# I suggest closing this message board for a few weeks.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suggest-closing-this-message-board-for-a-few-weeks/453648
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [June 21, 2008, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suggest-closing-this-message-board-for-a-few-weeks/453648 "2008-06-21T01:21:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
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### Author:  [@Gozu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2008, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suggest-closing-this-message-board-for-a-few-weeks/453648/1 "2008-06-21T01:21:32Z")
I’ve grown concerned over the time some of my fellow dopers spend reading (or posting) on this board. According to my math, some do little else in their lives (and that’s including biological needs!) which implies they have an unhealthy addiction to the the SDMB.
Knowing that **You** , the dedicated staff members, are generally immune to that obsession and that you strongly support healthy living, I modestly suggest shutting down the board for a few weeks (4-6?) to force the addicts to face their condition and help them by removing access to the drug.
We can’t blame this on society any longer, we must take responsibility and do something drastic and possibly unpopular.
All in favor?
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### Author:  [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2008, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suggest-closing-this-message-board-for-a-few-weeks/453648/2 "2008-06-21T01:25:57Z")
If you were so worried you could have just emailed me.
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### Author:  [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2008, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suggest-closing-this-message-board-for-a-few-weeks/453648/3 "2008-06-21T01:52:16Z")
I have a better idea. Why don’t we give people the first few weeks for free. We can make them pay for it once they’re hooked.
As for me, I don’t have a problem. I can log off any time. Really.
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### Author:  [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2008, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suggest-closing-this-message-board-for-a-few-weeks/453648/4 "2008-06-21T01:55:10Z")
This is my 12-step program for sanity
1. Read the SDMB
2. Read the SDMB
3. Read the SDMB
4. Read the SDMB
5. Read the SDMB
6. Read the SDMB
7. Read the SDMB
8. Read the SDMB
9. Read the SDMB
10. a. Pee
11. Read the SDMB
12. Read the SDMB
13. Read the SDMB
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### Author:  [@MadPansy64](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPansy64)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2008, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suggest-closing-this-message-board-for-a-few-weeks/453648/5 "2008-06-21T01:56:34Z")
You just hush your mouth! Crazy talk like that, you should be ashamed of yourself!
Hmmph.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2008, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suggest-closing-this-message-board-for-a-few-weeks/453648/6 "2008-06-21T02:30:16Z")
[QUOTE=Gozu]
I’ve grown concerned over the time some of my fellow dopers spend reading (or posting) on this board. According to my math, some do little else in their lives (and that’s including biological needs!) which implies they have an unhealthy addiction to the the SDMB.
Knowing that **You** , the dedicated staff members, are generally immune to that obsession and that you strongly support healthy living, I modestly suggest shutting down the board for a few weeks (4-6?) to force the addicts to face their condition and help them by removing access to the drug.
We can’t blame this on society any longer, we must take responsibility and do something drastic and possibly unpopular.
All in favor?
[/QUOTE]
Project much?
😃
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### Author:  [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2008, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suggest-closing-this-message-board-for-a-few-weeks/453648/7 "2008-06-21T02:36:01Z")
I do not have a problem with the SDMB. I can quit any time I want. I can do other things, like empty the dishwasher, walk the dog, pay the bills, fold the laundry…
Just as soon as I cruise through all 13 pages of “New Posts”.
… and whoops! It’s bedtime.
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### Author:  [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2008, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suggest-closing-this-message-board-for-a-few-weeks/453648/8 "2008-06-21T04:43:04Z")
You could pay us all $500 to stop posting for two years.
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### Author:  [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2008, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suggest-closing-this-message-board-for-a-few-weeks/453648/9 "2008-06-21T06:40:09Z")
Let’s see, at 50,000+ members, each of us would get slightly less than a penny.
Naaa, not worth it.
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### Author:  [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2008, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suggest-closing-this-message-board-for-a-few-weeks/453648/10 "2008-06-21T07:09:07Z")
I predict that you will run for political office eventually.
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### Author:  [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2008, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suggest-closing-this-message-board-for-a-few-weeks/453648/11 "2008-06-21T10:56:49Z")
[QUOTE=Gozu]
I modestly suggest shutting down the board for a few weeks (4-6?) to force the addicts to face their condition and help them by removing access to the drug.
[/QUOTE]
Based upon my interpretation of _French Connection II_ it’s not a good idea to impose cold turkey on these poor suckers.
During the 4-6 weeks this board is withdrawn from circulation you will need to provide an SDMB substitute to ease their passage from a glorious oblivion. May I suggest a Synthetic Dope Message Board (Synthetic DMB) is set up for this purpose. It must demonstrate a degree of cross-tolerance with the Straight DMB so that addicts are kept mentally stable for a few weeks whilst being denied the ‘rush’ supplied by the original product.
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### Author:  [@essell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/essell)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2008, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suggest-closing-this-message-board-for-a-few-weeks/453648/12 "2008-06-21T11:48:29Z")
[QUOTE=Gozu]
I’ve grown concerned over the time some of my fellow dopers spend reading (or posting) on this board. According to my math, some do little else in their lives (and that’s including biological needs!) which implies they have an unhealthy addiction to the the SDMB.
[/QUOTE]
I think you’ve jumped to the “unhealthy” conclusion much too quickly.
I’m addicted to me Wife & me oxygen but I wouldn’t call it unhealthy.
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2008, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suggest-closing-this-message-board-for-a-few-weeks/453648/13 "2008-06-21T15:24:50Z")
How do you determine how much time we spend here? If I post at 8:30, 10:45, 2:15 & 4:30, that hardley means I’ve spent all eight hours here.
I love how I can spend 15-20 minutes here for a “work break.”
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### Author:  [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2008, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suggest-closing-this-message-board-for-a-few-weeks/453648/14 "2008-06-21T15:24:51Z")
[QUOTE=Chez Guevara]
it’s not a good idea to impose cold turkey on these poor suckers.
May I suggest a Synthetic Dope Message Board (Synthetic DMB).
[/QUOTE]
or start a new board where the M in SDMB stands for " methadone"
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### Author:  [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2008, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suggest-closing-this-message-board-for-a-few-weeks/453648/15 "2008-06-21T16:20:20Z")
[QUOTE=Savannah]
… and whoops! It’s bedtime.
[/QUOTE]
It’s not bedtime until the board crashes. That’s my motto.
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### Author:  [@PuddingCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PuddingCat)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2008, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suggest-closing-this-message-board-for-a-few-weeks/453648/16 "2008-06-21T18:08:22Z")
[QUOTE=Frank]
It’s not bedtime until the board crashes.
[/QUOTE]
Do the very short days not cause you problems then?
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2008, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suggest-closing-this-message-board-for-a-few-weeks/453648/17 "2008-06-21T18:29:24Z")
You can have my SDMB when you pry it from my cold dead browser.
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2008, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suggest-closing-this-message-board-for-a-few-weeks/453648/18 "2008-06-22T00:14:58Z")
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### Author:  [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2008, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suggest-closing-this-message-board-for-a-few-weeks/453648/19 "2008-06-22T20:12:59Z")
A sign seen two days after the SDMB closes down: “Will suck dick for intelligent conversation.”