# How many Message boards did you lurk or try **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-message-boards-did-you-lurk-or-try/364421 **Category:** In My Humble Opinion **Created:** [July 14, 2006, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-message-boards-did-you-lurk-or-try/364421 "2006-07-14T02:50:32Z") **Posts on this page:** 20 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![DrunkOnion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ab097/32.png) [@DrunkOnion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrunkOnion) #### Post date: [July 14, 2006, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-message-boards-did-you-lurk-or-try/364421/1 "2006-07-14T02:50:32Z")
Before settling on this one.? I think I lurked at least 30 or more Newsgroups and or message boards. šŸ˜ƒ Just my way of juming in to the pond šŸ˜ƒ ---
### Author: ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope) #### Post date: [July 14, 2006, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-message-boards-did-you-lurk-or-try/364421/2 "2006-07-14T02:53:31Z")
None. This was the first one Iā€™d ever seen. I figured they were all like this; when I got around to checking out one or two others, I was _horrified_. ---
### Author: ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404) #### Post date: [July 14, 2006, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-message-boards-did-you-lurk-or-try/364421/3 "2006-07-14T06:41:02Z")
Well, this is the only message board of itā€™s type that I have even been to. I liked what I saw and have never strayed. I do, however, post to several other interest-specific message boards. ---
### Author: ![DrunkOnion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ab097/32.png) [@DrunkOnion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrunkOnion) #### Post date: [July 14, 2006, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-message-boards-did-you-lurk-or-try/364421/4 "2006-07-14T12:44:04Z")
> [@DrunkOnion](#): > > Before settling on this one.? I think I lurked at least 30 or more Newsgroups and or message boards. > > šŸ˜ƒ Just my way of juming in to the pond šŸ˜ƒ šŸ˜• chumming or jumping. I guess they both work šŸ˜ƒ ---
### Author: ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy) #### Post date: [July 14, 2006, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-message-boards-did-you-lurk-or-try/364421/5 "2006-07-14T13:20:22Z")
I got spoiled, because this is one of the first ones I really read regularly. Like **Jackelope** , Iā€™m pretty much horrified when I go to most other boards. ---
### Author: ![Webner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/0ea827/32.png) [@Webner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Webner) #### Post date: [July 14, 2006, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-message-boards-did-you-lurk-or-try/364421/6 "2006-07-14T18:09:45Z")
I lurked at another message board before finding this one. It was (and is) a pretty immature, but funny, board visited mostly by teenagers. Its fairly famous (one of the twenty most visited forums on the net) and probably known to many of you. I tried posting there but didnā€™t quite fit in. I still visit it occasionally, but spend much more time at the Dope. ---
### Author: ![YaWanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/bbce88/32.png) [@YaWanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YaWanna) #### Post date: [July 14, 2006, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-message-boards-did-you-lurk-or-try/364421/7 "2006-07-14T18:26:19Z")
Just tgree others. I really liked the first one and made some nice friends, but a few people were assholes, and the quality did deteriorate after a while. Then an outside event made it necessary for me to leave it. I have the option to go back someday, though, I think. Another was very specific to my mental-health issue, and it just wasnā€™t able to hold my interest for very long. The third seemed like it had promise, but was in fact in the process of dying due to lack of participation when it got hacked and apparently never recovered. This one, I think, is a keeper. ---
### Author: ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump) #### Post date: [July 14, 2006, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-message-boards-did-you-lurk-or-try/364421/8 "2006-07-14T18:31:12Z")
I hang out on about 10 different boards. Some of them are martial arts related, but the rest are general discussion. However, none of them have the depths that SDMB does. And that includes depravity, as well. šŸ˜ƒ ---
### Author: ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika) #### Post date: [July 14, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-message-boards-did-you-lurk-or-try/364421/9 "2006-07-14T18:33:03Z")
In my day,: I started on the AOL chatrooms. I was 17. It was nice. Then over the years, Iā€™ve been at: a Lot of the [About.com](http://About.com) forums The Hinduism forum The Atheistā€™s forum The American Atheistā€™s forum The Adult Adoptee forum A lot of these as you see are theme-oriented. Now I donā€™t feel the need for those as much. So I havenā€™t been to any of those in years. I am currently part of two other boards, the Gor boards, where I am almost completely a lurker, and Skipā€™s Magic Board. I am pretty fairly a lurker there too, but I have more than 3 posts, which is what I have on the Gor boards! But still these days I must confess I only go there when these boards are down. Iā€™m bad, I know. I also post somewhat on the Literotica forums. Anyway, welcome, **DrunkOnion**! ---
### Author: ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady) #### Post date: [July 14, 2006, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-message-boards-did-you-lurk-or-try/364421/10 "2006-07-14T18:40:48Z")
I post regularly on a board relating to my local hockey team, and occasionally on another hockey related board. Otherwise, the Dope is it! Just like with my hubby - once youā€™ve found the right one, thereā€™s no need to keep looking! šŸ™‚ ---
### Author: ![Burrido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Burrido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burrido) #### Post date: [July 14, 2006, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-message-boards-did-you-lurk-or-try/364421/11 "2006-07-14T18:49:54Z")
3-5 before I found this one. Iā€™m a member of 5 others and lurk on 2. ---
### Author: ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster) #### Post date: [July 14, 2006, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-message-boards-did-you-lurk-or-try/364421/12 "2006-07-14T18:59:48Z")
I own one small board, moderate a larger one, and have been fairly well known on both the SOE EQ2 forums and the COX forums. ---
### Author: ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn) #### Post date: [July 15, 2006, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-message-boards-did-you-lurk-or-try/364421/13 "2006-07-15T01:22:37Z")
This is the first message board I ever joined. I was on a useless information quest, and happened across the SDMB. I would hate a board that went in for a lot or ROLFMAO and so on, so I am staying here. šŸ™‚ ---
### Author: ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash) #### Post date: [July 15, 2006, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-message-boards-did-you-lurk-or-try/364421/14 "2006-07-15T09:47:47Z")
This was my first. It was love at first site. ---
### Author: ![DrunkOnion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ab097/32.png) [@DrunkOnion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrunkOnion) #### Post date: [July 15, 2006, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-message-boards-did-you-lurk-or-try/364421/15 "2006-07-15T14:03:57Z")
> [@Celyn](#): > > This is the first message board I ever joined. I was on a useless information quest, and happened across the SDMB. I would hate a board that went in for a lot or ROLFMAO and so on, so I am staying here. šŸ™‚ I got yaā€¦I like the spice here and the rules are just strict enought to keep the heat at a roast but not burn level. ---
### Author: ![bittersweet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@bittersweet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bittersweet) #### Post date: [July 15, 2006, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-message-boards-did-you-lurk-or-try/364421/16 "2006-07-15T14:47:16Z")
> [@jackelope](#): > > None. This was the first one Iā€™d ever seen. I figured they were all like this; when I got around to checking out one or two others, I was _horrified_. Iā€™ve seen a few :eek: ā€¦needless to say, this the only one that I have an actual membership to. ---
### Author: ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent) #### Post date: [July 15, 2006, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-message-boards-did-you-lurk-or-try/364421/17 "2006-07-15T16:13:42Z")
Back in my Appraisal days, I was a Real Estate appraiser I was a member of a GREAT Appraisers boardā€¦I have been member of several VW and VW Passat boardsā€¦and Occasionally i place a smart ass comment at [Fark.com](http://Fark.com). FTR i have lurked here for a long time before bucking up the $$ ThisSpaceForRent ---
### Author: ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji) #### Post date: [July 15, 2006, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-message-boards-did-you-lurk-or-try/364421/18 "2006-07-15T16:55:30Z")
I hung out at snopes for a while, but found many of the members to be rather agressive. That was many years ago, so maybe it has improved. ---
### Author: ![rinni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rinni) #### Post date: [July 15, 2006, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-message-boards-did-you-lurk-or-try/364421/19 "2006-07-15T18:51:06Z")
I started off on Pokemon boards. Four of them. And then that ā€œIf you set yourself on fire, do not runā€ thing happened, and I was linked to the board that hosted that (might have been Internet Infidels?), and while lurking there I found the link here. I still post (occasionally and unpredictably) on two of the Pokemon boards, and then thereā€™s this one, and a local forum and a soap/bath-related forum. From most to least used, my message boards rank like this: Soap forum Here Local forum Two Pokemon boards More than you wanted to know, I guess, but what the heck! ---
### Author: ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72) #### Post date: [July 16, 2006, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-message-boards-did-you-lurk-or-try/364421/20 "2006-07-16T01:15:19Z")
On a daily or at least once a week: SDMB, of course. A free legal advice forum. A couple of NASCAR forums. 4 or 5 of the Craigslist discussion forums. A few times or fewer a month: A couple geneology forums. (A cousin I have never met and I keep in touch at one) A NASCAR diecast forum. And when Iā€™m bored, I do some drive by postings at a couple of forums that I disagree with most of the members. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-message-boards-did-you-lurk-or-try/364421.md?page=2)