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I am disappointed that forum 42 was not set up as a joke. It should be: The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything = …/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?f=42
Actually this was a serious question, I am curious. I imagine one is the secret Mod forum for discussing board matters. I imagine another is for spam. I am curious what the others are.
I know there’s a Straight Dope Limbo where controversial or suspected but not confirmed trolling, sock or spam threads are sometimes put while the moderators discuss whether or not they should be closed, deleted, or put back where they were.
We do have a rather boring “secret” forum for mods only. It’s where we document warnings, bannings, and such, and also where we move the spam and troll threads to. For instance, looking at a few of the thread titles, we have “Check This Out”, “Cam Captured Links”, and “Secret Credit Repair Guide”. In other words, we on the moderating staff act sort of like a spam filter on the SDMB as part of our duties. We don’t do much gossiping and fun stuff there, that’s reserved for the mod email loop.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy site has four forums, which are called Life, The Universe, Everything, and All about h2g2. Some of the entries are quite interesting. I recommend it to everyone who enjoyed the idea of H2G2, as it embodies this spirit.
Well, when I tried to access forums 8 through 11, I get the “…you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons: 1. Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else’s post, access administrative features or some other privileged system? 2. If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation” message. I can only assume those are where the Admins keep their secret “Gossip About the Mere Moderators and Frolic with Cecil Himself” forums.
IIRC at least one of the missing forums was the planned Archive of Really Great Posts That We Want to Keep Accessible – which was eaten by the hamsters when the board first moved to VBB. Ask Tubadiva about it – but bring along a box of facial tissues.
Some of them are inaccessible mod/admin-only areas where they discuss things and/or move troublesome posts (moving is less demanding than deletion to the board software, as I understand it), but I think at least one of them doesn’t exist at all on this installation - the current forum numbering is inherited from previous installations.
Forum 19 is where they keep the Ark Of The Covenant.
