TubaDiva cruises all seven boards in pursuit of whatever it is Administrators enjoy in reading our wit, wisdom, or lack thereof. But this is her home turf, and of late it has been an exceptionally boring place to be, except for Nanobyte’s experiments in creative typography. Reading fifteen threads named “Test” “Test Two” “Another Test” “Testosterone” (oops, ignore that one) has got to be getting to her.
So, more for amusement than with the serious intent of suggestion (though if we do hit on something, that’s great), let’s come up with ideas on what the eighth board of the SDMB might be dedicated to. If we don’t accomplish anything else, we’ll have given TD something interesting to read. And who knows, we might just create something that the Powers That Be might want to implement.
I believe the eighth board should be dedicated to cliques. We can then settle that contentious issue once and for all. Every poster would have to apply to a clique before being allowed to express any thoughts. Those thoughts would then be duly parroted by all other members of the clique. Enemy cliques would be allowed to post in clique threads, but they would be prohibited from expressing agreement or conciliation. Only vitriol and profanity, preferably laced with personal insult, will be allowed.
The best lack all conviction
The worst are full of passionate intensity.
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I’m not sure the moderators are really looking for more threads to have to read, but here’s an idea:
“Interesting News Articles”
for example, if you read in Scientific American that evolution has been disproved, or that a new planet has been discovered on the other side of the sun, in the same orbit as earth but hidden behind the sun, you could post it there.
On August 22, 1999, for a couple of glorious hours, both forums 8 and 9 were freely accessable, with no moderators and no designated category names. The black flag of anarchy reigned supreme! Unfortunately, the threads quickly degenerated into debates as to which posters were the unchallenged supreme masters of the two forums. Then the administrators ended the fun by putting passwords on the forums, and, even worse, didn’t tell us what they were.
But I tell ya, it was even more fun than Berkeley in the 60’s…
Literature, books in print, books out of print, world literature translated into English, mysteries only, archaeology, history, pre-history, or James Thurber.
And rotate topic after a month.
Oh, I’m gonna keep using these #%@&* codes 'til I get 'em right.
Ok, just brainstorming here. Howzabout a forum for threads about old, worn-out questions. A separate thread for each one that no one wants to re-hash, but posters can go to if they’ve suddenly come up with some supposedly new insight into them.
We could have a final catch-all thread for the infamous “gry” question. Another one for “driveway/parkway”. Then whenever some uninformed newbie shows up, a moderate could immediately close the thread and direct them there.
Perhaps we could limit the OP threads to moderators, just to keep it from getting cluttered with threads that don’t belong.
