# What forum for "ask the..." thread?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-forum-for-ask-the-thread/272735>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [November 3, 2004, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-forum-for-ask-the-thread/272735 "2004-11-03T12:52:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-forum-for-ask-the-thread/272735/1 "2004-11-03T12:52:38Z")

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The title say it all.

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**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-forum-for-ask-the-thread/272735/2 "2004-11-03T13:02:31Z")

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Depends on what comes after the “the”.

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**Author:** ![Chairman\_Pow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Chairman\_Pow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chairman_Pow)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-forum-for-ask-the-thread/272735/3 "2004-11-03T18:09:29Z")

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I believe most go into IMHO.

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-forum-for-ask-the-thread/272735/4 "2004-11-04T00:02:24Z")

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Sounds about right to me.

your humble TubaDiva  
Admnistrator  
I guess this was an “ask the moderator” thread. That goes in About This Message Board.

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**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-forum-for-ask-the-thread/272735/5 "2004-11-04T13:10:17Z")

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Thanks all, I put it in General Questions, got the slap-down I so richly deserved, and a Moderator moved it to IMHO.

Lesson learned.