Is it any thread deliberately created to have a title very similar to an existing thread, or is it something more specific?
Posted by Stephan (Member # 7549) on :
Drug dealers use this board. They create dobies to let us know when they have something for sale. They make them humorous to throw off the moderator.
Posted by Occasional (Member # 5860) on :
Dobies started with a poster with that nick who would write threads with titles very nearly like others. It used to be that there was a link of related interest that paradied the original one.
There was an incident where Dobie "flashed" the Forum with several threads at once, causing system problems. Dobie was quickly banned.
Posted by docmagik (Member # 1131) on :
Dobie's just this guy, you know?
Posted by Nick (Member # 4311) on :
I remember him, everybody thought he spelled the Harry Potter character "Dobby" wrong.
Posted by Valentine014 (Member # 5981) on :
Doesn't a dobie usually include a link?
Posted by Qaz (Member # 10298) on :
quote: Drug dealers use this board. They create dobies to let us know when they have something for sale. They make them humorous to throw off the moderator.
Erratum: that would be for the thread "What is a doobie?"
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
Val, it should.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
A dobie is an abomination before God.
Except when I make one. Then it's funny.
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
quote:Originally posted by Nick: I remember him, everybody thought he spelled the Harry Potter character "Dobby" wrong.
Actually, Dobie's sn predated the HP character Dobby.
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
A dobie Posted by littlemissattitude (Member # 4514) on :
I would have thought that this was obvious. Since it isn't, this is a Dobie.
Sheesh. Am I the only old one around here?
Posted by steven (Member # 8099) on :
"A dobie is an abomination before God.
Except when I make one. Then it's funny."
Actually, that is, in fact, a very important part of most dobies. "I", in the quoted statement, meaning "the person making the dobie." IMHO.
[ May 19, 2007, 12:53 AM: Message edited by: steven ]
Posted by RunningBear (Member # 8477) on :
a dobie is a claylike material that was used in parts of the southwestern us and mexico to construct houses.