# Should the SBMB have a (hopefully) temporary Coronavirus forum? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 15, 2020, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-sbmb-have-a-hopefully-temporary-coronavirus-forum/849578 "2020-03-15T23:23:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-sbmb-have-a-hopefully-temporary-coronavirus-forum/849578/1 "2020-03-15T23:23:30Z")
Any chance of adding a section for discussion just for the Corona virus? This way all posts of that subject are consolidated, and it would “clean up” the other sections. ( Donning fire proof suit ) ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-sbmb-have-a-hopefully-temporary-coronavirus-forum/849578/2 "2020-03-15T23:51:13Z")
We could call it the “Quarantine” section. ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-sbmb-have-a-hopefully-temporary-coronavirus-forum/849578/3 "2020-03-16T01:41:25Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > We could call it the “Quarantine” section. Too clever an idea not to use. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-sbmb-have-a-hopefully-temporary-coronavirus-forum/849578/4 "2020-03-16T02:12:10Z")
Normally, I’d think this is a good idea. But with all the problems this board has been having lately, would it likely cause more? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-sbmb-have-a-hopefully-temporary-coronavirus-forum/849578/5 "2020-03-16T02:24:09Z")
Why would it help? I mean at this point 80% of the board’s activity is either COVID-19 or the upcoming US election. Also what Grrr! said. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-sbmb-have-a-hopefully-temporary-coronavirus-forum/849578/6 "2020-03-16T02:42:56Z")
Like containing the virus itself, I’d say it’s a bit too late. It’s infected every nook and cranny on the board. The poor moderators would have to work double-time corralling and transferring all the current threads to the new forum and then play whack-a-mole with any new ones. Probably not worth the effort. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-sbmb-have-a-hopefully-temporary-coronavirus-forum/849578/7 "2020-03-16T05:43:29Z")
Worth discussing. Which we are right now. Jenny your humble TubaDiva Administrator ---
**Author:** ![Dude111](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ba8739/32.png) [@Dude111](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dude111)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-sbmb-have-a-hopefully-temporary-coronavirus-forum/849578/8 "2020-03-16T06:51:07Z")
Yes it would be a good idea Jenny 🙂 (Then we couild move all threads to that base) ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-sbmb-have-a-hopefully-temporary-coronavirus-forum/849578/9 "2020-03-16T11:50:23Z")
It is the subject-du-jour, and probably the subject d’anee, and the threads are in every forum. It’s pretty much the only subject that many of us are current focused on. Not sure how complicated this would be. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-sbmb-have-a-hopefully-temporary-coronavirus-forum/849578/10 "2020-03-16T12:06:37Z")
**Moderator Note** Two threads on the same topic have been merged. ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-sbmb-have-a-hopefully-temporary-coronavirus-forum/849578/11 "2020-03-16T12:37:36Z")
I think its a good idea. I’d also like to see the rules aggressively enforced especially political sniping in Breaking News…and yes, I have reported some. ---
**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:** [March 16, 2020, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-sbmb-have-a-hopefully-temporary-coronavirus-forum/849578/12 "2020-03-16T13:15:43Z")
Naah, I don’t see the need, quite frankly. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-sbmb-have-a-hopefully-temporary-coronavirus-forum/849578/13 "2020-03-16T13:47:57Z")
_Coronavirus, Politics & Elections_? CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-sbmb-have-a-hopefully-temporary-coronavirus-forum/849578/14 "2020-03-16T15:19:37Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > _Coronavirus, Politics & Elections_? > > CMC fnord! And bacon. And spam, spam, spamitty spam. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-sbmb-have-a-hopefully-temporary-coronavirus-forum/849578/15 "2020-03-16T15:27:03Z")
FWIW, I vote NO. It’s already hard enough keeping track of which COVID19 threads I’m interested in the different forums; mix them all together & it’ll just turn into one big jumble. I think we should keep our threads [del]socially[/del] forumly distanced. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-sbmb-have-a-hopefully-temporary-coronavirus-forum/849578/16 "2020-03-16T15:57:51Z")
The general questions and debates about mundane Coronavirus politics, games, and society pit forum? ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-sbmb-have-a-hopefully-temporary-coronavirus-forum/849578/17 "2020-03-16T16:29:23Z")
I would like to have a temporary Covid-19 forum, yes, for a few months until the thing blows over. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-sbmb-have-a-hopefully-temporary-coronavirus-forum/849578/18 "2020-03-16T20:58:10Z")
> [@What\_the](#): > > I think its a good idea. I’d also like to see the rules aggressively enforced especially political sniping in Breaking News…and yes, I have reported some. Then they’d better not all be “Breaking News” threads, because politics figures heavily in the response to, or lack of response to, or aggrivation of the pandemic. ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-sbmb-have-a-hopefully-temporary-coronavirus-forum/849578/19 "2020-03-16T21:09:33Z")
It might be good to have something for all the breaking news, personal experiences and opinions, however I wouldn’t like to see threads from GQ moved. GQ questions must be protected, like the elderly. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-sbmb-have-a-hopefully-temporary-coronavirus-forum/849578/20 "2020-03-16T21:51:31Z")
I’d prefer not, since the fora have different rules. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-sbmb-have-a-hopefully-temporary-coronavirus-forum/849578.md?page=2)