# Is there a rule about linking to other message boards? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 17, 2005, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-rule-about-linking-to-other-message-boards/304200 "2005-05-17T05:30:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-rule-about-linking-to-other-message-boards/304200/4 "2005-05-17T14:24:25Z")
IANAMod, but it’s been my understanding since shortly after I joined that **context is everything**. If anything is pejorative of another board as a board, it’s against the standard usage here. This goes squared and cubed in spades for anything that might instigate a board war. However, a mere reference to discussion elsewhere that does not put down that board, even if it might be negative against a given member of that board, is not considered wrong. I’ve linked to discussions on a number of boards that helped to clarify or amplify a discussion here, and even pitted a number of people who were taking a stance on another board which I differed with strongly, making clear that I was not complaining about the board itself but some of its members. FWIW, if “the flatbread house” is what I think you mean by it, it had a longstanding good relationship with this board, with staff on either board members at the other. It was itself founded by people objecting to poor moderation of the I-believe-now-defunct “sinister buttock” board, with which this board had a New Years Eve encounter years ago, and seeking to provide an alternative. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-rule-about-linking-to-other-message-boards/304200)._