# Why was my Shark Jump Message Board thread closed? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 2, 2009, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-my-shark-jump-message-board-thread-closed/487952 "2009-03-02T01:59:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-my-shark-jump-message-board-thread-closed/487952/41 "2009-03-04T00:25:22Z")
I’m a member of DoMeBo and I hate the direction this board has taken recently, but in this case, **I Love Me, Vol. I** is wrong and **Marley23** is right. Contentless threads have almost always been closed. Plenty of threads have been closed based on the direction the conversation took, and that thread pretty quickly did become a DoMeBo discussion. And there really wasn’t much else to say about the OP. There just wasn’t a conversation there. That’s always been a recipe for a swiftly closed thread. The fact that it wasn’t even an _original_ contentless non-discussion starter, but was copied from another board might not have been reason enough alone to close the thread, but it made the thread even more worthless, and so even less likely to be dealt with by an admonition or another move. Closing it was the right decision. It should have been closed by **Gfactor** the first time. I like you, **I Love Me, Vol. I** , and you have one of my all-time favorite usernames, but you’re just making us DoMeBohemians look bad. ---
**Author:** ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-my-shark-jump-message-board-thread-closed/487952/42 "2009-03-04T12:43:37Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > This thread is a good example of how the SDMB has jumped the shark. Really. It ain’t funny. It’s just stupid. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-my-shark-jump-message-board-thread-closed/487952.md?page=2)