# Things I'd like to see when/if this message board says "Buh-bye" **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 14, 2025, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040 "2025-08-14T16:40:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040/1 "2025-08-14T16:40:53Z")
Just for fun, folks.šŸ˜ I would like to see a list of the top ten posters that have been blocked. I wouldnā€™t mind seeing if/where I am on the list. Yours? ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040/2 "2025-08-14T16:42:00Z")
Most socks? ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040/3 "2025-08-14T16:42:10Z")
Similarly, it would be interesting (to me) to see which threads have been ā€œmutedā€ most. I mute all game threads, for example. ---
**Author:** ![xtenkfarpl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c2a13f/32.png) [@xtenkfarpl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xtenkfarpl)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040/4 "2025-08-14T17:05:45Z")
Cecil is dead. RIP. ---
**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:** [August 14, 2025, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040/5 "2025-08-14T17:06:15Z")
Have the cornfield subforum opened up to perusal (but read-only for us peons). ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040/6 "2025-08-14T17:07:53Z")
Only if there is a way to block downloading and reposting. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040/7 "2025-08-14T17:33:24Z")
I have No One blocked. I would like, on the Last Thread Ever, everyone to post their photos. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040/8 "2025-08-14T17:35:59Z")
As a final act, _everyone_ gets banned. Itā€™s not like it hasnā€™t been done before. šŸ˜ ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040/9 "2025-08-14T18:14:58Z")
Wasnā€™t there once a Cecil Version of ā€œYes Virginia, there is a Santa Clausā€? ---
**Author:** ![DemonTree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demontree/32/8646_2.png) [@DemonTree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonTree)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040/10 "2025-08-14T18:35:18Z")
Unban all the banned posters and hold a reunion. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040/11 "2025-08-14T18:37:00Z")
And give them all the attention they slobber after? I donā€™t _think_ so. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040/12 "2025-08-14T18:44:33Z")
Iā€™d open a subforum for all the banned posters - quite a few of them were not trocks. Iā€™d have a no-rules pit weekend, then commit all those posts to the cornfield. We did that once. (Well, it was due to a software issue, but still.) Iā€™d encourage the the mods to pick up their stakes and relocate elsewhere. Drop me a line, Iā€™ve reserved a couple of domains. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040/13 "2025-08-14T19:12:02Z")
The thing Iā€™d most like to see is some way for us all to communicate to re-establish our colony on a different asteroid after this one hits some planet. Ideally some kind of deadmanā€™s switch so ahead of time those who wanted could opt in to having their email go public connected to their username, and if the siteā€™s plug got pulled, that escrowed information would automatically be made available to all. Or some other idea, but the punchline is a way for most of us to find each other again if SDMB blinked out of existence with no warning. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040/14 "2025-08-14T19:12:20Z")
Have a Dopefest. By then weā€™ll all be able to fit into a small room, so it wonā€™t be expensive. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040/15 "2025-08-14T19:30:57Z")
> [@DemonTree](#): > > Unban all the banned posters and hold a reunion. Re-instate Manhattan and let him do it! > [@LSLGuy](#): > > Ideally some kind of deadmanā€™s switch so ahead of time those who wanted could opt in to having their email go public connected to their username, and if the siteā€™s plug got pulled, that escrowed information would automatically be made available to all. This is actually a good idea. Isnā€™t that the reason the Giraffe Boards were set up? Are they still a thing? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040/16 "2025-08-14T19:44:17Z")
IIRC GB was created out of some friction between TPTB here and former user Giraffe here. TPTB are still kinda touchy about any of us talking about the origin story, so Iā€™ll stop right there. But at one point when GB was well established and SDMBā€™s ownership was being batted around like a cat w a mouse, and with our mouseā€™s survival very much in doubt, many people talked about that being the post-shutdown reunion place if it became needed. That was a bunch of years ago already, so anyone new here since then probably has no idea GB exists, nor of the nebulous connection between here and there. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040/17 "2025-08-14T20:17:22Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > I would like, on the Last Thread Ever, everyone to post their photos. At the very least, someone post a pic of Cecil ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040/18 "2025-08-14T21:09:23Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > At the very least, someone post a pic of Cecil [![](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/beanyandcecil/images/4/40/Cecil_300-1-.gif) ](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/beanyandcecil/images/4/40/Cecil_300-1-.gif) ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040/19 "2025-08-14T21:37:54Z")
TouchƩ ---
**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:** [August 14, 2025, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040/20 "2025-08-14T21:47:40Z")
A download link to download the posts as an array of tables (forums, threads, posts) so I can have my own local copy of the Dope. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040.md?page=2)