# New over-forum proposal **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 10, 2008, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-over-forum-proposal/472085 "2008-11-10T19:33:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **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:** [November 10, 2008, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-over-forum-proposal/472085/1 "2008-11-10T19:33:34Z")
I propose the following group of forums: Golden Oldies, for perpetually reasked questions. Each forum would be dedicated to a particular subject, with links to previous threads. And if anyone still wasn’t satisified with the answers, their thread would be added to the appropriate forum. For example, anyone asking yet again if we really landed astronauts on the moon. ---
**Author:** ![Hawkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/278dde/32.png) [@Hawkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hawkins)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-over-forum-proposal/472085/2 "2008-11-11T01:05:00Z")
We landed astronauts on the moon? ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-over-forum-proposal/472085/3 "2008-11-11T01:38:40Z")
> [@Hawkins](#): > > We landed astronauts on the moon? We would have, if they hadn’t put the rocket on a treadmill. ---
**Author:** ![Hawkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/278dde/32.png) [@Hawkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hawkins)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-over-forum-proposal/472085/4 "2008-11-11T03:25:22Z")
> [@Sapo](#): > > We would have, if they hadn’t put the rocket on a treadmill. Well, that’s a relief. I don’t want a bunch guys I never met to be walking around the on the moon without my permission. I’m not saying I own the moon, I’m just saying they should get my okay first. It would be the polite thing to do. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-over-forum-proposal/472085/5 "2008-11-11T05:55:28Z")
> [@Hawkins](#): > > We landed astronauts on the moon? Once, for 20 minutes. It was a giant leap for Duran Duran. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2008, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-over-forum-proposal/472085/6 "2008-11-11T12:37:55Z")
Back at the ranch: **Lumpy** , I don’t think I understand your proposal. Are you suggesting a forum for questions that get asked a lot, over time, so that when someone comes by to ask (say) about -gry, we could direct them to an existing thread? If that’s what you’re suggesting, then I don’t see why that would be different than the current situation, except you’d be searching the “Golden Oldies” forum rather than “General Questions” to find the dreaded -gry-thread(s)? If I’m understanding this, it wouldn’t apply much beyond GQ and CoCC – I mean, it wouldn’t work for Great Debates if someone asks about the existence of God to respond, “We’ve already discussed this so we won’t discuss any more.” And there’s little redundancy in MPSIMS or IMHO. As a suggestion, if someone would like to compile a list of much-discussed GQ questions (and give the links to the threads where they are discussed to death), we could perhaps post a sticky in GQ with some easily searchable list and links to existing thread(s)? Would that work? Let’s discuss this first before someone does all that work (and it ain’t gonna be a moderator.) ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-over-forum-proposal/472085/7 "2008-11-11T14:16:32Z")
Dex, While we are discussing new forums, how about a best of the SDMB? Quite often an old thread will be mentioned in a current thread, and up will pop the reply “Where is that one, I couldn’t find it?” My suggestion is we take the classics that have been produced here, move them to a best of forum, lock each thread (to prevent bumping on a 6 year old thread) and show it to the world. Right off the top of my head, some of the threads that might qualify are ones like the 9/11 thread, the horror of blimps, and many other that will come to me after coffee. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-over-forum-proposal/472085/8 "2008-11-11T14:18:28Z")
[QUOTE=Somebody else (not me - er - Winston)] I think we should have a forum dedicated to **Winston Smith** , his life, his many great works, his legion of henchpersons, etc. [/QUOTE] I agree. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-over-forum-proposal/472085/9 "2008-11-11T14:28:39Z")
> [@Winston\_Smith](#): > > I agree. Seconded! ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-over-forum-proposal/472085/10 "2008-11-11T14:36:17Z")
We’ve already discussed this! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-over-forum-proposal/472085/11 "2008-11-11T14:56:59Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > We’ve already discussed this! > > 😃 Link? 😉