# Letter to Manhattan **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 18, 2000, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-manhattan/1402 "2000-04-18T00:16:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sdimbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sdimbert/32/20204_2.png) [@sdimbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sdimbert)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2000, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-manhattan/1402/1 "2000-04-18T00:16:00Z")
Yeesh… You’d think I was capable of learning, wouldn’t ya? 🙂 RE the whole GD vs GQ thing… I’m sorry. It makes extra work for you and (more importantly) it makes me look like a moron! All I can say is that I will work on it - I thought that was a GQ post; I never even considered putting it into GD. Sorry! It _is_ confusing for newbies, ya know… ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2000, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-manhattan/1402/2 "2000-04-18T00:37:00Z")
No problemo. Learning is a process, and the lines here are, uh, sometimes less than fully clear. Think of it this way. If the subject is either a) something to which you hope to get a definite answer (like the thread will die when you say “thanks, dude”) or if it is an area of _scientific_ debate (“What’s the latest thinking on the KT extinction event, and what do you think of my take on it?”), it’s GQ. On the other hand, if it’s the kind of thing that you suspect will be debated pretty much forever without resolution (“What is the nature of God?”, “Could Janeway kick Uhura’s butt at Canasta?”), it’s GD. Hope this helps. Ooh, **Gaudere** ’s gonna kick _my_ butt for that last one. Please don’t open a “Janeway v. Uhura at Canasta” thread in GD, all you wiseguys! ---
**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2000, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-manhattan/1402/3 "2000-04-19T05:56:00Z")
Oh, I’d just kick it over to you, manny dear. After all, that’s a question with a definite answer: Janeway. No debate at all. 😃