The other day (don’t remember which) I clicked on the Message Boards link and at the bottom of the list of forums, I saw one that said “Moderate”. I clicked on it and there only a couple of threads, one of which concerned a topic that I don’t think we’ll ever see here (and with good reason).
Was there some sort of security failure? Am I on something?
Enlighten me.
Someone at the HouDope Fest this past weekend mentioned seeing the same thing. I’d guess it’s a normally invisible-to-users forum that mods/admins use to communicate that might have accidentally got switched “on” during some maintenance. Things like that have happened before.
OK, raise your hand if you immediately went back to the main SDMB index page after you read this OP.
C’mon now, that includes you folks in the back row!
Of course not. You must have been hallucinating.
The real “Moderate” forum includes DOZENS of threads, several of which are devoted to us laughing at how you look in those pants.
Hey! My mom gave me those pants. MY MOTHER IS A SAINT!!!
Hey, I saw it too! I thought it was a new forum for controversial topics. There were only three threads in there. When I went back to the main page it was gone. Invisible forum, cool!
So in this forum none of the GQ mods close duplicate threads? A likely story.
If it was there when I was on the Boards, I wouldn’t have noticed it. I didn’t notice when they made IMHO (until my brother, Monster104, said “Did you see the new forum?”), and I didn’t notice Cafe Society (again, until my brother said “Did you see the new forum?”). And, given my past instances of stupidity-induced inattentiveness, I wouldn’t notice a forum called “Hot Naked Babes That Want To Sleep With SPOOFE” (HNBTWTSWS).
Speculation:
Maybe it’s something that automatically detects certain keywords in a post, such as:
‘Illegal’
‘Drugs’
‘Moderator’
and collects the threads somewhere that’s easy to find so the mods can give them immediate attention?
All of you who have admitted seeing that are fools ! They will come for you now, oh yes they will, and then you will be sor…
You can bridge the gap into the nether world? See through the barrier that stands between us and the dimension known as “Moderator”?
You got the power, boy! You got the power! Hallelujiah!
You must now be taken to a secret lab and be dissected to give us insight as to where this ability comes from. Sorry, but it’s all in the name of science.
I see…dead forums!