tuba** in the past, and I’m no fan of hers, but she’s toned down a lot of the hostility I used to get from her. She’s toned it down for quite some time, in fact. But the complaints about her just grow and grow. Anymore she gets accused of being condescending and angry any time she posts anything. Frankly, I’d have blown a gasket in that pit thread if I’d been in her shoes, but she was polite and reasonable the whole time. I appreciate it. I’ve had a few interactions with **Tuba** and they have all be pleasant. I have never had a problem with her. She has always struck me a person that does not suffer fools gladly. maybe that is why I don’t have a problem with her, I am also like that. But like you say she could post in a MPSIMS thread that it was a sunny day at her house and she would catch 7 kinds of shit for it and that post would spawn a pit thread. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forums-have-been-re-organized/462278/25 "2008-09-06T16:10:03Z")
> [@Rick](#): > > I’ve had a few interactions with **Tuba** and they have all be pleasant. I have never had a problem with her. She has always struck me a person that does not suffer fools gladly. maybe that is why I don’t have a problem with her, I am also like that. But like you say she could post in a MPSIMS thread that it was a sunny day at her house and she would catch 7 kinds of shit for it and that post would spawn a pit thread. I have seen and found the same thing to be true. ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forums-have-been-re-organized/462278/26 "2008-09-06T17:28:10Z")
> [@Rick](#): > > I’ve had a few interactions with **Tuba** and they have all be pleasant. I have never had a problem with her. She has always struck me a person that does not suffer fools gladly. maybe that is why I don’t have a problem with her, I am also like that. But like you say she could post in a MPSIMS thread that it was a sunny day at her house and she would catch 7 kinds of shit for it and that post would spawn a pit thread. I think for the most part, she _is_ pleasant. I could write a more detailed explanation of why I’ve had problems with her in the past, but my whole point is that people should get over it already. I only mentioned the problems to establish that I’m not a personal friend or a sycophant. She’s been thoroughly professional in dealing with recent issues and she clearly does a lot for the boards. I wish Dopers were as quick to cast praise as blame. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forums-have-been-re-organized/462278/27 "2008-09-06T19:23:06Z")
> [@Alan\_Smithee](#): > > I wish Dopers were as quick to cast praise as blame. That thumping sound you all just heard was Alan collapsing from holding his breath. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forums-have-been-re-organized/462278/28 "2008-09-06T20:26:33Z")
> [@Ed\_Zotti](#): > > OK, now that we’ve got that squared away, everybody needs to buy the damn book and write glowing reviews on Amazon. See, now that’s the kinda blatant honestly craven commercialism I can _really_ appreciate! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![leander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bcef8e/32.png) [@leander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leander)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forums-have-been-re-organized/462278/29 "2008-09-07T06:18:18Z")
Good compromise, Ed ---
**Author:** ![JKilez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@JKilez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKilez)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forums-have-been-re-organized/462278/30 "2008-09-08T22:24:01Z")
Great solution. Thanks for making the change. ---
**Author:** ![Aceospades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Aceospades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aceospades)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2008, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forums-have-been-re-organized/462278/31 "2008-09-09T16:02:09Z")
i was not a big fan, not because of the subject (although i find it a strange fit to the boards), but because if how it was implemented. i find this a good compromise. better late then never. lets hope Ed that you stick around the boards a little bit more and next time think before you leep. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forums-have-been-re-organized/462278/32 "2008-09-11T00:36:58Z")
Excellent solution, **Ed**. This new area will perhaps quiet the periodic requests in **ATMB** for this special interest forum or that. In some ways, it may prove to be a more robust area than the “regular” area of Forums, since new ones may come and go with some frequency and in doing so breathe a constant flow of new points of view and forums into the Dope. Cartooniverse [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forums-have-been-re-organized/462278.md?page=1)