# It's March. Can we kill the Halloween forum? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 15, 2012, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-can-we-kill-the-halloween-forum/615831 "2012-03-15T05:10:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-can-we-kill-the-halloween-forum/615831/61 "2012-03-19T15:32:15Z")
> [@JBDivmstr](#): > > _ **Wow!** _ > > I, for one, would have never guessed that this would become so contentious. > (Is that the right word?) I don’t believe that for a minute. You knew exactly how contentious it would be. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-can-we-kill-the-halloween-forum/615831/62 "2012-03-19T15:57:55Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > I know, Easter is coming up. Why don’t we have an Easter Forum? Then we can post all the threads on bunnies and egg hunts and baskets and hats and whatnot in one place. And after Easter is over, we can lock it down, too, and then stuff it at the top of MPSIMS. And then maybe do a forum on Memorial Day. Follow up with a forum on Columbus Day. Next thing you know, the first two pages of MPSIMS will be dead forums that are locked to new posts. Because at heart we are all devil worshipers. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-can-we-kill-the-halloween-forum/615831/63 "2012-03-19T19:48:07Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Because at heart we are all devil worshipers. > [@](#): > > You know if it weren’t for the devil, God would’ve probably gone insane and blown his brains out from boredom. -Peter Griffin ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-can-we-kill-the-halloween-forum/615831/64 "2012-03-20T03:55:57Z")
I miss the Halloween forum. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-can-we-kill-the-halloween-forum/615831/65 "2012-03-20T04:03:57Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Take the lesson - no silly special forums. They just become a nuisance. Along these same lines, I no longer buy milk as all it does is go bad and stink up my fridge. No silly cartons of milk. They just become a nuisance. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-can-we-kill-the-halloween-forum/615831/66 "2012-03-20T04:10:24Z")
Yeah, I like my Halloween jack-o-lantern, but by around February or so when its rotting carcass is causing mildewy pumpkin goo to slither all over my front porch, it’s time to shovel the whole mess off to the compost heap. ---
**Author:** ![JBDivmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-can-we-kill-the-halloween-forum/615831/67 "2012-03-20T07:57:13Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Because at heart we are all devil worshipers. > [@Darth\_Panda](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > You know if it weren’t for the devil, God would’ve probably gone insane and blown his brains out from boredom. > > > > -Peter Griffin _ **A+** _ Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha 😃 Who in the world is Winnie Cooper? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-can-we-kill-the-halloween-forum/615831/68 "2012-03-20T08:11:22Z")
> [@JBDivmstr](#): > > Who in the world is Winnie Cooper? 😕 She’s the cute little dark haired girl Kevin Arnold likes in _The Wonder Years_. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-can-we-kill-the-halloween-forum/615831/69 "2012-03-20T14:35:13Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > I miss the Halloween forum. ☹ I’d like to miss it, but it won’t leave. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-can-we-kill-the-halloween-forum/615831/70 "2012-03-20T15:19:08Z")
Psst, it did. There’s no halloween forum anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-can-we-kill-the-halloween-forum/615831/71 "2012-03-20T18:04:29Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Along these same lines, I no longer buy milk as all it does is go bad and stink up my fridge. No silly cartons of milk. They just become a nuisance. I assume you’re just being facetious, but I will note that I have done exactly that. I don’t drink milk. I used to eat cereal in milk for breakfast, but not always, and it was always a challenge to buy the right amount of milk. It’s cheaper by the ounce in bulk, but if you don’t use it up fast enough, it goes bad and stinks and is not good even in a bowl of sugar with lumps (i.e. cereal). So I solved that problem - I stopped eating cereal in milk. Now I have very little reason to buy milk. Once in a blue moon I’ll contemplate cooking something, and have to acquire milk for that, but I will have to acquire other ingredients as well, so that’s not a challenge. And in the interim I don’t have to deal with stinky milk. And to further destroy your analogy, if milk goes bad, you can throw it out. You don’t have to leave it in MPSIMS stinking up the place. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-can-we-kill-the-halloween-forum/615831/72 "2012-03-20T19:06:34Z")
It’s exactly the same. Throwing out milk is equivalent to deleting forums. Just as it’s silly to leave a spoiled carton of milk in the fridge for months, it’s silly to leave a seasonal forum up year round. You solve the milk problem by throwing it away when it’s no longer drinkable, you solve the forum problem by deleting it when it’s no longer seasonal. And everything’s cheaper in bulk so I don’t really understand why you have a hangup only about milk. Do you also not buy shampoo because per ounce it’s cheaper to get the 24 oz container than the 3 oz travel size? ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-can-we-kill-the-halloween-forum/615831/73 "2012-03-20T19:18:29Z")
> [@ntucker](#): > > I can’t believe that worked. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-can-we-kill-the-halloween-forum/615831/74 "2012-03-20T20:57:06Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Psst, it did. There’s no halloween forum anymore. Ha! I might actually wait awhile before I start missing it… ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2012, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-can-we-kill-the-halloween-forum/615831/75 "2012-03-21T02:53:53Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > Yeah, I like my Halloween jack-o-lantern, but by around February or so when its rotting carcass is causing mildewy pumpkin goo to slither all over my front porch, it’s time to shovel the whole mess off to the compost heap. Just like Granddad after the funeral. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2012, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-can-we-kill-the-halloween-forum/615831/76 "2012-03-21T04:47:26Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Just like Granddad after the funeral. Yeah, but if you could skip the whole " rotting carcass is causing mildewy pumpkin goo to slither all over my front porch" that’d be just super. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2012, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-can-we-kill-the-halloween-forum/615831/77 "2012-03-21T05:58:17Z")
Somewhere out there, perhaps in Kansas or maybe Nebraska, members of a local farming message board awoke to something … different. The forums on farm equipment, deals, weather, and off-topic discussions seemed the same. The forum on wheat fields was normal; same with the forum on soybean crops. But there was something new in the cornfield forum, something that wasn’t there the moment before they blinked their eyes or refreshed their caches. The administrators were at a loss as to how it got there. It was as if someone–or some group–just _wished_ it there. **Boo!** ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2012, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-can-we-kill-the-halloween-forum/615831/78 "2012-03-21T12:31:14Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > And yet we have a 57 post thread whining about just _one_ special forum. No we don’t. What we have is a thread where some are complaining about leaving a special thread tacked to the front page after we can no longer post to it. If it had been transfered to MPSIMS and allowed to drop due to inactivity , this thread would not have been started. Your post mischaracterizes this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2012, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-can-we-kill-the-halloween-forum/615831/79 "2012-03-21T14:36:56Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > And everything’s cheaper in bulk so I don’t really understand why you have a hangup only about milk. Do you also not buy shampoo because per ounce it’s cheaper to get the 24 oz container than the 3 oz travel size? Shampoo doesn’t go bad. It lasts forever. I have a bottle that, for various reasons, has lasted over 10 years and is still fine. Basically, the value of milk to me is lower than the hassle it causes. A half-gallon container goes bad before I use it all, and I’d be buying pints every couple days. I’d rather not go to the grocery store every day of the week if I can help it. Obviously other people have different results. > [@PlainJain](#): > > No we don’t. What we have is a thread where some are complaining about leaving a special thread tacked to the front page after we can no longer post to it. If it had been transfered to MPSIMS and allowed to drop due to inactivity , this thread would not have been started. > Your post mischaracterizes this thread. It’s a forum, not a thread, but you are correct, having it hang out at the top of the forum rather than dropping was the issue. But I don’t know how it was resolved. Did they delete Boo! and put all the threads back into MPSIMS? Or did they unsticky the forum? I don’t know how you unsticky a forum. I don’t know how subforums work. I’m under the impression that the subforums by operation of the forum software get listed at the top of their main forum, so it’s not a simple act to unsticky them and let them fall. They are a separate item list than threads. I don’t think my post mischaracterized this thread. It was complaint about Boo! forum being maintained at the top of MPSIMS, while closed to new posts and out of season. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-can-we-kill-the-halloween-forum/615831.md?page=3)