For some reasons I searched on Google “Curtis LeMay Straight Dope Message Board”, one of the results I got was a thread on Giraffe Board entitled the “Most Annoying SDMB Poster”. So what’s that forum all about anyways?
It’s a spin-off board started by former Pit moderator Giraffe last year in the wake of an unpopular set of new rules here.
ETA - The SDMB was gracious about it and even let Giraffe publicize it here.
Was the Giraffe banned? Is it more trollish than here?
Giraffe was not banned. If you are curious, go check it out.
Moved Cafe Society --> MPSIMS.
Curtis, if you’re curious about a different message board, it makes much more sense for you to visit that message board rather than ask us about it.
You can in fact belong to both boards or not. You won’t get banned at either for that.
There are considerably fewer rules, which is both good and bad. I liked the Giraffe board and spent some time there in the beginning, but the Dope’s superior numbers and greater activity kept me here for the most part and eventually I stopped going there. Giraffe did a great job with it, IMO, but it just never developed the horsepower we have here.
The mods there are really jerks.
That’s just what they want you to think.
QFT.
No u.
Boy and how! Especially that one called Fenris–what a tool!
Oops…
I think I may have registered over there after a couple of sodey pops one night. And then I think I may have checked back after a couple of weeks, and none of the threads on the front page of any forum had changed. I need more traffic than thah in muh messij bordz (but the much advertised “less AIDS” benefit of the Giraffe board was nice).
Yeah, same thing with the other spinoff message board, now called Mellophant*. I think we’re spoiled here with the good traffic, but also a lack of idiocy that plagues more prominent boards like Something Awful.
*: I’ve got to start my own boards and add to the African Safari of spinoff message boards we’ve got going.
We were wondering if that was you or a sock. Any excuse to drink Scotch. 
Oh yeah, the GB mods are drunk half the time too.
Yeah, I remember a good scotch thread going on. I may visit over there again the next time the haters get me down.
I’d like you to name me one member of GB who isn’t drunk on a regular basis.
Also, Curtis, this is exactly the sort of thing that got you listed in that Annoying posters thread, FYI.
I’m drunk now.
SHHH, do you wanna get this thread locked!?
But they have huge…wait no, and Raffers can say words like—nevermind.
I like both boards for different reasons, GB is quite a bit more relaxed and fun, but as you said, it just doesn’t quite have the numbers that the Dope does. I still post here plenty, especially when it’s a need answer fast type question or when it’s something overly technical since a lot of threads quickly dissolve into inside jokes, non-sequitors and general giddiness. Unless of course it’s a computer question, then we got 7 or whatever his name is today.
ETA Oh, and legal and medical type questions are kosher over there.