# What would child forums look like? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 9, 2006, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-child-forums-look-like/356028 "2006-05-09T05:34:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-child-forums-look-like/356028/1 "2006-05-09T05:34:46Z")
I’m curious. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-child-forums-look-like/356028/2 "2006-05-09T13:25:31Z")
Well, they’d look like the adult forums, only smaller and more rambunctious. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-child-forums-look-like/356028/3 "2006-05-09T13:31:16Z")
Each forum would have forums of its own. If you clicked on Cafe Society, for example, instead of getting a bunch of Cafe Society threads, you’d get forums called Music, Art, Film, Comics, Cooking, Star Trek Jokes and so forth. If you clicked one of those, you might get threads, or yet more child forums until you eventually, in the fullness of time, reached the actual threads. In other words, it would mean extra clicking for no appreciable gain. ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-child-forums-look-like/356028/4 "2006-05-09T13:36:23Z")
\*\*You’re a booger head! No, you are!\*\* In other words, kinda like the BBQ Pit… ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-child-forums-look-like/356028/5 "2006-05-09T15:45:12Z")
[QUOTE=Spiff] \*\*You’re a booger head! No, you are!\*\* In other words, kinda like the BBQ Pit… [/QUOTE] And sometimes [_exactly_](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=370506) like the BBQ Pit ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-child-forums-look-like/356028/6 "2006-05-09T16:02:50Z")
Imagine a forum drawn by Margaret Keane. ---
**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:** [May 9, 2006, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-child-forums-look-like/356028/7 "2006-05-09T17:46:28Z")
[Child forums gone wild!](http://forums.simcentral.net/) ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-child-forums-look-like/356028/8 "2006-05-10T01:53:16Z")
Thank you. Thank you very much. ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-child-forums-look-like/356028/9 "2006-05-10T11:10:50Z")
Consider the writings of [Cecil Adams](http://www.straightdope.com). Compare the writings of [Ed Zotti](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345362322/sr=1-1/qid=1147259238/ref=sr_1_1/102-9204976-3336911?%5Fencoding=UTF8). That is what child forums would be like, compared to the SDMB forums. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-child-forums-look-like/356028/10 "2006-05-10T13:32:52Z")
Like their Daddy & Mommy Forums. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-child-forums-look-like/356028/11 "2006-05-11T13:13:27Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] Like their Daddy & Mommy Forums. [/QUOTE] Sometimes like The Milkman and Mommy Forums ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-child-forums-look-like/356028/12 "2006-05-11T19:38:55Z")
[QUOTE=Billdo] Compare the writings of [Ed Zotti](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345362322/sr=1-1/qid=1147259238/ref=sr_1_1/102-9204976-3336911?%5Fencoding=UTF8). [/QUOTE] Too funny: a reviewer back in 1999 observed, “The book gives the impression that Zotti is tired of standing in Cecil’s shadow. Sadly, he shows neither the wit nor the knowledge required to step into the light.” In your face, Little Ed!