The 100 Hour Board is a student organization at Brigham Young University (BYU). The 100 Hour Board gets its name from its purpose: to answer any question within 100 hours.

BYU students and non-students alike can ask almost any question. The name of the Board states that a submission will be answered within 100 hours; however, the Board has been known to often take longer to answer questions based on the level of difficulty. The Board sometimes answers questions in a humorous, witty, and researched manner. Use of the Board is free, and the staff is comprised of unpaid student volunteers. For reasons that remain unclear, registration is now required in order to be able to submit questions. These questions can include most topics such as trivia, abstract scientific concepts, politics, dating advice, and LDS Church doctrine. The Board has a vast, searcheable archive, and those wishing to submit a question are strongly encouraged to search the archives first to see if the query has been answered before. Questions are answered by Board writers, who for the most part remain anonymous. There are about 31 Board writers. Most lucky students who attain this coveted position stay until they graduate from BYU. Under the recent administration several writers have been purged from duty with trivial reasons. BYUSA left a legacy.

The 100 Hour Board is administered by the BYU Linguistics department as a resource for Linguistics majors and others to study current popular English usage. All submissions, therefore, become the property of the Linguistics department to be used at its discretion. In other words, students' questions and responses have the potential to become research paper fodder.

One of the many mysteries of the 100 Hour Board is how to become a writer for it. Although all writers are volunteers, the application process is kept a secret. Several writers are Linguistics majors; many, however, are not. If someone asks the 100 Hour Board how to become a writer, they will most likely be told to search the board's archives. In the last several months, several writers have been purged from duty

History

The 100 Hour Board originally started in 1995 as a physical board in the Wilkinson Center (BYU's Student Center). Its primary function was to serve as a "Suggestion Box" for the Student Advisory Council (SAC) to better discern the issues that students were worried about. In 1998 the first documented "humor" or non-serious question was asked, which began a process which would eventually lead to the 100 Hour Board's popularization. In the year 2000 the first online version of the 100 Hour Board was released. Over the next few years the website for the 100 Hour Board went through several revisions, as well as changes in sponsorship. The 100 Hour Board is currently sponsored by the Linguistics department.

External links

100 Hour Board

The 100 Hour Board Blog

Board Addicts Anonymous (BAA)