# \#straightdope.  Where'd it go?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straightdope-whered-it-go/473411>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 19, 2008, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straightdope-whered-it-go/473411 "2008-11-19T03:26:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straightdope-whered-it-go/473411/1 "2008-11-19T03:26:34Z")

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Did the chat version / shadow community of this msg board just wither away and die, or did it GO somewhere without forwarding address or something?

I’m not much of a chatter but I used to drop in occasionally. Been the deadest of ghost towns lately, what gives?

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**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straightdope-whered-it-go/473411/2 "2008-11-19T03:43:58Z")

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I hear it just sort of died out. It was pretty close to dead when I stopped hanging out there a couple of years ago.

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**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straightdope-whered-it-go/473411/3 "2008-11-19T05:13:46Z")

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Wow, the topic was last set in August. Now _that’s_ dead.

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**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straightdope-whered-it-go/473411/4 "2008-11-19T05:35:48Z")

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heh…one of us could never understand IRC so she never was able to chat.

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**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straightdope-whered-it-go/473411/5 "2008-11-19T06:39:34Z")

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We ran out of trout.

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**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straightdope-whered-it-go/473411/6 "2008-11-19T14:41:06Z")

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It’s my fault. When I left, there wasn’t much point in anyone else coming anymore.