Board Announcements

Over the next two years we will gradually be upgrading the board's HTML, so it will be fully HTML5-compliant by the end of 2012. Next week may see some downtime as we upgrade the board from HTML4.15 to the HTML4.20 specification. Here's a screenshot from our test database:

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from now on: no guff

Quite a number of you have complained about the $14.99 monthly posting fee, which is why I'm pleased to announce our new pay-per-post plan. Starting December 15th, members who haven't paid the monthly fee will be allowed to board for just 25 cents per post, with an extra fee for emoticons. In addition to providing savings to our budget-conscious boarders, we believe this plan will dramatically increase the quality of their posts, so everybody will benefit. More details will be included with your ...

I instituted this rule a couple years ago, but apparently it's just not getting through to some of you, so it bears repeating: murder is a bannable offense!!! If you murder someone, your forum account WILL be banned. That is all.

Pending final authorization from department heads, No Homers will be restructured into 26 different forums, one for each letter of the alphabet. All topics starting with the letter D - i.e. dating, dental plans, democracy, Dane Cook, Dexter, "Duffless" - will now go into the D forum. Same for the other letters, obviously. Anyone attempting to board about something with numbers or special characters, such as 21 Jump Street or !!!, will be banned. That is the new law.