# Need help choosing appropriate forum

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**Created:** [June 5, 2005, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-choosing-appropriate-forum/306993 "2005-06-05T12:29:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![IAMBIC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@IAMBIC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IAMBIC)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2005, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-choosing-appropriate-forum/306993/1 "2005-06-05T12:29:07Z")

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I’d like to start a thread discussing the Straight Dope tagline: _Fighting Ignorance Since 193 (It’s taking longer than we thought)_.

The discussion would be about whether the tagline is arrogant and encourages arrogance.

Which forum would be most appropriate for this discussion?

Also, I’m sure it’s been discussed before but I can’t search for similar posts. (I’m still evaluating whether I want to become a member.)

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2005, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-choosing-appropriate-forum/306993/2 "2005-06-05T12:35:20Z")

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Um … Great Debates? Sounds like it’s something to really nut out there, with conflicting points of view, and possible citations both pro and con.

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**Author:** ![IAMBIC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@IAMBIC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IAMBIC)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2005, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-choosing-appropriate-forum/306993/3 "2005-06-05T12:57:53Z")

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Thanks.

Any indication that the issue has been discussed before?

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**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2005, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-choosing-appropriate-forum/306993/4 "2005-06-05T13:26:46Z")

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Not so far as I recollect.

I’m not sure where such a topic would go, I’m going to therefore make the arbitrary (and somewhat bizarre) ruling – er, more of a guideline – that you put it in “Comments on Cecil’s Columns.” My rationale is that it’s a comment on Cecil’s tagline, and that’s close enough.

Please indicate, when you start the post, that you had my permission to place it there.

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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2005, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-choosing-appropriate-forum/306993/5 "2005-06-05T13:54:08Z")

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> [@IAMBIC](#):
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> _Fighting Ignorance Since 193 (It’s taking longer than we thought)_.

Cecil is the Ghost of P. Helvius Pertinax?