# Rules you'd make if you were king **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 15, 2014, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-youd-make-if-you-were-king/693220 "2014-07-15T21:18:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-youd-make-if-you-were-king/693220/21 "2014-07-17T19:36:56Z")
I was going to suggest Mundane and Not So Mundane Pointless Shit I Must Share, but SIMS is much more concise and the acronym reads much better. I get the hesitance to make too many sub-forums, but sports seems like a natural split. There are really three natural cleavages: sports, gaming, and games we play. I’d be interested in a poll of which ones people are interested in (i.e. how many people go to the Game Room for all three, just sports, etc.). ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-youd-make-if-you-were-king/693220/22 "2014-07-22T15:17:19Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > I’d maybe consider adding a sub-forum to Great Debates for breaking news stories. It just feels vaguely wrong to be discussing the latest plane crash/tsunami/other incident of the day in MPSIMS… Or just an entirely separate forum. We could call it “Stuff Happened Interestingly Today” or possibly “Stuff Happened In The…” ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-youd-make-if-you-were-king/693220/23 "2014-07-22T15:41:24Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Or just an entirely separate forum. We could call it “Stuff Happened Interestingly Today” or possibly “Stuff Happened In The…” If you limit it to 24 hours from the time of the OP post time you could call it Short Attention Span Theatre. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-youd-make-if-you-were-king/693220/24 "2014-07-22T15:45:55Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > If you limit it to 24 hours from the time of the OP post time you could call it Short Attention Span Theatre. Do you have a cite that 24 hours would constitute a short attention span? ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-youd-make-if-you-were-king/693220/25 "2014-07-22T16:08:31Z")
> [@Aquadementia](#): > > If I were king the rule of the land would be: > > **No Pants? Can’t Dance? No Chance!** **Implants. Cash Advance. Good chance.** ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-youd-make-if-you-were-king/693220/26 "2014-07-22T16:25:13Z")
Rule #1 - This board does not promise fairness or equity; so get over it. That should make ATMB the least used forum here. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-youd-make-if-you-were-king/693220/27 "2014-07-22T17:38:44Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Or just an entirely separate forum. We could call it “Stuff Happened Interestingly Today” or\*\* possibly “Stuff Happened In The…”\*\* Stuff Happening In Time ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-youd-make-if-you-were-king/693220/28 "2014-07-22T17:43:08Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > Rule #1 - This board does not promise fairness or equity; so get over it. > > That should make ATMB the least used forum here. Hear hear. Rule 1a: If you have a personality problem with another poster or just a personality problem overall, take it to the pit rather than crying to the mods about your hurt feelings and how other posters deserve warnings rather than mod notes or _:😭:_ no moderator action _at all!!!_ Rule 1b: Yeah, sometimes repeated pittings don’t work. Fair enough. But there are occasions where cowards and weasels take their pittings to ATMB, before raising the issue in the pit even once, never mind a reasonable couple of times. > [@Giraffe](#): > > Banned posters deserve ridicule and abuse. Personally, I have a carve out for posters who appear to suffer from certain schizo disorders (non-medical term intentional as diagnosis over the web is impossible) . I’m frankly unsure what to do about them, but a pile-on seems icky. Just a qualification. Also there’s the writing about someone when they can’t easily respond issue, but that’s a separate matter, apparently more contentious. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-youd-make-if-you-were-king/693220/29 "2014-07-22T19:16:24Z")
If I were king, I would stop the zombie attacks immediately by requiring that the SDMB implement the oh-so-simple script that automatically locks threads where no one has posted to the thread in the last six months. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-youd-make-if-you-were-king/693220/30 "2014-07-22T19:24:09Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > If I were king, I would stop the zombie attacks immediately by requiring that the SDMB implement the oh-so-simple script that automatically locks threads where no one has posted to the thread in the last six months. I could go along with this, and there is no reason why the old locked thread couldn’t be linked to if need be. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-youd-make-if-you-were-king/693220/31 "2014-07-22T19:33:58Z")
No betting. No banning, just box them instead. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-youd-make-if-you-were-king/693220/32 "2014-07-22T19:38:14Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > No betting. > > No banning, just box them instead. I would insist on airholes, at least. ---
**Author:** ![Bozuit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/edb3f5/32.png) [@Bozuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bozuit)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-youd-make-if-you-were-king/693220/33 "2014-07-22T19:41:59Z")
Annoying non-standard initialisms that appear to have been made up on the spot would be banned, with warnings issued if a court determines the initialism was probably used as jargon deliberately as some kind of statement about the poster. Also, no signatures. It makes people look as if they consider every post they write an important and noteworthy event. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-youd-make-if-you-were-king/693220/34 "2014-07-22T19:48:28Z")
> [@Bozuit](#): > > Annoying non-standard initialisms that appear to have been made up on the spot would be banned, with warnings issued if a court determines the initialism was probably used as jargon deliberately as some kind of statement about the poster. Not sure what you mean be this. Could you give a (fictional) example? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-youd-make-if-you-were-king/693220/35 "2014-07-22T19:54:19Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > If I were king, I would stop the zombie attacks immediately by requiring that the SDMB implement the oh-so-simple script that automatically locks threads where no one has posted to the thread in the last six months. I like zombies. It’s almost the only way I remember what I thought about some things years and years ago. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-youd-make-if-you-were-king/693220/36 "2014-07-22T19:54:24Z")
[QUOTE=Czarcasm] Not sure what you mean be this. Could you give a (fictional) example? [/QUOTE] IUEWHM (I Understand Exactly What He Means) IYKWIM ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-youd-make-if-you-were-king/693220/37 "2014-07-22T19:55:13Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > IUEWHM > (I Understand Exactly What He means) I see. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-youd-make-if-you-were-king/693220/38 "2014-07-22T19:57:33Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I like zombies. It’s almost the only way I remember what I thought about some things years and years ago. The zombies would still be there to look at, but they would be in nice little cages where they couldn’t get out and bite people on the ass years later. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-youd-make-if-you-were-king/693220/39 "2014-07-22T20:04:42Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > No keeping threads open that would otherwise be shut down just because others are having fun ripping into the OP. Cruelty is no reason to leave a thread open. Wait, what!? ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-youd-make-if-you-were-king/693220/40 "2014-07-22T20:26:03Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > IUEWHM > (I Understand Exactly What He Means) > > IYKWIM IHNIWYM Also OPs of Pit threads have to have substance of at least a paragraph or two. There has to at least be an attempt at entertainment. No more of this: “Here’s a thing. Be mad.” [GoBeMadAtThisLink.com](http://GoBeMadAtThisLink.com) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-youd-make-if-you-were-king/693220.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-youd-make-if-you-were-king/693220.md?page=3)