# Are we up?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-up/457907
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [July 28, 2008, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-up/457907 "2008-07-28T15:08:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
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### Author:  [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2008, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-up/457907/1 "2008-07-28T15:08:39Z")
I see check posts being made. Are we up and running? Hope hope :eek:
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### Author:  [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2008, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-up/457907/2 "2008-07-28T15:11:21Z")
Test…test…1…2…3.
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### Author:  [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2008, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-up/457907/3 "2008-07-28T15:12:52Z")
Checking in…
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### Author:  [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2008, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-up/457907/4 "2008-07-28T15:13:45Z")
[QUOTE=DSYoungEsq]
I see check posts being made. Are we up and running? Hope hope :eek:
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Don’t post any weighty questions in GQ or heavy queries in GD; it could bring it down again. Light-weight and frivolous topics only.
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### Author:  [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2008, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-up/457907/5 "2008-07-28T15:16:58Z")
[QUOTE=Musicat]
Don’t post any weighty questions in GQ or heavy queries in GD; it could bring it down again. Light-weight and frivolous topics only.
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Damn, there go all the political threads… :smack:
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### Author:  [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2008, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-up/457907/6 "2008-07-28T15:21:39Z")
I just noticed something disturbing. In my User Control Panel are two threads I have been involved with this AM (this one is one), and each show several replies, but ZERO views. That’s not right, is it? Shouldn’t a reply generate at least one view? How can you reply if you haven’t viewed the thread first? Maybe some counter is asleep?
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### Author:  [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2008, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-up/457907/7 "2008-07-28T15:24:45Z")
Is life without the SDMB even worth living?
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2008, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-up/457907/8 "2008-07-28T15:46:45Z")
For the past two days, I must admit, I’ve wondered…
P.S. Thanks to those who brought the Dope back!
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### Author:  [@essell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/essell)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2008, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-up/457907/9 "2008-07-28T15:58:14Z")
We’re back up!
**Jerry** you’re like Server Viagra.
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2008, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-up/457907/10 "2008-07-28T16:03:03Z")
[QUOTE=essell]
We’re back up!
**Jerry** you’re like Server Viagra.
Thanks.
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+1 - thanks Jerry!
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### Author:  [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2008, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-up/457907/11 "2008-07-28T16:03:42Z")
[QUOTE=Musicat]
I just noticed something disturbing. In my User Control Panel are two threads I have been involved with this AM (this one is one), and each show several replies, but ZERO views. That’s not right, is it? Shouldn’t a reply generate at least one view? How can you reply if you haven’t viewed the thread first? Maybe some counter is asleep?
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Looks like the counters have waked up. They now look normal in my CP. Perhaps they were being restored on a low-priority basis.
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2008, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-up/457907/12 "2008-07-28T16:31:46Z")
[QUOTE=DSYoungEsq]
Are we up and running?
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Still no upgrade, though; I just see a lot of threads full of the same old shit.
Upgrades will also improve the content, right? 😉
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### Author:  [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2008, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-up/457907/13 "2008-07-28T16:51:47Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise]
Still no upgrade, though; I just see a lot of threads full of the same old shit.
Upgrades will also improve the content, right? 😉
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Um, I seriously fail to recall the upgrade in content with the last server upgrade. But then, I’m old and have classic CRS. 😃
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### Author:  [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2008, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-up/457907/14 "2008-07-28T17:01:33Z")
> [@](#):
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> Are we up?
Apparently. But are we in yet?
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2008, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-up/457907/15 "2008-07-28T17:10:01Z")
[QUOTE=DSYoungEsq]
Damn, there go all the political threads… :smack:
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You say that like it’s a bad thing …
Thanks, Jerry!
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### Author:  [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2008, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-up/457907/16 "2008-07-28T17:10:51Z")
Thy don’t call it the Dope for nothing, ya know? I was having withdrawal symptoms.
[QUOTE=Baldwin]
Is life without the SDMB even worth living?
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And somebody pls. shoot Susan.
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2008, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-up/457907/17 "2008-07-28T21:58:57Z")
[QUOTE=DSYoungEsq]
Are we up?
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As the Ladies will tell you, _some_ of us are _almost always_ up.
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### Author:  [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2008, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-up/457907/18 "2008-07-29T05:55:35Z")
[QUOTE=DSYoungEsq]
Damn, there go all the political threads… :smack:
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I dunno. Recently they have been a lot more frothy than heavy.
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### Author:  [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2008, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-up/457907/19 "2008-07-29T10:10:10Z")
[QUOTE=tomndebb]
I dunno. Recently they have been a lot more frothy than heavy.
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Oh, come on. You can’t say, “Oh, Barack, how do I love thee, the gentle curve of your big floppy ears, the earnestness of your gaze halfway to heaven,” isn’t intense, hard-hitting political debate.