# Linking to SDMB? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 18, 2011, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linking-to-sdmb/585969 "2011-06-18T20:53:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linking-to-sdmb/585969/1 "2011-06-18T20:53:37Z")
I couldn’t find any rules against referring people on other boards to a particular SDMB thread, but I’m asking here just to be sure before doing so. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linking-to-sdmb/585969/2 "2011-06-18T21:48:25Z")
Sure, tell everybody! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linking-to-sdmb/585969/3 "2011-06-18T21:59:57Z")
Please make sure they can spell and use punctuation. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linking-to-sdmb/585969/4 "2011-06-18T22:01:57Z")
Why should they be different from anybody else? I kid, I kid. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linking-to-sdmb/585969/5 "2011-06-18T22:18:47Z")
And aren’t militant nazis. ---
**Author:** ![SoulFrost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@SoulFrost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoulFrost)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linking-to-sdmb/585969/6 "2011-06-18T22:40:44Z")
Grammar nazis are ok, though–we need more prescriptivist / descriptivist debates. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linking-to-sdmb/585969/7 "2011-06-18T22:42:58Z")
Great…now word will get out that we’ve been appointing new (and newer) mods… Everyone will want to be one! -D/a ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linking-to-sdmb/585969/8 "2011-06-19T00:17:52Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > And aren’t militant nazis. Hippie nazis are acceptable, though. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linking-to-sdmb/585969/9 "2011-06-19T00:29:12Z")
Oh, cool! All my friends at the Declawed Cat Owners Against Tipping Forum will be overjoyed! ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linking-to-sdmb/585969/10 "2011-06-19T00:56:59Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > Oh, cool! All my friends at the Declawed Cat Owners Against Tipping Forum will be overjoyed! Do they keep their shoes on in the house? ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linking-to-sdmb/585969/11 "2011-06-19T03:33:49Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Do they keep their shoes on in the house? Er…we kind of have a rule against discussing that topic at the DCOATF, ever since the Great Meltdown and Mass Bannings of '09. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linking-to-sdmb/585969/12 "2011-06-19T07:12:36Z")
Make sure they can pronounce Tijuana. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linking-to-sdmb/585969/13 "2011-06-19T19:12:09Z")
Very funny everyone, but I’d thought at one time at least there were restrictions on linking to the SDMB, something about avoiding pointing spam bots to the board. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linking-to-sdmb/585969/14 "2011-06-19T21:30:33Z")
You may be thinking about our restrictions against inciting board wars, or bringing problems here from other boards. We have no problem with pointing people at interesting content or encouraging newbies to visit, just so you’re not encouraging them to come over and “pile on” in a debate.