# What are the most popular message boards in the Internet?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 25, 2003, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-popular-message-boards-in-the-internet/164042 "2003-03-25T16:20:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-popular-message-boards-in-the-internet/164042/21 "2003-03-26T12:46:20Z")

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The LBMB Board War was an ignoble period in our history. A few posters here noticed the LBMB and thought it was filled with ignorant bigots. (The Left Behind Message Board is related to the _Left Behind_ series of books and movies, fictional works that espouse the Fundamentalist Christian view of the End Times.) They decided to troll those boards and record their actions in a thread here.

Needless to say, the LBMB denizens soon found out what was happening. They came over here to troll us, resulting in a _huge_ upswing in `witnessing’ threads in GQ and acrimonious arguments in The BBQ Pit.

Bans were handed out on both message boards, and I believe the LBMB experienced a meltdown of sorts, with less vitriolic members leaving and forming the Pizza Parlor as a less-acrimonious version of the LBMB. Various Christians from the SDMB joined the Pizza Parlor and participate to this day.

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**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-popular-message-boards-in-the-internet/164042/22 "2003-03-26T12:53:08Z")

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> \*Originally posted by 5 time champ \*  
> \*\*_There is no Board but Straight Dope-  
> and Uncle Cecil is it’s Prophet_ \*\*

_1:1- And woe be unto them who journey forth, for the land of Slashdot and FARK are unkind unto them.  
1:2- For the Cecil sayeth “All knowledge shall be here. Or in the books. But mostly here. Jerk.”  
1:3- And the Straightdope shall guide all.  
1:4- For those that would come from beyond to Troll shall be dam’d for all time, and yea unto them shall come BSOD._

**Hadith of Tristan, Book of -Gry**

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**Author:** ![mallocks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f4b2a3/32.png) [@mallocks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mallocks)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-popular-message-boards-in-the-internet/164042/23 "2003-03-26T16:11:26Z")

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well, there’s the proof that this is all a (semi) religious cult 😃

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