I love joining forums like this. I enjoy getting to know people and talking about all kinds of things. Right now I’m only here, commercials I hate, and A Simpsons Tapped out forum.
Do any of you know of any other cool forums to join?
Hope this is the right catagory
Why would you want to?
This is not the first I’m hearing of this, and it does not sound awful. Not at all.
You must be speaking for yourself, even if it might sound like a generality.
General Ity, your orders, Sir?
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You can’t be serious. I thought the NSA had shut them down.
Well, they did lose their security clearance. But it might have been because of that Twerking video Giraffe did.
Shirvana Mitra loved that video!
I hear the admin is kind of, um…quirky?
Let’s end the hijack about one board right now and stick to the OP.
I see what you did there. 
Excellent mushroom forum, with sub-fora for both culinary and psychoactive varieties. Several resident mycologists assist with IDs.
I’m a big fan of Something Awful Forums, particularly their subject-specific subforums. The mods are fairly draconian, so don’t be surprised if you get suspended or banned for something incomprehensible, but it keeps the signal to noise level surprisingly high for a forum of that size.
TBH, I can’t get past the pay-to-post. Yes, I know that’s my issue.
Is it worth the $? It seems like it might be.
It’s a one time $10 fee, so it ends up being pretty cheap if you stay low profile and don’t get banned a lot. I don’t post much, though.
Here are largest bulletin boards (July 2008, needs updating) in terms of posts and/or members, some of which might interest others. Straight Dope ranks #44 in size, but still # 1 in my book for a lot of reasons.
There used to be a lot of splinter boards from SDMB, what’s happened to them all? There were Brit, Aussie, some others, I think I’m remembering. (I used to run one for Trek Dopers to give them an outlet when the Dope went Pay-2-Post. I shut it down when P2P ended)
Unaboards is a fun place. Not really an SDMB splinter, as it has unique membership, but a lot of Dopes post there.
Does Fathom still exist? I’m having a hard time searching for it. Must need coffee…
Sorry for my part in the hijack. I can see why it’s not particularly helpful.
I spend time on reddit, too, and I really like the subforums there that I visit. That said, I found that I did have to put in a lot of time at the beginning reading enough to help me separate signal from noise. Once I found the places I was comfortable there, I stick with those 90% of the time and maybe look around the other 10%.