# Can't we get it straight?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-we-get-it-straight/660800>\
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**Created:** [June 12, 2013, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-we-get-it-straight/660800 "2013-06-12T11:18:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-we-get-it-straight/660800/21 "2013-06-12T18:14:59Z")

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> [@Bob Ducca](#):
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> Yeah, I’m fully gripped. Not sure why the condescending reply was called for, but whatever.

I don’t think it was all that condescending, and you were posting some uninformed and rather pointless speculation. That really doesn’t help anybody. Why encourage anybody to worry that the board is going away when there’s zero reason to think so? Quoting **Ed Zotti** from a couple of weeks ago:

> [@Board performance problems](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491/1):
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> Rising board traffic (currently ~14M pageviews/mo) coupled with the increasing frequency of outages, error messages and other glitches has led the STM tech staff to conclude we’ve outgrown our current server capacity. We’re getting estimates and investigating alternatives and I expect we’ll upgrade once all the info is in. Till then we request your patience and apologize for any inconvenience.

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