# 300 seconds? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 4, 2008, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/300-seconds/448037 "2008-05-04T20:00:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quasimodal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/57b2e6/32.png) [@Quasimodal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodal)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2008, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/300-seconds/448037/1 "2008-05-04T20:00:17Z")
Am I doing something wrong? I just resubscribed to the dope after a six month hiatus. Now I have to wait 300 seconds between search requests? Thats five minutes! I thought perhaps after six months, subscription fees, and seemingly more advertising all the time the Dope would see some sort of boost in performance. By the way I’m typing this rant mostly to kill time between my search requests… ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2008, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/300-seconds/448037/2 "2008-05-04T20:03:14Z")
Ha! You’re just lucky you missed the loss of the search function all together. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2008, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/300-seconds/448037/3 "2008-05-04T20:04:27Z")
Sucker. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2008, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/300-seconds/448037/4 "2008-05-04T20:06:53Z")
[QUOTE=Quasimodal] Am I doing something wrong? I just resubscribed to the dope after a six month hiatus. Now I have to wait 300 seconds between search requests? Thats five minutes! I thought perhaps after six months, subscription fees, and seemingly more advertising all the time the Dope would see some sort of boost in performance. By the way I’m typing this rant mostly to kill time between my search requests… [/QUOTE] Welcom back! Your dreams were your ticket out. Welcome back to that same old place that you laughed about. The same except for the 5 minute search. Oh and the soon to be free again thingee. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/300-seconds/448037/5 "2008-05-04T20:33:39Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by **Biggirl** > > Welcom back! Your dreams were your ticket out. Welcome back to that same old place that you laughed about Thanks for the earworm… And now I’ll be thinking about Gabe Kaplan’s hot-for-the-70s wife all day too. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2008, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/300-seconds/448037/6 "2008-05-04T20:47:45Z")
[QUOTE=Quasimodal] I thought perhaps after six months, subscription fees, and seemingly more advertising all the time the Dope would see some sort of boost in performance. [/QUOTE] TPTB swear that things will be improving shortly with the installation of a server dedicated to handling searches, and when that happens, the time between searches will be reduced. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2008, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/300-seconds/448037/7 "2008-05-04T20:58:08Z")
And tuppence a week, and jam every other day. ---
**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:** [May 4, 2008, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/300-seconds/448037/8 "2008-05-04T21:24:25Z")
Next he’ll be wanted more porridge. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2008, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/300-seconds/448037/9 "2008-05-04T21:25:24Z")
[QUOTE=Rysto] TPTB swear that things will be improving shortly with the installation of a server dedicated to handling searches, and when that happens, the time between searches will be reduced. [/QUOTE] - visualizes a chorus line of dancing hamsters clad in black net hosiery, backing up a little redhaired moppet\* “Tomorrow, tomorrow They’ll upgrade it tomorrow It’s only a dream away!” ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2008, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/300-seconds/448037/10 "2008-05-04T22:32:37Z")
“It’s very good jam,” said the Queen. “Well, I don’t want it _today_, at any rate.” “You couldn’t have it if you did want it,”, the Queen said. “The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.” “It _must_ come sometimes to ‘jam today,’” Alice objected. “No, it can’t,” said the Queen. “It’s jam every _other_ day: today isn’t any _other_ day, you know.” _Through The Looking Glass_, Lewis Carroll ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2008, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/300-seconds/448037/11 "2008-05-05T11:19:35Z")
I’m going to bring manufacturing jobs back to Detroit. Plus, I have an aunt who lives where you are, and she taught me how to watch people pump gas in your area. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2008, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/300-seconds/448037/12 "2008-05-05T13:15:02Z")
[QUOTE=Polycarp] “Tomorrow, tomorrow They’ll upgrade it tomorrow It’s only a dream away!” [/QUOTE] I think you’ve just violated the “don’t be a jerk” rule. Cute little redheaded snots with annoying voices GET OUT OF MY HEAD! ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2008, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/300-seconds/448037/13 "2008-05-05T16:23:41Z")
I already gave up trying to post a link to help someone, because after my third search I struck out. I wasn’t spending anymore time fucking with that. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2008, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/300-seconds/448037/14 "2008-05-05T16:39:26Z")
[QUOTE=Southern Yankee] Thanks for the earworm… And now I’ll be thinking about Gabe Kaplan’s hot-for-the-70s wife all day too. [/QUOTE] > [@tdn](#): > > Cute little redheaded snots with annoying voices GET OUT OF MY HEAD! This is the thread that never ends. It just goes on and on, my friends. Some people started reading it not knowing what it was and now they will be thinking about it forever-- just because. . .. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2008, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/300-seconds/448037/15 "2008-05-05T16:48:16Z")
[QUOTE=Scissorjack] “It’s very good jam,” said the Queen. “Well, I don’t want it _today_, at any rate.” “You couldn’t have it if you did want it,”, the Queen said. “The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.” “It _must_ come sometimes to ‘jam today,’” Alice objected. “No, it can’t,” said the Queen. “It’s jam every _other_ day: today isn’t any _other_ day, you know.” _Through The Looking Glass_, Lewis Carroll [/QUOTE] Never jam today. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/300-seconds/448037/16 "2008-05-09T05:42:38Z")
Oh, well, so what. It annoys me too, a little, but it’s OK if it helps board performance. Not that I’m sure it does, but since they’re going back to free membership, it doesn’t seem right to complain. Maybe someday they’ll improve the search function so searches are categorized as to difficulty and allow easy searches to be run more often. For instance, a search of just thread titles is presumably less resource intensive than one that searches the thread texts, and a search over the last week is presumably easier than one over all available threads. ---
**Author:** ![Martiju](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@Martiju](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martiju)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/300-seconds/448037/17 "2008-05-09T12:38:36Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] Never jam today. [/QUOTE] As Bob Marley never used to say…