# Should mpsims be changed? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 7, 2000, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-mpsims-be-changed/14504 "2000-03-07T14:15:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2000, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-mpsims-be-changed/14504/1 "2000-03-07T14:15:00Z")
I realize that some banal stuff gets bandied about on here. But a whole hell of a lot of it is NOT mundance and pointless. People sharing and getting advice on important parts of their lives is anything but mundane…at least IMHO. I would take the verbal support that I have been given here in the tattoo thread over most anything in GQ. The mpsims forum has actually help get me through some life shaking situations and mundane and pointless just doesn’t seem the proper name for this forum. Do you suppose any of the moderators or Cecil would ever consider renaming this forum? If so what are some suggestions by the mpsim faithfuls? It’s the mundane and pointless part that bothers me. I don’t feel that this topic should be in About this message board…but I of course remain humbled before the decisions of the great moderators. * * * Yours truly, aha ---
**Author:** ![PurpleCrackwhore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc348/32.png) [@PurpleCrackwhore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleCrackwhore)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2000, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-mpsims-be-changed/14504/2 "2000-03-07T14:53:00Z")
I happen to like the name mundane and pointless… fits right in with my lifestyle. Of course, I was voted most mundane and most pointless so I am rather biased. 🙂 * * * I really try to be good but it just isn’t in my nature! ---
**Author:** ![StrTrkr777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@StrTrkr777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StrTrkr777)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2000, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-mpsims-be-changed/14504/3 "2000-03-07T15:34:00Z")
I agree with Aha to a certain extent. I and others have shared things that may be mundane to others but not to ourselves (i.e. my wife and I finding out we were pregnant). Maybe another forum. Because the advice stuff is not for debate, not really a question and is not a flame, but is also not mundane. Maybe we could have a forum called “The Watercooler” where folks can gather around and talk. Or maybe NMPSIMS, Non-Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share. Just a couple of thoughts. Jeffery ---
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2000, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-mpsims-be-changed/14504/4 "2000-03-07T15:59:00Z")
Watercooler is a good suggestion StrTrkr…or something like it. * * * Yours truly, aha ---
**Author:** ![Sweet\_Basil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4bbf92/32.png) [@Sweet\_Basil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweet_Basil)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2000, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-mpsims-be-changed/14504/5 "2000-03-08T06:09:00Z")
Perhaps you could add “No-Troll Zone” to the new name somewhere… Sweet Basil * * * Didn’t get voted for a damn thing! (thanks guys…) ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Masterson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/53a042/32.png) [@Michael\_Masterson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Masterson)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2000, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-mpsims-be-changed/14504/6 "2000-03-07T19:00:00Z")
How about “The Lounge” or “The Poop Chute” ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2000, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-mpsims-be-changed/14504/7 "2000-03-07T19:20:00Z")
> [@](#): > > I and others have shared things that may be mundane to others but not to ourselves (i.e. my wife and I finding out we were pregnant). Damn! You’re **both** pregnant? That’s not mundane or pointless, that’s amazing! Sorry. 🙂 I think the name works, in the sense that the topics here are either silly or _personal_, which in the larger picture of The Straight Dope, could be considered mundane. Besides, I really like saying “mipsisms”. ## mipsisms, mipsisms, mipsisms. You say “cheesy” like that’s a **BAD** thing. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2000, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-mpsims-be-changed/14504/8 "2000-03-07T19:37:00Z")
Oh, yeah? Well you’re just going to have to STOP saying “mipsisms”, cause it’s pronounced EM-puh-sims. So there! * * * The overwhelming majority of people have more than the average (mean) number of legs. – E. Grebenik ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2000, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-mpsims-be-changed/14504/9 "2000-03-07T21:24:00Z")
I was thinking about this the other day too. I didn’t want to lose MPSIMS as a forum but I thought we should have a new forum added for advice, recipes, etc. One of the free papers we used to get in Indiana had a section called “Good Neighbors” that people could write in to to get advice on contractors, recipes, etc. Stuff like “I wanted to save such and such article from such and such magazine but threw it away…does anyone still have it?” That sort of thing. I was even going to write TUBA and suggest it, but you beat me to bringing it up. * * * “I don’t know…I don’t know.” – St. DooDah ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Dave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/46a35a/32.png) [@Great\_Dave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Dave)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2000, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-mpsims-be-changed/14504/10 "2000-03-07T21:39:00Z")
Why mess with a good thing? * * * It’s not how you pick your nose, it’s where you put the boogers ---
**Author:** ![WallyM7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5e925/32.png) [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2000, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-mpsims-be-changed/14504/11 "2000-03-07T21:56:00Z")
Aha makes a good point. MPSIMS would be more accurately described as a miscalleneous forum, although the name implies something else. Many of the posts are not Great Debates, nor General Questions, nor flames. Nevertheless, a significant portion are important, not just to the posters, but to the responders as well. So Mundane and Pointless is something of a misnomer. I’ve always defended this board against any sort of criticism, so it would be unseemly for me to start now, but aha has, in a non critical way, given us something to think about. Notice I said “think.” ## We’re not empowered to do more than that. It’s not our board, after all. But the admins have always been open to suggestion, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they responded, should enough members ask them to change the name to, say, “Wally’s Forum.” Hey, it works for me. Voted as: **The poster you’d most like to meet.** I demand a recount. ---
**Author:** ![StrTrkr777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@StrTrkr777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StrTrkr777)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2000, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-mpsims-be-changed/14504/12 "2000-03-07T23:17:00Z")
SeaLemon, yes, my wife and I are **both** pregnant. See, there was no question, nor a debate, and not a flame, but not Mundane either. But it was the only forum where I could tell everyone. Otherwise it would have gotten moved here anyway. Actually, the suggestion of The Lounge was a fairly good one and also the Good Neighbor Idea. Jeffery ---
**Author:** ![WallyM7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5e925/32.png) [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2000, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-mpsims-be-changed/14504/13 "2000-03-07T23:29:00Z")
Okay. How about: **MAIN LOBBY** Make yourself at home. ---
**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2000, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-mpsims-be-changed/14504/14 "2000-03-07T23:39:00Z")
Pub, waiting room, etc would all work. But then we would all get too serious and forget our mission, to be MPSIMS. If you have a question and need an answer, go right to General, however trivial your question is. They can only throw you back to here. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2000, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-mpsims-be-changed/14504/15 "2000-03-07T23:47:00Z")
> [@](#): > > But the admins have always been open to suggestion, What board have you been visiting? I seem to recall coment along the lines of “This board is not a democracy, and all considerations are decided by the Chicago Reader. (paraphared)” Anyways, I hope that certain things don’t always fall on deaf ears. > [@](#): > > I wouldn’t be surprised if they responded, They’ll certainly respond, but I think the tone and receptiveness to constructive critisism are dependant on the cycles of the moon, or other monthly cycles ;). Anyways, I have to agree that the OP brings up a very good point. While “ **Mipsisms** ” has a special spot in my heart, I agree that the truely mundane and pointless threads are the least interesting. I peruse the forum, as many have already expressed, to share personal stuff, either comical or serious, and to offer advice and solicited (and unsolicited) opinions. A large volume of topics aren’t questions, debates, or flames, but many definately aren’t mundane and pointless. What to do? Well, if a “Watercooler” forum was added (I like that name), I don’t think there would be much traffic in the MPSIMS forum any more because it seems like vast majority of topics aren’t mundane and pointless. Changing the name of the forum so it includes all types of topics seems like a good fix, but the MPSIMS name is just so entrenched in the SD lore that it would be sorely missed. I don’t think there is an easy solution. But a accurate point has been made. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2000, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-mpsims-be-changed/14504/16 "2000-03-07T23:51:00Z")
By the way, if a “Good Neighbor” forum is started I will personally maintain a thread in the pit bashing that banal title until I crash the server. ---
**Author:** ![Ophanim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8491ac/32.png) [@Ophanim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ophanim)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2000, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-mpsims-be-changed/14504/17 "2000-03-08T00:02:00Z")
Here’s a name! AUTOEROTIC ASPHYXIATION AND FELCHING FORUM That’s get me EXCITED about mundanity again! Or, what about: ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION AND YOU! I don’t know about you, but erectile dysfunction is most always on my mind. Or we could be honest SARCASTIC BITCHING AND STUFF There’s my two cents I pronounce it EM-PEE-SIMMS, by the by, why isn’t phonetically spelled the way it sounds? * * * Kisses! }\>\<(((^\>\<^)))\>\<{ Ophy ---
**Author:** ![WallyM7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5e925/32.png) [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2000, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-mpsims-be-changed/14504/18 "2000-03-08T00:07:00Z")
Omni, we screamed about the burning folders, and a day later they were gone. Your theory requires modificationalization. ---
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2000, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-mpsims-be-changed/14504/19 "2000-03-08T00:35:00Z")
## Ophanim: Go back to sleep… Yours truly, aha ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2000, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-mpsims-be-changed/14504/20 "2000-03-08T00:47:00Z")
aha, some of the first message topics you posted, were, well… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-mpsims-be-changed/14504.md?page=2)