# What is wrong with frivolous/silly/stupid threads? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 9, 2012, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511 "2012-12-09T16:04:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511/41 "2012-12-10T19:21:01Z")
At least I get text wrapping. ---
**Author:** ![colonial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@colonial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colonial)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511/42 "2012-12-10T19:24:05Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > At least I get text wrapping. Make that a dunce cap. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511/43 "2012-12-10T19:47:52Z")
> [@colonial](#): > > Not only that, but this place is so full of JHS+moonbeamer/libertarian types that > it might be no thread was ever locked if it were up to a poll. Every thread is an implicit poll - if the community thinks it’s worthwhile, people will post to it and keep it going; if not, it drops off the front page pretty quickly. There’s no need for moderator action unless actual rules are broken. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511/44 "2012-12-10T20:03:16Z")
I’d bet 5:1 he watches shemale porn. And the Queen probably has to improvise. I’d bet she uses an electric toothbrush. Probably named it Gerard too. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Sucr7wT7QYo/hqdefault.jpg "The Big Bang Theory Season 4 Episode 17 - Electric Toothbrush") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sucr7wT7QYo) ---
**Author:** ![colonial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@colonial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colonial)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511/45 "2012-12-10T20:30:23Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > Every thread is an implicit poll - if the community thinks it’s worthwhile, people will post to it and keep it going; if not, it drops off the front page pretty quickly. There’s no need for moderator action unless actual rules are broken. Previously addressed: “this place is so full of JHS+moonbeamer/libertarian type s that it might be no thread was ever locked if it were up to a poll” much less if it were up to an implicit poll, or whatever. ---
**Author:** ![colonial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@colonial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colonial)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511/46 "2012-12-10T20:31:36Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > I’d bet 5:1 he watches shemale porn. > > And the Queen probably has to improvise. I’d bet she uses an electric toothbrush. Probably named it Gerard too. > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sucr7wT7QYo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sucr7wT7QYo) It is time to close this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511/47 "2012-12-10T20:34:39Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > It’s a stupid rule and it should have been up to the community to decide if task’s thread was worthwhile, not ravenman and twickster. This post reminds me of the Colbert Report where he learns about the decision-making process of Occupy Wall Street. [See starting at 3:40 or so.](http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/401092/october-31-2011/colbert-super-pac---occupy-wall-street-co-optportunity---stephen-on-location) I sense that **Inner Stickler** is casting a “block” on closing down the thread. However, I am making a triangle thing with my fingers, which requires everyone else to make other finger motions to make no decision in a consensus sort of way that will lay out non-rules for nobody to enforce the will of everyone who agrees to be bound by the feelings of those who are not the moderators. We are the 99%!! ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511/48 "2012-12-10T20:34:51Z")
So stop posting in it. Problem solved. ---
**Author:** ![colonial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@colonial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colonial)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511/49 "2012-12-10T20:38:41Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > So stop posting in it. Problem solved. My posts are not the problem. Ergo problem unsolved. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511/50 "2012-12-10T20:41:21Z")
> [@taskmgr.exe](#): > > OK, I know this is extremely [stupid](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=674988). But, is it harmful? Does it upset people? I don’t think it is any harmful or offensive. When Dopers go on and on about how the SDMB is the smartest and most intellectual message board on the Internet (often when defending the board against some change they see is “juvenile” such as avatars), with rarefied, intellectual discourse akin to what they think must take place behind the closed doors of an Ivy faculty lounge, and every member claims to have a genius-level IQ … ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511/51 "2012-12-10T21:39:28Z")
[Or not.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=674370) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511/52 "2012-12-10T21:42:51Z")
> [@colonial](#): > > My posts are not the problem. Ergo problem unsolved. Only if the idea of a thread existing in the abstract bothers you. ---
**Author:** ![colonial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@colonial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colonial)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511/53 "2012-12-10T21:55:33Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Only if the idea of a thread existing in the abstract bothers you. Stupidity bothers me, whether concrete or abstract. However, it is incorrect to say that a thread I do not reply to can only be abstact. When scrolling around here or in any other chat room it is impossible to miss the thread titles, right? And as I said earlier: “I have seen plenty of thread titles so disgusting I would not want to look at them.” Got it now? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511/54 "2012-12-10T22:00:47Z")
> [@colonial](#): > > And as I said earlier: “I have seen plenty of thread titles so disgusting > I would not want to look at them.” That seems like your problem, not ours. ---
**Author:** ![colonial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@colonial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colonial)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511/55 "2012-12-10T22:05:50Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > That seems like your problem, not ours. Many of them have wisely been closed, making them nobody’s problem, except for the JHS-moonbeamer/libertarian types. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511/56 "2012-12-10T22:19:35Z")
> [@colonial](#): > > It is time to close this thread. Apparantly not. Seriously, if a thread title bothers you just roll your eyes, continue thinking how much better you are than the rest of us and then mosey on. Just because you have a problem doesn’t make it the rest of the worlds problem. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511/57 "2012-12-10T22:22:49Z")
> [@colonial](#): > > When scrolling around here or in any other chat room it is impossible to miss the > thread titles, right? And as I said earlier: “I have seen plenty of thread titles so disgusting > I would not want to look at them.” > > Got it now? The solution to that problem is be a fucking adult. ---
**Author:** ![colonial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@colonial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colonial)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511/58 "2012-12-10T22:50:50Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Apparantly not. Soon I hope. > [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Seriously, if a thread title bothers you just roll your eyes, continue thinking how much better you are than the rest of us and then mosey on. That’s what I usually do. Since someone started a thread on it I thought I would contribute. > [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Just because you have a problem doesn’t make it the rest of the worlds problem. Much of the rest of the world does have problems I don’t have. Take the guy who started the thread referenced in OP… ---
**Author:** ![colonial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@colonial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colonial)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511/59 "2012-12-10T22:55:48Z")
Last post for me-- to many JHS caliber replies. > [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > The solution to that problem is be a fucking adult. That means the people who started the threads I have in mind could not possibly be part of the solution, although their critics might be. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511/60 "2012-12-10T23:26:45Z")
> [@colonial](#): > > Last post for me. OK. I’m wearing socks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511.md?page=4)