# Why do Message Board users....... **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 18, 1999, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-message-board-users/361 "1999-03-18T21:26:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 1999, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-message-board-users/361/1 "1999-03-19T06:29:00Z")
…write incomplete subject headers? You know…‘Onions’ Instead of: ‘Why do onions cause our eyes to water?’ Which would be a full sentence and give all of us a chance to decide if we knew the answer. Of course, a subject of, ‘onions’ doesn’t really let us do that now, does it? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 1999, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-message-board-users/361/2 "1999-03-19T06:37:00Z")
Maybe they don’t want to pimp the question before they ask it. They’re trying to make the headline a ‘grabber’. Plus, if you ask it in the header, what do you have left for the message itself? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 1999, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-message-board-users/361/3 "1999-03-18T21:26:00Z")
Sorry, this is just a test ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 1999, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-message-board-users/361/4 "1999-03-19T00:48:00Z")
Or…We used to be limited to a certain amount of characters. I’m not sure how that works here. Plus on this rare occasion I agree with Ian JACK ---
**Author:** ![\_SILENT-BOB\_NOT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/e19adc/32.png) [@\_SILENT-BOB\_NOT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_SILENT-BOB_NOT)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-message-board-users/361/5 "2000-06-29T02:05:38Z")
:wally ---
**Author:** ![eggo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@eggo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eggo)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-message-board-users/361/6 "2000-06-29T02:12:25Z")
is it just me, or are there two posts at the top of this thread that aren’t by the originator? also, there seems to be a problem with the “topic review” the only post listed there is Silent Bob’s. Weird. ---
**Author:** ![Anti\_Pro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Anti\_Pro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anti_Pro)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-message-board-users/361/7 "2000-06-29T03:07:02Z")
\*\* eggo, \*\* you and I must be hitting the same thread titles, and you’re quite right, \*\* Silent Bob \*\* must have been working on the search engine and wanting to try out his ‘putz’ smiley face. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-message-board-users/361/8 "2000-06-29T03:40:24Z")
This is a thread that is so old it goes back to our earliest days in cyberspace. The imitation Silent Bob resurrected it. Thanks a lot, loser. your humble TubaDiva Administrator ---
**Author:** ![eggo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@eggo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eggo)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-message-board-users/361/9 "2000-06-29T04:23:00Z")
so what’s the deal with ed and handy being listed as “guest”? Is it somthing the troll did, or is it just that when these posts were made, they realy were guests? does anyone else see the two “testing” threads at the top, or am i going insane? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-message-board-users/361/10 "2000-06-29T05:30:48Z")
**eggo** In the posts carried over from uBB, everybody before a certain date/time is considered a guest. This is not something the troll did. ---
**Author:** ![G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.B.H.Hornswoggler)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-message-board-users/361/11 "2000-06-29T13:11:52Z")
You know, for some bizarre reason, this thread makes me want to break out my best Rex Harrison voice and sing: “Why can’t a user be more like a mod?” (But I think I’ll just lie down until the feeling goes away.)