# We Need a News Forum

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-news-forum/842591>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [October 28, 2019, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-news-forum/842591 "2019-10-28T13:56:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-news-forum/842591/21 "2019-10-30T15:06:51Z")

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> [@Bone](#):
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> A more likely reason is because we don’t want to?

As it was with avatars, which took… 19? years to implement against the "Oh noes, with pictures, words will lose their meanings"crowd.

There is room for two more smilies in that box over at the right. But that would probably break the board permanently.

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