# You know what this board needs? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 4, 2010, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-what-this-board-needs/527637 "2010-02-04T04:09:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dhkendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-what-this-board-needs/527637/1 "2010-02-04T04:09:02Z")
In [this post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12075178&postcount=105) something another poster said made me think about a good thing to maybe set up for the board, a member map. It would be like Arnold’s photo gallery, ie on a totally voluntary basis and serve as a emans of member identification - you could go there if you can’t remember where a poster is from (and it either doesn’t show because they’re not a paid member or they have something cryptic for location) so you can keep that in mind for your replies (like Diogenes could have used when replying to jayjay upthread) and, if you want to pick a particular user’s brains about something based on their location (like “Oh, I see **UserX** lives in Haiti, I wonder if he’s all right after the quake?” or “Oh, I see **UserY** lives in Nigeria, I wonder if they get 419 scams like the rest of us?”) it would make it easier. Again, as I said, it would be completely voluntary like Arnold’s gallery so it wouldn’t take away from those who deliberately don’t want to be found … Just an idea, but it should be easy to implement, I’ve seen other places that have member maps (and I’ve even heard of one board that uses it to help counter board spam (“hmmm, this new member put a German location on the map, but he has a Japanese IP address. Better watch this one carefully.”) ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-what-this-board-needs/527637/2 "2010-02-04T04:11:23Z")
This board needs a bar. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-what-this-board-needs/527637/3 "2010-02-04T04:18:37Z")
I’m aware of at least two such projects in the past, put together by interested posters. However, I am not aware of anyone who has tried to do this recently. ---
**Author:** ![srzss05](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@srzss05](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/srzss05)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-what-this-board-needs/527637/4 "2010-02-04T04:41:08Z")
How would this be any different than checking the poster’s member page? If they don’t want to put a location there, I think it unlikely they would participate in a map program. ---
**Author:** ![Monstera\_deliciosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monstera_deliciosa/32/109_2.png) [@Monstera\_deliciosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstera_deliciosa)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-what-this-board-needs/527637/5 "2010-02-04T05:47:15Z")
…a sound thrashing? Sorry, that’s the standard reply in my household if anybody asks “Do you know what I need?”🙂 Seriously though, I have participated in those kinds of maps at a few forums over the years, but frankly once having done so, never ever looked at the things again. And I don’t recall anyone ever talking about them again after the original post fades away, so I think there is a tendency for them to be started and then more or less abandoned. ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-what-this-board-needs/527637/6 "2010-02-04T07:20:27Z")
> [@Monstera\_deliciosa](#): > > Seriously though, I have participated in those kinds of maps at a few forums over the years, but frankly once having done so, never ever looked at the things again. And I don’t recall anyone ever talking about them again after the original post fades away, so I think there is a tendency for them to be started and then more or less abandoned. This. As **Colibri** mentioned, this has been done at least twice that I know of and both faded quickly. And looking through my SDMB links, I find I have forgotten a few attempts. We have had a [Google map](http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=110238373354834723387.0004448c2d954d5a5c647&ll=11.98005,-79.068689&spn=157.168684,360&z=1), a [Frappr map](http://www.frappr.com/sdmb), a map on [Teeming Millions](http://maps.teemingmillions.com/), and a couple, **Find a Doper!** and **Dopers of the World Unite!** , that now give a 404 error. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-what-this-board-needs/527637/7 "2010-02-04T14:42:13Z")
If enough people are really interested in this, I could try to manage it and incoporate it somehow into the picture gallery, i.e. if you provide a map location then there would be a link to the SDMB Google Map from your photo gallery page. But I’m not sure there is really a need for this seeing as how we have a location field available in our profiles. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-what-this-board-needs/527637/8 "2010-02-04T15:28:44Z")
> [@Kolga](#): > > This board needs a bar. Hear, hear! ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-what-this-board-needs/527637/9 "2010-02-04T19:50:00Z")
> [@Arnold\_Winkelried](#): > > If enough people are really interested in this, I could try to manage it and incoporate it somehow into the picture gallery, i.e. if you provide a map location then there would be a link to the SDMB Google Map from your photo gallery page. > But I’m not sure there is really a need for this seeing as how we have a location field available in our profiles. Locations in profiles are helpful if you want to look up the location of an individual. However, if you want to find out if there are Dopers from your hometown or in the country you’re planning to visit, going through profiles is an awfully tedious way to glean that info. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-what-this-board-needs/527637/10 "2010-02-04T19:56:45Z")
> [@Kolga](#): > > This board needs a bar. It has a bar, but, like IRL bars, you get cut off when you’re too drunk to post. Friends don’t let friends post drunk. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-what-this-board-needs/527637/11 "2010-02-04T20:20:48Z")
Well, I was going to say scantily-attired cheerleaders. But a map would be nice too. ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-what-this-board-needs/527637/12 "2010-02-04T20:28:07Z")
> [@Kolga](#): > > This board needs a bar. So we can lower it? ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2010, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-what-this-board-needs/527637/13 "2010-02-05T02:40:01Z")
Two SDMB members walk into a bar. The third one ducked. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2010, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-what-this-board-needs/527637/14 "2010-02-05T15:08:31Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > Two SDMB members walk into a bar. The third one ducked. I was about to post my favorite bar joke… but then I realized I might get a few people mad at me for it… damn trying not to insult people I don’t know! ---
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-what-this-board-needs/527637/15 "2010-02-06T06:52:05Z")
**More Cow Bell !!!** ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-what-this-board-needs/527637/16 "2010-02-06T06:59:55Z")
A good t-shirt. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-what-this-board-needs/527637/17 "2010-02-06T07:12:50Z")
Love, sweet love. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-what-this-board-needs/527637/18 "2010-02-06T07:20:57Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > Originally Posted by Kolga > > This board needs a bar. > > Hear, hear! How about here, here! ---
**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:** [February 6, 2010, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-what-this-board-needs/527637/19 "2010-02-06T11:28:47Z")
> [@](#): > > You know what this board needs? More Pie! I love Pie! This Board needs a Pie Dispenser! \*\*dhkendall \*\* --when come back, bring Pie! ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-what-this-board-needs/527637/20 "2010-02-06T19:34:29Z")
an enema. or a bar. With buffalo wings. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-what-this-board-needs/527637.md?page=2)