# SD vs SDMB
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-vs-sdmb/597214
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [September 22, 2011, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-vs-sdmb/597214 "2011-09-22T17:06:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2011, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-vs-sdmb/597214/1 "2011-09-22T17:06:51Z")
How does the popularity of these two parts of the site compare, in terms of hits and whatever other measures might be appropriate?
And how has this changed over the years?
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### Author:  [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2011, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-vs-sdmb/597214/2 "2011-09-22T18:31:47Z")
Well, the SDMB is the **S** traight **D** ope **M** essage **B** oard, and SD is **S** outh **D** akota.
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### Author:  [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2011, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-vs-sdmb/597214/3 "2011-09-22T18:33:45Z")
SD is also **S** uper **d** ude, but I’m talking about the Straight Dope, i.e. Cecil’s columns etc.
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### Author:  [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2011, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-vs-sdmb/597214/4 "2011-09-22T19:05:51Z")
I’d be surprised if South Dakota was more popular than **Superdude**.
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### Author:  [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2011, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-vs-sdmb/597214/5 "2011-09-22T19:47:15Z")
Isn’t that like asking mother which kid she likes best?
😃
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### Author:  [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2011, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-vs-sdmb/597214/6 "2011-09-22T20:08:46Z")
As in the answer is obvious, but she’ll never admit it?
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### Author:  [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2011, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-vs-sdmb/597214/7 "2011-09-22T20:53:39Z")
> [@Superdude](#):
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> Well, the SDMB is the **S** traight **D** ope **M** essage **B** oard, and SD is **S** outh **D** akota.
It’s **S** an **D** iego.
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### Author:  [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2011, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-vs-sdmb/597214/8 "2011-09-22T21:09:06Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#):
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> Isn’t that like asking mother which kid she likes best?
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> 😃
I once said (riffing on the old staple “my mama didn’t raise no dummies”), “My mama only raised one dummy” in my mother’s presence.
Her reply was, “That’s a mean thing to say about your brother.”
Only thing is, I have a brother _and_ a sister. Parental impartiality: you’re doing it wrong.
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### Author:  [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2011, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-vs-sdmb/597214/9 "2011-09-22T21:55:27Z")
My mother would have replied “But we love you just the same.”
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### Author:  [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2011, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-vs-sdmb/597214/10 "2011-09-22T23:35:16Z")
> [@Darth\_Panda](#):
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> I’d be surprised if South Dakota was more popular than **Superdude**.
I’d be surprised if South Dakota was more populated than **Superdude**.
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### Author:  [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2011, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-vs-sdmb/597214/11 "2011-09-23T02:50:36Z")
OK, maybe not related, but I have to mention here that I usually look for the message board by entering SDMB on Google when I’m on a computer outside the home,
It worked nicely for years until about a few years ago suddenly The Sonoran Desert Mountain Bicyclists (Hey, they are from around here!) began to jump to the top of the searches, for months the top spot kept on changing but once the Dope started to accept spiders from Google it was over quickly, the Straight Dope Message Board has remained on top of the searches ever since, at least over here in my neck of the [del]woods[/del] saguaros.