# The SDMB has been /. 'ed! **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 7, 2003, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-has-been-ed/147146 "2003-01-07T15:04:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jdavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f6c823/32.png) [@jdavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jdavis)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-has-been-ed/147146/21 "2003-01-08T17:04:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by E-Sabbath \* > \*\*Well, Jerry? It’s over! So, what was it like, being the target of the /. effect? The hamsters kept running in their cages. Weighed down, but it wasn’t really any worse than the same time last year, before the hamsters got new chow. How’d you keep us going? \*\* Beyond the equivalent of taking a picture of the event for posterity **E-Sabbath** , I didn’t do anything. The server just did what servers are supposed to do. 🙂 Jerry ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-has-been-ed/147146/22 "2003-01-08T17:16:26Z")
I’m thinking that getting /.ed back on our previous server would have made last winter look a bit like a small hiccup. We’re (well, okay me, anyway) all just a bit in awe, is all, Jerry. Long Live The Chicago Reader, and that Knight of the Realm **Sir Jerry, Master of Hamsters**! [sub]I’m also thinking that we may have to upgrade the hamster jokes to, say, toy poodles, or possibly guinea pigs. Mebbe even big steroidal lab rats?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![japatlgt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@japatlgt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/japatlgt)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-has-been-ed/147146/23 "2003-01-08T17:21:59Z")
That’s interesting. I wondered where the link to the LOTR thread in my local sports board came from. Apparently, there was a pyramid effect as well. People see the link at /. and go to other boards and posts links and so on and so on. Yeah, I can see where that could cause a bottleneck! ---
**Author:** ![mazirian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@mazirian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mazirian)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-has-been-ed/147146/24 "2003-01-09T00:06:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Skeezix \* > Long Live The Chicago Reader, and that Knight of the Realm **Sir Jerry, Master of Hamsters**! Please accept this song by Those Darn Accordions! as a small token of our gratitude, Sir Jerry! [http://www.thosedarnaccordions.com/media/hamstaman.mp3](http://www.thosedarnaccordions.com/media/hamstaman.mp3) ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-has-been-ed/147146/25 "2003-01-09T03:12:30Z")
Two comments: It’s threads like this one that make me wish that **jdavis** posted more as a regular user, rather than appearing magically when a serious tech. question is raised and the Mods. sacrifice a gerbil to the Tech Gods. And it would be an excellent idea for an Admin. (for maximum effect) to post the copyright notice to that particular thread, with the note that posters retain copyright to their works subject to the rights of other members to quote them and the non-exclusive copyright of the Chicago Reader to reprint anything from the board that they choose. (Memo to Professional Editors: that thread has enough creativity and humor that aren’t board-specific that it might make an excellent and profitable book, if arrangements can be made with the Reader and/or the members who contributed in-the-style-of parodies.) ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-has-been-ed/147146/26 "2003-01-09T23:05:09Z")
I’ll just toss out that the thread was briefly showing in the top 25 on Blogdex yesterday ([http://blogdex.media.mit.edu/](http://blogdex.media.mit.edu/)) which means that for a while it was in the top 25 new links posted to all of the Weblogs that Blogdex monitors. Whew! Talk about giving the hamsters a workout! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-has-been-ed/147146.md?page=1)