# what is this forum?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-forum/69310>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [June 19, 2001, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-forum/69310 "2001-06-19T09:19:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![curwin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@curwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curwin)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2001, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-forum/69310/1 "2001-06-19T09:19:31Z")

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[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?forumid=8&daysprune=1000](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?forumid=8&daysprune=1000)

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**Author:** ![wayward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a87d85/32.png) [@wayward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wayward)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2001, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-forum/69310/2 "2001-06-19T09:56:11Z")

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How the hell did you find that?  
My guess is that’s where the mods are putting all the pre-2000 threads that don’t get pruned. I could be wrong.

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**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2001, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-forum/69310/3 "2001-06-19T10:32:15Z")

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Nah, those threads are a hangover from the old UBB days. Mods started to archive some threads (which was doable in UBB), but the project was abandoned after the switch to VB since there is no separate “archive” category here.

pan

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**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2001, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-forum/69310/4 "2001-06-19T23:52:47Z")

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kabbes is right.

And yeah, how DID you find that link? From an old thread somewhere?

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2001, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-forum/69310/5 "2001-06-20T05:26:24Z")

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Or possibly he just noticed that the forum numbers took a big jump between GD and IMHO.