# Select the first two forums you visit whenever you come back to the SDMB. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 3, 2011, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/select-the-first-two-forums-you-visit-whenever-you-come-back-to-the-sdmb/580613 "2011-05-03T20:02:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/select-the-first-two-forums-you-visit-whenever-you-come-back-to-the-sdmb/580613/21 "2011-05-04T01:43:48Z")
I do User CP, then I go from the bottom up - Pit, MPSIMS, IMHO, Cafe Society, then Great Debates. I occasionally check Elections and General Questions. If someone I’ve heard of has been banned or there’s some controversy afoot, I look at ATMB. I don’t ever go to any other forum. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/select-the-first-two-forums-you-visit-whenever-you-come-back-to-the-sdmb/580613/22 "2011-05-04T01:45:37Z")
I just do New Posts but if I’m not doing it that way for some reason, IMHO and Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/select-the-first-two-forums-you-visit-whenever-you-come-back-to-the-sdmb/580613/23 "2011-05-04T02:50:09Z")
Always the Game Room first, then to IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/select-the-first-two-forums-you-visit-whenever-you-come-back-to-the-sdmb/580613/24 "2011-05-04T10:42:27Z")
First I do a quick listing of all the threads I have posted in to see if there have been any updates. I then visit Great Debates and The barbecue Pit. My two least visited forums are Games and Cafe Society. Ah, I forgot about the Chicago forum which, for some reason, I have never clicked on. I don’t even know what the Barn House is, so that is two I have never visited. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/select-the-first-two-forums-you-visit-whenever-you-come-back-to-the-sdmb/580613/25 "2011-05-04T12:07:04Z")
> [@Tahssa](#): > > First is ATMB to see if anyone has been banned or someone has their panties in a twist over some mod action. > > Then Cafe to see if anyone is talking about any tv shows I like and then I just randomely bounce around. Ditto and ditto for first two forums, but then I go straight to MPSIMS. After _that_, I start randomly bouncing around. ---
**Author:** ![elninost0rm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ed655f/32.png) [@elninost0rm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elninost0rm)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/select-the-first-two-forums-you-visit-whenever-you-come-back-to-the-sdmb/580613/26 "2011-05-04T12:12:58Z")
Pit, MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/select-the-first-two-forums-you-visit-whenever-you-come-back-to-the-sdmb/580613/27 "2011-05-04T13:47:55Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Huh, I never knew that that button did that. I mean I knew on some level, but it never occured to me to click on it, or that a lot of people used it. In any event I usually start at GQ and work my way down the line (I prefer to do it forum by forum, so that the “mood” is consistent-I’d dislike jumping from a politics thread to a baseball thread back to a GQ as it would be a bit disconcerting. But to each his own. +1 Except that instead of “working my way down the line” I might skip around a bit, for example by checking out Cafe Society before Great Debates. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/select-the-first-two-forums-you-visit-whenever-you-come-back-to-the-sdmb/580613/28 "2011-05-04T13:50:35Z")
So now I had to go and try out the “New Posts” button. Bleah. Too all-over-the-place for me. Wait a minute—“New Posts” counts as a _search_? Does that mean people who use it regularly are slowing the board down? ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/select-the-first-two-forums-you-visit-whenever-you-come-back-to-the-sdmb/580613/29 "2011-05-04T14:02:56Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > So now I had to go and try out the “New Posts” button. > > Bleah. Too all-over-the-place for me. I feel the same way, which is why I never search like that. I like seeing all the threads lined up in their own forums. Anyway, always Cafe Society or In My Humble Opinion first, unless I’ve posted in another forum and want to see responses to the thread(s) there first off. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/select-the-first-two-forums-you-visit-whenever-you-come-back-to-the-sdmb/580613/30 "2011-05-04T14:20:16Z")
Always “new posts” first unless I’m looking for something specific. I most commonly _end up_ in MPSIMS and IMHO but since I almost always get there from a thread in the “new posts” list, I didn’t vote in the poll. ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/select-the-first-two-forums-you-visit-whenever-you-come-back-to-the-sdmb/580613/31 "2011-05-04T16:36:15Z")
Bottoms up! The Pit, then MPSIMS, then IMHO, then CS, then I usually skip over GD and go to GQ. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/select-the-first-two-forums-you-visit-whenever-you-come-back-to-the-sdmb/580613/32 "2011-05-04T16:43:05Z")
New Posts, but then I’ll go check Cafe Society in case there was a discussion I missed that has scrolled off New Posts. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/select-the-first-two-forums-you-visit-whenever-you-come-back-to-the-sdmb/580613/33 "2011-05-04T17:35:17Z")
ATMB, to check if anyone I like has been banned/suspended, and then GQ. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/select-the-first-two-forums-you-visit-whenever-you-come-back-to-the-sdmb/580613/34 "2011-05-04T17:47:59Z")
Imho, mpsims ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/select-the-first-two-forums-you-visit-whenever-you-come-back-to-the-sdmb/580613/35 "2011-05-04T18:23:20Z")
I go to Subscriptions first. Then GQ, then GD. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/select-the-first-two-forums-you-visit-whenever-you-come-back-to-the-sdmb/580613/36 "2011-05-04T18:38:39Z")
I start at the bottom and more or less work my way up, skipping the newest forums. So it’s Pit, MPSIMS, IMHO, Games, CS, GQ. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/select-the-first-two-forums-you-visit-whenever-you-come-back-to-the-sdmb/580613/37 "2011-05-04T18:40:17Z")
I usually start with the Pit, for which I am properly ashamed, then jump to CS. After that it’s usually from the bottom up, hitting mostly the traditional MPSIMS, IMHO, Cafe Society, GD, GQ and ATMB. I tend to skip Elections, Game Room and the rest. ---
**Author:** ![Crackrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Crackrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crackrat)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/select-the-first-two-forums-you-visit-whenever-you-come-back-to-the-sdmb/580613/38 "2011-05-05T02:21:17Z")
I usually open tabs for ATMB, GQ, GD, The Pit, and then IMHO and MPSIMS. Then I start with the last tab and work my way backward, opening tabs for all the threads I want to read from each forum. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/select-the-first-two-forums-you-visit-whenever-you-come-back-to-the-sdmb/580613.md?page=1)