# What forums would you add to this message board? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 11, 2001, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-forums-would-you-add-to-this-message-board/68426 "2001-06-11T14:49:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Vinnie\_Virginslayer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/53a042/32.png) [@Vinnie\_Virginslayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vinnie_Virginslayer)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2001, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-forums-would-you-add-to-this-message-board/68426/1 "2001-06-11T14:49:14Z")
Before I begin, this is for fun only, I love the Straight Dope MB just the way it is. BUT . . if I were the webmaster, and I was forced to add forums to this website at gunpoint, they would be: **ASK THE GAY GUY . . AND OTHER EXPERTS!** This is for all those “Ask the XXX” threads, where Dopeheads offer their services and expertise for free! **SPORTS** All mindless sports posts go here. This is the place for taunting fans of other cities, and asking sports questions, so that the 90% of the Dopeheads that could care less could move on with their lives. **TROLL HELLHOLE** As soon as someone starts trolling, the thread gets bumped into the Hellhole, never to be seen again except by the bottom feeders of the Straight Dope Message Board. **RECYCLING BIN** New threads about often repeated topics get thrown in this place!! **GOD, JESUS, BUDDHA, MOHAMMED AND FRIENDS** Post all questions, debates, witnessing concerning religion here. **DIRTY, CHEAP SEX** No holds barred sex talk and discussion belongs in this forum. What would you add? ---
**Author:** ![Vinnie\_Virginslayer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/53a042/32.png) [@Vinnie\_Virginslayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vinnie_Virginslayer)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2001, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-forums-would-you-add-to-this-message-board/68426/2 "2001-06-11T14:51:38Z")
Oh and one more: \*\*HOW TO . . \*\* If you need help fixing you computer, or getting secrets to videogames, or programming your VCR, this is where you ask! ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2001, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-forums-would-you-add-to-this-message-board/68426/3 "2001-06-11T15:03:12Z")
I want a “CURRENT EVENTS” forum. When something happens, it’s a toss-up where the first few posts are going to land, and parallel conversations get going with some of the best points made over several threads instead of all in one. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2001, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-forums-would-you-add-to-this-message-board/68426/4 "2001-06-11T15:06:13Z")
How about an anonymous forum where we can shed our usernames, which in my case my wife, kids, and friends all know, and really talk about what we think? ---
**Author:** ![Spritle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Spritle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spritle)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2001, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-forums-would-you-add-to-this-message-board/68426/5 "2001-06-11T15:11:37Z")
I’d split “GQ” into “GQ” and “MPQIMA” (Mundane Pointless Questions I Must Ask). This is where those threads like “Why do buggers turn green?” and “What makes farts smell?” would belong. ---
**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2001, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-forums-would-you-add-to-this-message-board/68426/6 "2001-06-11T22:41:28Z")
**RANDOM VERBAL DIARHHEA** and then for afterwards… **THE CONFESSIONAL** ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2001, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-forums-would-you-add-to-this-message-board/68426/7 "2001-06-11T23:10:15Z")
**THE HALL OF SHAME** : Put the threads here that feature a poster demonstrating how one should **not** behave on the SDMB. To help the guilty parties save face, all the threads in here would be deleted six months after their arrival. ---
**Author:** ![Weird\_AL\_Einstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c67d28/32.png) [@Weird\_AL\_Einstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weird_AL_Einstein)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-forums-would-you-add-to-this-message-board/68426/8 "2001-06-12T07:52:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Vinnie Virginslayer \* > \*\*Before I begin, this is for fun only, I love the Straight Dope MB just the way it is. > > \*\* Hell, Vinnie thats a great list. Fun, schmun, I’d like to see every one of those. * * * It was a beautiful day in Central Park…the bird was singing and the flower was blooming. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2001, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-forums-would-you-add-to-this-message-board/68426/9 "2001-06-13T02:51:33Z")
At a dopefest earlier this year, a suggestion was made (by Sealemon if I recall correctly) that we need a **Social Announcements** forum for items such as post parties, dopefest plans, and personal announcements like births, engagements, and marriages. I’d also like to see a \*_Frequently Asked Questions_ forum. Hopefully newcomers would see that and check there before posting a repitition of a thread that’s already appered several times. This would also be a forum for the moderators to maintain a general set of guidelines for the board. And I’m all in favor of Vinnie’s suggestion of a sex forum. Call it **SDMB…After Dark**. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2001, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-forums-would-you-add-to-this-message-board/68426/10 "2001-06-13T03:02:14Z")
Science Help me fix it and of course the ever popular… **Evolution** surely that topic needs it’s own forum.