# GQ board description is out of date **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 8, 2019, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-board-description-is-out-of-date/838353 "2019-08-08T15:42:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MikeS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MikeS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeS)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-board-description-is-out-of-date/838353/1 "2019-08-08T15:42:04Z")
When you go to the top SDMB page, the description you see for General Questions is: > [@](#): > > Got a **factual question** for the Teeming Millions (and possibly Cecil) to consider? Post it here. Since there is no longer a real possibility of Cecil answering questions originating in the GQ forum :(, I would suggest that the parenthetic comment there be removed. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-board-description-is-out-of-date/838353/2 "2019-08-08T16:08:27Z")
Also, maybe update the number to Teeming Hundreds? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-board-description-is-out-of-date/838353/3 "2019-08-08T16:34:33Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Also, maybe update the number to Teeming Hundreds? Hundreds is less alliterative. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-board-description-is-out-of-date/838353/4 "2019-08-08T16:56:43Z")
There’s also the matter of posters starting threads asking questions that don’t have a **factual** answer. They’re seeking opinions and/or advice. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-board-description-is-out-of-date/838353/5 "2019-08-08T17:01:33Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > There’s also the matter of posters starting threads asking questions that don’t have a **factual** answer. > > They’re seeking opinions and/or advice. Well yeah but that’s already addressed accurately in the board description (and the Rules/FAQs go into sufficient detail if people bother to read them). As long as that’s being reported/enforced properly there’s not much else you can do. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-board-description-is-out-of-date/838353/6 "2019-08-08T17:09:08Z")
As noted in a recent thread, you can _ask_ Cecil a question. Just don’t expect a response. And the sames goes for questions for the teeming. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-board-description-is-out-of-date/838353/7 "2019-08-08T18:03:05Z")
While there is currently no new content available on the site, the door is not entirely closed to possible return at some currently unknown time in future. As long as that possibility remains I think things should stay as they are. Yes, glory days, well, they pass you by, as some philosopher said. But I’m still here and you’re still here and we still have co-conspirators here. Cecil has friends. We can either sit down in the dirt and wail and bitch about how things aren’t or make the best of what is and keep finding meaning and purpose in what we have. I invite all of you to join me in this effort. Bring your friends. Make new friends and drag them over too. Jenny your humble TubaDiva Administrator Optimist. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-board-description-is-out-of-date/838353/8 "2019-08-08T18:59:52Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > > [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > > > Also, maybe update the number to Teeming Hundreds? > > Hundreds is less alliterative. Huddled Hundreds, then? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-board-description-is-out-of-date/838353/9 "2019-08-08T19:02:34Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > Huddled Hundreds, then? Despairing Dozens. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-board-description-is-out-of-date/838353/10 "2019-08-08T19:31:47Z")
> [@](#): > > Quoth **ftg** : > > As noted in a recent thread, you can ask Cecil a question. Just don’t expect a response. I can call Cecil from the vasty deep! ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-board-description-is-out-of-date/838353/11 "2019-08-08T19:50:38Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I can call Cecil from the vasty deep! Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will he come when you do call? ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-board-description-is-out-of-date/838353/12 "2019-08-08T20:25:24Z")
CecilCecilCecil! ::: still waiting ::: Jenny your humble TubaDiva What I tell you three times is true. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-board-description-is-out-of-date/838353/13 "2019-08-08T20:34:57Z")
**Tuba** , you forgot to look in a mirror and spin around while saying it. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-board-description-is-out-of-date/838353/14 "2019-08-08T20:46:05Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I can call Cecil from the vasty deep! Are you Beany? ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-board-description-is-out-of-date/838353/15 "2019-08-08T23:44:14Z")
It keeps the option open for a reboot of the franchise at some point in the future, with someone younger playing the role of Cecil Adams. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-board-description-is-out-of-date/838353/16 "2019-08-09T02:17:03Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > Bring your friends. Make new friends and drag them over too. > > Jenny > your humble TubaDiva > Administrator > Optimist. Have you ever read one of my posts? Fat chance of me being able to do that! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2019, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-board-description-is-out-of-date/838353/17 "2019-08-11T01:19:09Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Well yeah but that’s already addressed accurately in the board description (and the Rules/FAQs go into sufficient detail if people bother to read them). As long as that’s being reported/enforced properly there’s not much else you can do. That’s the problem. It’s not being enforced. Sometimes, the first post, or even the thread title, basically says “I need advice about X”. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2019, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-board-description-is-out-of-date/838353/18 "2019-08-11T01:25:06Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > That’s the problem. It’s not being enforced. Sometimes, the first post, or even the thread title, basically says “I need advice about X”. So a thread is possibly in the wrong forum. If no one reports it or the mods feel it belongs there, what harm is it doing you? ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2019, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-board-description-is-out-of-date/838353/19 "2019-08-11T03:31:58Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > So a thread is possibly in the wrong forum. If no one reports it or the mods feel it belongs there, what harm is it doing you? It’s a message board. It doesn’t harm me. I just think it’s silly and slightly annoying when posters with join dates from 10, 15, almost 20 years ago post in the wrong forum. :shrug: ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2019, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-board-description-is-out-of-date/838353/20 "2019-08-12T17:19:50Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > Cecil has friends. Of course he does. 'Nuff said! Last time I talked to him, he told me that we was working on getting the Fyre festival back off the ground and turning it into a reality. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-board-description-is-out-of-date/838353.md?page=2)