# Other message boards like this? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 5, 2003, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-message-boards-like-this/217078 "2003-12-05T02:45:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![E.T.Bass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9fc29f/32.png) [@E.T.Bass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.T.Bass)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-message-boards-like-this/217078/1 "2003-12-05T02:45:16Z")
Could anyone tell me of more message boards like this one? I enjoy the forum. Any message boards would be interesting to me. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-message-boards-like-this/217078/2 "2003-12-05T05:36:18Z")
You mean boards powered by vBulletin, or any forum software? Quite a few Dopers have bulletin boards. SDMB spinoffs founded by other Dopers include ([UnaBoard](http://unaboard.coalgoddess.net), [Fabulous Forums of Fathom](http://fff.fathom.org/)), and the Australia/New Zealand specific [G’Dope](http://pub31.ezboard.com/bgdope) in Australia. On my Web site, there’s the [Cyburbia Forums](http://www.cyburbia.org/forums), a bulletin board that caters to urban planners and others interested in cities and the built environment. It’s **NOT** a SDMB spinoff, but it uses the same software (vBulletin) on the back end. I’m sure there’s other subject-specific Doper-managed bulletin boards out there. For more vBulletin-based sites, check out signature lines in messages at [http://www.vbulletin.com](http://www.vbulletin.com), or Google for the names of popular forum scripts; vBulletin, UBB, Ikonboard, phpbb, and openbb for starters. Mods … IMHO? ---
**Author:** ![RadioOrange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a9adbd/32.png) [@RadioOrange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadioOrange)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-message-boards-like-this/217078/3 "2003-12-05T05:55:03Z")
I found this site from a link on [Cz28.com](http://Cz28.com) (or maybe it was [ls1.com](http://ls1.com)…hmm). They have Lounge boards where people ask questions, though we tend to get more silly answers 😉 😃 .-but not always. Both of their layouts are similiar to this one as well. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-message-boards-like-this/217078/4 "2003-12-05T06:06:20Z")
Welcome to the SDMB, **E.T. Bass**. The GQ forum is for factual questions. This question is a matter of opinion, so I’ll move this thread to the IMHO forum. bibliopahge moderator GQ ---
**Author:** ![E.T.Bass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9fc29f/32.png) [@E.T.Bass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.T.Bass)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-message-boards-like-this/217078/5 "2003-12-05T10:38:26Z")
It is not a matter of opinion, it is a question, why did you feel the need to move it? ---
**Author:** ![wendyrules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/85e7bf/32.png) [@wendyrules](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wendyrules)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-message-boards-like-this/217078/6 "2003-12-05T11:02:19Z")
… Just to post a post… I must say that THIS place is far and better than anywhere else I’ve ever been involved with! (Admittedly, I’ve only discovered the internet over the last 2 years) but oh! How much I’ve grown and how much I’ve learnt to communicate online!!) … and now once yet again, I feel I’m being boring, silly and totally inane… Anyway, as long as you people are quite happy to accommodate me and at least give me some kind of credence! I humbly thank you all! :o ---
**Author:** ![milk\_milk\_lemonade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecccb3/32.png) [@milk\_milk\_lemonade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milk_milk_lemonade)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-message-boards-like-this/217078/7 "2003-12-05T11:28:31Z")
Here is a great place for some factual answers, and other interesting stuff: [http://host.randi.org/vbulletin/](http://host.randi.org/vbulletin/) ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-message-boards-like-this/217078/8 "2003-12-05T16:59:48Z")
E.T., IMHO is also the forum we use for polling, so this is the right spot for your thread. You are asking for many people to supply their own personal answers to the same question, not THE one and only answer. GQ is for factual questions more like “What’s the heaviest substance possible?” ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-message-boards-like-this/217078/9 "2003-12-05T18:20:21Z")
Chiming in again. Excepting Usenet, the busiest bulletin boards I’ve come across all deal with computer gaming and related modding (case lighting and modifications, video card overclocking, and the like), auto enthusiasm/modding (mainly sports cars and ricers), anime, and UK soccer. There’s literally hundreds of _extremely_ busy computer gaming and anime sites; the “build it, and they will come” attitude among Webmasters is true. Wanna’ talk about failing dot-coms? Fucked Company. Eyeglasses? Optiboard. Skyline photography? Skyscraper Page. Late model Volkswagen Passats? Club B5. The SDMB really isn’t a general interest bulletin board in the purest sense, but I think it’s the largest English language bulletin board of its kind. Here’s a thread on [vBulletin.com](http://vBulletin.com) with many 1,000,000+ vBulletin sites. [http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=47430](http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=47430) ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-message-boards-like-this/217078/10 "2003-12-05T22:48:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by E.T. Bass \* > \*\*It is not a matter of opinion, it is a question, why did you feel the need to move it? \*\* Because ‘good’ and ‘best’ and even ‘like this one’ in relation to message boards are subjective terms; all you can get is opinion. As opposed to questions like “What is the airspeed of a swallow”, which has a definite factual answer. Don’t take the moving of this thread as a chastisement; **bibliophage** is doing you a favour by moving your thread to a forum where it will get a better range of responses.