# What the hell's with all these lame new forums? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 4, 2008, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hells-with-all-these-lame-new-forums/475745 "2008-12-04T21:13:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hells-with-all-these-lame-new-forums/475745/21 "2008-12-04T22:24:31Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > Meanwhile, Dopers have been asking for a whole suite of new SDMB features that get lost in the shuffle… Asking for stuff is no good, you need to trick Zotti into thinking he thought of the ideas first. ---
**Author:** ![dgrdfd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@dgrdfd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dgrdfd)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hells-with-all-these-lame-new-forums/475745/22 "2008-12-04T22:26:30Z")
I want a Huntsville, AL forum. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hells-with-all-these-lame-new-forums/475745/23 "2008-12-04T22:31:04Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > You’d understand if you didn’t spend all your time using that 18-inch-long tongue to pleasure yourself. Tell the truth - if you had an 18-inch-long tongue that’s what you’d do! ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hells-with-all-these-lame-new-forums/475745/24 "2008-12-04T22:45:05Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > but you can implement a shitload of new forums for local interest? I don’t look at it as a shitload of new forums on this message board. I look at it as an entirely different message board, that happens to be linked and connected to the SDMB in such a way that members here who want to can participate there, and members who don’t can just ignore it. Kinda like two businesses sharing a building. Am I missing something? ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hells-with-all-these-lame-new-forums/475745/25 "2008-12-04T22:57:29Z")
> [@scout1222](#): > > Tell the truth - if you had an 18-inch-long tongue that’s what you’d do! You forget that I have three penises, each longer than the last, except for the first, which is pretty damn long anyway. You hobbit scum cannot begin to imagine the vistas of pleasure open to me. ---
**Author:** ![CircleofWillis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/54ee81/32.png) [@CircleofWillis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CircleofWillis)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hells-with-all-these-lame-new-forums/475745/26 "2008-12-04T22:59:51Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I don’t look at it as a shitload of new forums on this message board. I look at it as an entirely different message board, that happens to be linked and connected to the SDMB in such a way that members here who want to can participate there, and members who don’t can just ignore it. Kinda like two businesses sharing a building. > > Am I missing something? Being that they are subforums of the main board, I see it more as a grocery store that has subletted a small booth to a vendor selling miniature Sears Tower chotchkes while the f"Rock the Vote" folks are wandering the aisles blocking the chip display with the 10 for $10 Doritos. Again not a HUGE deal and no real ire, but seems the time that it took to put that together could’ve been better served elsewhere… their house, their rules. DOesn’t mean we have to agree with it. ---
**Author:** ![Interconnected\_Series\_of\_Tubes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/13edae/32.png) [@Interconnected\_Series\_of\_Tubes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interconnected_Series_of_Tubes)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hells-with-all-these-lame-new-forums/475745/27 "2008-12-04T23:44:19Z")
I can’t be the only one who didn’t even notice until reading this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hells-with-all-these-lame-new-forums/475745/28 "2008-12-05T00:00:42Z")
Although I recognize that Ed Zotti is trying to appeal to local advertisers, I think that fragmenting the membership of the board by creating local sub-boards is the wrong approach. Instead, I think they would have been better off trying to appeal to the people who post questions on places like Yahoo! Answers, considering that, according to [this article](http://www.slate.com/id/2179393/), “Hitwise, Yahoo! Answers is the second-most-visited education/reference site on the Internet after Wikipedia.” That article goes on to discuss how inaccurate many answers are on Yahoo! Answers. I think people can get better information here, and once they do, they’ll be drawn in and want to stay. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hells-with-all-these-lame-new-forums/475745/29 "2008-12-05T00:01:48Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > I was just having a discussion with someone about the issue of gay marriage, and how i don’t understand why it is so vehemently opposed by people who will not be directly affected by it in any way. > > I sort of feel the same way (although in a much less concerned manner) about your rant. > > How has your SDMB experience changed as a result of what you’re complaining about? If the presence of the Chicago forums doesn’t make any noticeable difference to the regular SDMB forums, why do you give a shit? I’ve also spent a bunch of time on these Boards over the past years, and the introduction of the Chicago sections has not changed my board experience one bit. Hell, my screen resolution means that, when i open the SDMB home page, i don’t even see them. They are literally out of sight, out of mind. > > I’ve complained about certain things here in the past, but this is truly lame. A-fucking-men. What the fuck is wrong with people that they can’t just not take part in something they are not interested in, they have to complain about it and try to get rid of it for everybody? I have zero interest in the new forums, so I don’t fucking read them. Why is this concept so fucking difficult for some people? ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hells-with-all-these-lame-new-forums/475745/30 "2008-12-05T00:17:38Z")
Why bother. Fuck. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hells-with-all-these-lame-new-forums/475745/31 "2008-12-05T00:20:38Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > No shit. I’ve read it. Now I’m Pitting it. No shit. Now you’re making an whiny bitch of yourself too. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hells-with-all-these-lame-new-forums/475745/32 "2008-12-05T00:40:55Z")
Heh. I didn’t even notice the new forums until this thread pointed them out. I can’t see them on my browser unless I scroll down from the frontpage, which I don’t really have any reason to do. I literally could’ve gone months without knowing about them. Now that its been pointed out to me though, I’m angry as hell and hope whoevers idea this was is put up against a wall. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hells-with-all-these-lame-new-forums/475745/33 "2008-12-05T00:52:16Z")
> [@scout1222](#): > > Tell the truth - if you had an 18-inch-long tongue that’s what you’d do! Which reminds us all of the famous Lyndon Baines Johnson quote. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hells-with-all-these-lame-new-forums/475745/34 "2008-12-05T00:54:07Z")
> [@dgrdfd](#): > > I want a Huntsville, AL forum. That would double the number of things to do in Huntsville, AL Manda JO Grissom, Class of '95 ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hells-with-all-these-lame-new-forums/475745/35 "2008-12-05T02:09:57Z")
You, you, you made me look . . . . _down there_! I’ll get you for this; the SDMB Front Page will continue to end at The **BBQ Pit** for me. ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hells-with-all-these-lame-new-forums/475745/36 "2008-12-05T02:17:01Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > Heh. I didn’t even notice the new forums until this thread pointed them out. I can’t see them on my browser unless I scroll down from the frontpage, which I don’t really have any reason to do. I literally could’ve gone months without knowing about them. > > Now that its been pointed out to me though, I’m angry as hell and hope whoevers idea this was is put up against a wall. What he said. Didn’t have a clue until five minutes ago, and now my rage burns with the fire of a thousand Taquitos. _…with Texas Pete._ ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hells-with-all-these-lame-new-forums/475745/37 "2008-12-05T02:21:23Z")
> [@5-4-Fighting](#): > > the SDMB Front Page will continue to end at The **BBQ Pit** for me. What? There is something under the Pit? Oh lord, no, please, no… ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hells-with-all-these-lame-new-forums/475745/38 "2008-12-05T02:49:59Z")
I originally came into support my comrade Ogre in his latent outrage, and to tell him “Go GATORS!” to sort of take the good karma back. I live in a CL city and could care less if they want to do Tampa fora. Probably wouldn’t get much notice by folks here. > [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Even _I,_ Who Detest All Sports, watched Olympic Ladie’s Beach Volleyball. Buck up, old fellow, buck up! Then I read this. It must either be “Olympic Lady’s Beach Volleyball” or “Olympic Ladies’ Beach Volleyball”. Most likely it is instead Olympic Women’s Beach Volleyball. Truly, though, it is a sport for the sports challenged amongst you. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hells-with-all-these-lame-new-forums/475745/39 "2008-12-05T03:06:12Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > No shit. Now you’re making an whiny bitch of yourself too. 😃 Hamlet, eternal asshole. ---
**Author:** ![Ichini\_Sanshigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d9b06d/32.png) [@Ichini\_Sanshigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichini_Sanshigo)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hells-with-all-these-lame-new-forums/475745/40 "2008-12-05T03:52:15Z")
> [@Interconnected\_Series\_of\_Tubes](#): > > I can’t be the only one who didn’t even notice until reading this thread. You aren’t. Because of my screen resolution, I didn’t even see the new forums until just now. Thanks Ogre! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hells-with-all-these-lame-new-forums/475745.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hells-with-all-these-lame-new-forums/475745.md?page=3)