# SDMB is the 28th most active online forum!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-is-the-28th-most-active-online-forum/223942
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 11, 2004, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-is-the-28th-most-active-online-forum/223942 "2004-01-11T05:31:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Sqube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sqube)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2004, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-is-the-28th-most-active-online-forum/223942/1 "2004-01-11T05:31:54Z")
… at least it is according to [Big Boards](http://www.big-boards.com/), which apparently indexes a list of the most active online forums on the web.
Just thought I’d throw that out there and see what my fellow Dopers thought about it.
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### Author:  [@LadyMack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LadyMack)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2004, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-is-the-28th-most-active-online-forum/223942/2 "2004-01-11T05:36:48Z")
Good, good.
_:::looks at 27 others more active:::_
erm…_confused_
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### Author:  [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2004, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-is-the-28th-most-active-online-forum/223942/3 "2004-01-11T05:59:24Z")
Any chance we could drop down to, say, #50? Just to give the hamsters a break?
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### Author:  [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2004, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-is-the-28th-most-active-online-forum/223942/4 "2004-01-11T06:08:38Z")
[Chiquititas](http://www.chiquititas.net) (Hebrew forum for an argentinian soap opera) is #18. That has _got_ to be one hell of a soap opera to be more active than these boards.
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### Author:  [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2004, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-is-the-28th-most-active-online-forum/223942/5 "2004-01-11T06:36:54Z")
Hmm, I dunno but #15 looks pretty interesting…
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### Author:  [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2004, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-is-the-28th-most-active-online-forum/223942/6 "2004-01-11T06:42:40Z")
_poke_
Just doing my bit to raise our ranking.
_poke, prod_
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### Author:  [@xanadu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xanadu)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2004, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-is-the-28th-most-active-online-forum/223942/7 "2004-01-11T07:20:44Z")
1. Dammit!!! Now I have the song “Chiquititas” by ABBA stuck in my head!!! :dubious:
2. Hey! What if we go on all of the other boards and post anonymously to direct them here? Could bump this site up a spot or two…
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### Author:  [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2004, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-is-the-28th-most-active-online-forum/223942/8 "2004-01-11T07:50:08Z")
Literotica is number 15?? Erm, my bad! Sorry all!
And #29 is a Dave Mathews Band discussion forum? I mean, I love the Dave Mathews Band and all… but WTF?
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### Author:  [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2004, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-is-the-28th-most-active-online-forum/223942/9 "2004-01-11T08:10:05Z")
Hmmmm. Select English only and SDMB ranking goes to #21. Since all posts here are required to be in English that makes me feel a little better.
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### Author:  [@Grimace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grimace)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2004, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-is-the-28th-most-active-online-forum/223942/10 "2004-01-11T08:15:53Z")
There’s a sure sign of the Apocolypse there. At #17 **JBB** _NSYNC fan message board_
Over 6 mil posts…
Can you imagine what some of those posts must be like?
brain…shutting…down…
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### Author:  [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2004, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-is-the-28th-most-active-online-forum/223942/11 "2004-01-11T08:20:54Z")
We may be 28th in _quantity_ but where’s a site that ranks _quality_?
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### Author:  [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2004, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-is-the-28th-most-active-online-forum/223942/12 "2004-01-11T08:44:12Z")
Sure sign that I have too much time on my hands…
I figured maybe we had the edge on posts/member ratios so I copied the entire list into Excel and did a little calculating and sorting of my own. The SDMB comes in at a paltry #95 with an average of 100 posts per user. The top board in this case is Black Sheep Forums (humorously reduced to [www.bsforums.com](http://www.bsforums.com) for the URL) with 404 members averaging a whopping 1,513.6 posts each.
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### Author:  [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2004, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-is-the-28th-most-active-online-forum/223942/13 "2004-01-11T08:49:13Z")
Hmm…the Dutch seem to be an active bunch on the Internet.
And the Subaru board? Are those cars that bad that people feel the need to flock to a board?
The list seems a bit like comparing apples and oranges.
A case could be made that SDMB is the number one board for people without a specific agenda.
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### Author:  [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2004, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-is-the-28th-most-active-online-forum/223942/14 "2004-01-11T09:03:55Z")
Actually, the top is “[Yaspb.de](http://Yaspb.de) - Smalltalk and fun community (in german)” with 661191 posts from only 167 members, an average of 3959 per member.
It’s easier to just click sort by [Posts/members ratio](http://www.big-boards.com/index.php?sort=ratio) than to do all that in Excel.
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### Author:  [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2004, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-is-the-28th-most-active-online-forum/223942/15 "2004-01-11T09:03:55Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by DMark \*
> \*\*A case could be made that SDMB is the number one board for people without a specific agenda. \*\*
Our agenda is fighting ignorance. At least in _some_ forums. Organizing dopefests is another one.
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### Author:  [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2004, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-is-the-28th-most-active-online-forum/223942/16 "2004-01-11T09:06:08Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Horseflesh \*
> \*\*[Chiquititas](http://www.chiquititas.net) (Hebrew forum for an argentinian soap opera) is #18. That has _got_ to be one hell of a soap opera to be more active than these boards. \*\*
[Massive hijack] As the father of an 11 year old Israeli girl - you don’t want to know… ☹ :eek: Someone has convinced the Israeli public that Latin-American Soap Operas are, well, **“latin”** - supposably meaning sexy, exotic, etc…
**And** we (well, they…) get to see “_Ribaldes_” (sp?) [“rebels” - they grow up a bit…] as well! Double whammy if I’ve ever seen one
[/massive hijack]
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### Author:  [@Headspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Headspace)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2004, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-is-the-28th-most-active-online-forum/223942/17 "2004-01-11T10:46:02Z")
SMB drops to 49 when you look at posts last week!
Only one behind Yu-Gi-Oh trading card game message boards but a massive 24 behind HANSON mb - WTF!!!
Anything to do with less hamsters?
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### Author:  [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2004, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-is-the-28th-most-active-online-forum/223942/18 "2004-01-11T14:48:39Z")
We’re #4 in general discussion forums. Two of the boards above us are non-english boards.
The top english site on that list looks like the ignorant, redneck version of the SDMB
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### Author:  [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2004, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-is-the-28th-most-active-online-forum/223942/19 "2004-01-11T15:23:19Z")
Just look at the posts on that English general discussion Message Board that’s above us, and it’s clear [why](http://www.genmay.net/showthread.php?threadid=273478) they get more traffic than we do.
:rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@Intent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intent)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2004, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-is-the-28th-most-active-online-forum/223942/20 "2004-01-11T21:10:34Z")
That site is actually how I found this board.
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