# You're gone for a month and everything changes **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 17, 2000, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-gone-for-a-month-and-everything-changes/12864 "2000-01-17T20:30:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SterlingNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@SterlingNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SterlingNorth)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-gone-for-a-month-and-everything-changes/12864/1 "2000-01-17T20:30:00Z")
Flaming Folders, board wars, :eek: :mad: :rolleyes: Y2K. What have you’ve been doing while I was gone? ---
**Author:** ![SterlingNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@SterlingNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SterlingNorth)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-gone-for-a-month-and-everything-changes/12864/2 "2000-01-17T20:33:00Z")
Oh yeah, Happy New Year’s to y’all. [http://mercury.spaceports.com/~wsidemc/construction/picture.html](http://mercury.spaceports.com/~wsidemc/construction/picture.html)😃 ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-gone-for-a-month-and-everything-changes/12864/3 "2000-01-17T20:35:00Z")
Sterling, welcome back. Cute link. ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-gone-for-a-month-and-everything-changes/12864/4 "2000-01-17T20:40:00Z")
Repent, sinner. * * * You are now leaving a “Smiley-free zone”! A public service message brought to you by G.R.O.S.S. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-gone-for-a-month-and-everything-changes/12864/5 "2000-01-17T20:57:00Z")
Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place. Revelation 2:5 By the way Sterling, you aren’t the only one to completely destroy a thread anymore. [http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000485.html](http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000485.html) ## Welcome back. That it is unwise to be heedless ourselves while we are giving advice to others, I will show in a few lines. – Phædrus – ---
**Author:** ![Sycorax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@Sycorax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sycorax)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-gone-for-a-month-and-everything-changes/12864/6 "2000-01-17T20:57:00Z")
Yeah, you missed a lot! The flaming folders really caused an uproar. They had these hokey animated flames on the topic folders that had more than 15 responses. The jumping, flickering flames drove most of us nuts :eek: Much to my surprise, after I started a crusade on it, they doused them! Ed Zotti even got involved. And here I didn’t think the teeming millions had any influence on SDMB design :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-gone-for-a-month-and-everything-changes/12864/7 "2000-01-18T00:33:00Z")
Yay, Sterling! I was awondering what happened to you. Welcome Back. ---
**Author:** ![SterlingNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@SterlingNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SterlingNorth)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-gone-for-a-month-and-everything-changes/12864/8 "2000-01-18T04:14:00Z")
UncleBeer: Wow a Netscape-compatible screw-up. I’m impressed. Sycorax: I seen those flaming folders on some other message boards. But they got drowned out by the miscellaneous hodge-podge of icons. > [@](#): > > (ADMIN: I noticed you haven’t done the multi-moderator upgrade. If you want a test case, you can check out (of all places) [The Y2K Doomsday Board.](http://www.michaelhyatt.com/cgibin/ubbcgi/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro) Michael Hyatt’s book encourged me to make my animated gif. ChiefScott: WHOOSH me! I don’t quite follow. Everyone else, I didn’t know you cared. ## _“I am anticipating at least a one-year disruption in the delivery of basic goods and services.”_ [Michael Hyatt](http://www.michaelhyatt.com) inspiration for my graphic. **SterlingNorth** Like _you_ know!!! ---
**Author:** ![Chrome\_Toaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Chrome\_Toaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chrome_Toaster)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-gone-for-a-month-and-everything-changes/12864/9 "2000-01-18T06:03:00Z")
## Well, I was gone for a little less than a month, and was surprised to see all of the changes on this little MB. Did we miss any really noteworthy topics? (just so I don’t have to wade through 13 pages of topics, any must sees? “Sorry, I’m just not myself today… Maybe I’m you.” Chrome Toaster ---
**Author:** ![SterlingNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@SterlingNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SterlingNorth)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-gone-for-a-month-and-everything-changes/12864/10 "2000-01-19T00:56:00Z")
I’m not sure. A couple of (possibly) prools came and made racist assertions. There was a scuffle with a few people from the Left Behind MB (though some have become good friends). That’s all I can tell right now. ---
**Author:** ![White\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f19dbf/32.png) [@White\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-gone-for-a-month-and-everything-changes/12864/11 "2000-01-19T05:44:00Z")
Hey Sterling, I’ve been gone a while, too. When you find out what’s been happening, let me know. I’m a little bit lost on the recent stuff. * * * **White Wolf** Sometimes sanity takes vacation time on me. - Savage Garden ---
**Author:** ![the\_Scarlet\_Pimpernel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f1d935/32.png) [@the\_Scarlet\_Pimpernel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_Scarlet_Pimpernel)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-gone-for-a-month-and-everything-changes/12864/12 "2000-01-19T15:45:00Z")
Ive been here the whole time, and I _still_ dont know what’s happening. * * * Hand me my nose ring, show me the mosh pit!