# Straight Dope has spoiled me. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 9, 2011, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-has-spoiled-me/595765 "2011-09-09T23:02:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-has-spoiled-me/595765/21 "2011-09-10T11:50:07Z")
> [@hermette](#): > > Yeah, yeah, cut out the glurge and give us the good stuff - we want to hear more about the boil. And pus. And possibly pics if possible šŸ˜‰ Sorry, no pics. It was about the size of a garbanzo bean, under my right boob right where my bra strap goes, so quite uncomfortable. A couple of failed lancings just made it hurt so I did my best to ignore it. Then took a hot soapy bath and performed the ultimate lancing in the tub. Once deflated and emptied of ooky stuff and blood it hurt a lot less. I own a couple of yahoogroups, one very high volume so I have four moderators and a co-owner, the other an OT off-shoot of the main one. Theyā€™ve been going strong for about ten years, and many of us know each other IRL. The comment section for the local news ([mlive.com](http://mlive.com)) is pretty much a cesspool of racism and ignorance. Itā€™s depressing. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-has-spoiled-me/595765/22 "2011-09-10T18:22:20Z")
> [@chiroptera](#): > > Ok well the other forum I referenced is [city-data](http://www.city-data.com/forum/). Overall a nice forum but not asā€¦smart as SD. Iā€™m over there too sometimes (under a different name). Youā€™re right: Itā€™s a huge board, with a combination of wonderfully useful information about local issues with awful ignorance and stupidity about any slightly controversial issue. ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-has-spoiled-me/595765/23 "2011-09-12T08:41:07Z")
> [@chiroptera](#): > > Sorry, no pics. > > It was about the size of a garbanzo bean, under my right boob right where my bra strap goes, so quite uncomfortable. A couple of failed lancings just made it hurt so I did my best to ignore it. Then took a hot soapy bath and performed the ultimate lancing in the tub. Once deflated and emptied of ooky stuff and blood it hurt a lot less. I can almost feel the relief on your behalf! How come boils/itchy moles always head for the bra strap areas? Very unfair. I ended up having to go unsupported for a week one time, when the wound where a mole used to be healed. No ooky stuff though šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-has-spoiled-me/595765/24 "2011-09-12T19:01:07Z")
It kills me to read the horrible crap that passes for writing in other forums. I donā€™t consider myself as someone who writes well but I, at least, put in some effort to make sure the words are spelled correctly and punctuation is used appropriately. Just yesterday I read a thread where someone mentioned, ā€œour Four Fathers.ā€ I donā€™t think anyone replying after him noticed. That kind of shit would never pass here. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-has-spoiled-me/595765/25 "2011-09-12T19:10:13Z")
Aww everybody is all wubby todayā€¦ šŸ†’ ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-has-spoiled-me/595765/26 "2011-09-12T21:36:11Z")
Itā€™s not just the Dope. Of the four other forums (and TVtropes) I lurk at, only one has posters who routinely donā€™t use good English, and thatā€™s generally poor punctuation, capitalization, and spacing. And thatā€™s only a few people. But I like how the Dope is set up and the culture here, more or less. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-has-spoiled-me/595765/27 "2011-09-12T21:43:34Z")
Iā€™ve been on a parenting message board since I was pregnant with Whatsit Jr. (so about ten years now) and the only reason I stay is basically inertia and the fact that I have made a few online friends there. But the overall quality of discussion is just so unbelievably poor. Lots of easily-debunked glurge and fearful posts about perverts lurking around every corner and so forth. Thereā€™s a politics forum there and itā€™s sparsely populated mostly with climate-change/evolution deniers and the like. Gah. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-has-spoiled-me/595765/28 "2011-09-12T22:34:06Z")
> [@Covered\_In\_Bees](#): > > Iā€™m spoiled by other message boards actually banning trolls. The feeling I get is that the mods here seem willing to give apparent trolls plenty of rope to hang themselves with-i.e. the benefit of the doubt. Yeah in some cases it ends up being miles and miles of the stuff, but otherwise the banhammer might end up seeming to be overly harsh and arbitrary if the trigger is pulled quickly (even if in practice a guy who looks like a troll right from Day One of his posting history very rarely cleans up his game to become a regular regular here). ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-has-spoiled-me/595765/29 "2011-09-12T23:11:55Z")
This is the only board Iā€™ve ever belonged to, or contributed to, or even read at length. While I do take the occasional potshot at those who comment on news articles at the Alaska Daily News, itā€™s rather like shooting legless ducks. The retorts and comments there amount to the equivalent of ā€œoh yeah, well Obamanater sucks, man.ā€ ā€œYah, you tell him, **toughAlaskan45caliber**.ā€ šŸ˜› [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-has-spoiled-me/595765.md?page=1)