Here’s a link to archived threads.
And I wouldn’t mind being able to search for “sex”, either. 
To Hell with being able to search for “sex” I want to be able to have my searches for threads about a “death ray” not get cluttered with discussions of mortality. So, yeah, find some way to beef up the search feature to allow for three letter searches.
I’m not really interested in a sports forum, but I think that the sports fans should have it. If only to allow it to stop keeping me from spotting the threads I’m interested in actually reading in Cafe Society.
I’d like to see a pukey smiley. I agree with all the people complaining that emoticons are silly and childish. But there are times I like behaving that way.
I’d like to thank What Exit? for mentioning the change in display options. I’m looking forward to that. (Gonna be able to search through the U.S. History trivia thread more easily now!)
I would love a sports and games forum. First, it would allow for more Mafia games, and I’m all for more Mafia games. Second, I think sports threads are quite possibly the most threadshitted genre of thread on this entire board, and maybe that would be reduced if they were taken out of Gen Pop, as it were.
Though I’ve no interest in them, I too would like to see a sports and games forum. I like the idea of avatars (that one could turn off) which are non animated.
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It already does that. Just select the text you want and click on the quote button. It wraps the text in quote tags. Works for me anyway.
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In which case I amend my wish to the link button automatically putting selected text in the “text to be displayed” pop up.
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Like (I suspect) many Dopers, I find that the lack of avatars and embedded images is one of the reasons I keep coming back to the Dope. (Embedded images sounds great until someone posts an unpopular idea and gets a bunch of pictures of dog shit in response.) Same for the lack of images in sigs and the lack of a vomiting smiley. This board is elegant yet simple and utilitarian, and that’s one of the things that makes it a cut above other boards, IMO.
My biggest wish is for people to stop going nutso in the Pit over how awful the Board is–honestly, I don’t understand where they’re coming from at all. I can’t remember ever having a serious problem with the board’s performance since it went pay-to-play.
As for a sports thread, I used to be for the idea until I realized another thing I don’t like about the majority of other MBs: overspecialization. You know what I’m talking about: a sports forum, a TV forum, a movies forum, a classic movies forum, a forum for new videogames, a forum for the last videogame generation, a pre-1996 videogames forum, a math forum, a computer forum, a car forum…
If any forum got as specific as “Sports” (or “Sports and Games”), it would then be easy to justify splitting CS, GQ, and MPSIMS into at least three or four fora each, and maybe splitting up IMHO too. Add avatars, image embedding and massive sigs and you’ve got GenMay without the casual racism.
Well, with so many people claiming to have this problem, it seems less and less likely that the complainers are just fucking with my head. And I can’t discount your experiences. But I have not had this problem since we went pay-to-post. You guys must be downloading gigabytes of porn while you’re reading the Dope or something.
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I hate it when posters simply write “Couldn’t agree more” and then leave it at that, but this is one of those times for me. Hostile Dialect said it perfectly.
Of course, the performance could be a bit better, but other than that, leave more than well enough alone. Have your avatars if necessary, as long as I can turn them off.
Well said, HD. Except the bit about the Sports and Games Forum. That we really need. The rest I like just as is.
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As to the ability to show 200 posts per thread, you are most welcome and I am happy that other posters are finding it useful. I had a feeling that few knew about it yet.
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That is cool–only problem being I can’t tell from the threads list whether it’s a manageable what-was-a-two-pager or a less manageable what-was-a-four-pager. 
I don’t think I’ve ever wandered into a sports thread and I don’t ever recall seeing so many of them cluttering up CS I can’t find something to read. I’d say give reality shows their own forum before making a sports forum. A sports forum would get less traffic than Comments on Staff Reports.
Sport Forum
Faster Searches
Three letter searches
I am not into sigs, avatars or smilies but more opportunities to have titles aside from Member and Charter Member.
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That is cool–only problem being I can’t tell from the threads list whether it’s a manageable what-was-a-two-pager or a less manageable what-was-a-four-pager.
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Yeah, I switched back immediately to 50 – I’m too used to it.
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Here’s a link to archived threads.
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No. On vBulletin, “archives” are the low-bandwidth, search engine-friendly version of the board. They don’t include any more accessible messages than on the full version of the site.
non-animated avatars that we could turn off
searches to include three letter words
searches to include older threads
Sorry if this has already been mentioned, but I’d like the ability to click on my User Control Panel, click on View all Subscribed Threads and then conduct a search within only those threads I’m subscribed to. Not threads started by me, nor posts made by me. Just within those threads to which I’m subscribed.
Sigs & avatars are fine with me as long as I can turn them off. Smilies are a fact of informal online communication life. It doesn’t matter how eloquent you are, sometimes people need to know you’re smiling when you say that. Barf smilie? Has anyone in the history of this message board actually ever barfed as a consequence of something someone posted? I don’t think so.
Rather than a sports forum, I wouldn’t mind a forum where pics are allowed. In fact, it would be nice if I could turn on avatars, sigs & pictures for one forum only, preferably the picture forum.
While we’re creating new forums, let’s activate the children’s forum, and make that the SFW forum as well, and do away with this silly three-click rule about NSFW in all other forums. If you work someplace that prudish, stay off the fucking internet.
Yes, I said “fucking.” Ooh, hope I didn’t just get you fired, Sister Mary.
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non-animated avatars that we could turn off
searches to include three letter words
searches to include older threads
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Just to repeat, if avatars are activated, the switch is built in to turn them off in our user profiles. So while I don’t really want them, I would not mind them.
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Sorry if this has already been mentioned, but I’d like the ability to click on my User Control Panel, click on View all Subscribed Threads and then conduct a search within only those threads I’m subscribed to. Not threads started by me, nor posts made by me. Just within those threads to which I’m subscribed.
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That would be cool. It would save the server some overhead I would think.
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non-animated avatars that we could turn off
searches to include three letter words
searches to include older threads
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If we can turn them off, why do you need them to be non-animated?
The reason I ask is because I do not want avatars, even though we can turn them off, and for the life of me, I can’t figure out why. Why should I oppose them if I can turn them off?
Can I wish James Randi, Michael Shermer, Martin Gardner and Buzz Aldrin were members here?
Also, I would like to ride the pony.
I can help make the avatars if they get passed through. This would be mine:
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I don’t think I’ve ever wandered into a sports thread and I don’t ever recall seeing so many of them cluttering up CS I can’t find something to read.
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There are a lot of sports threads I don’t start simply because people can be snotty about both sports and too many threads on any one topic.