# hello?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello/33243>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [September 14, 2000, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello/33243 "2000-09-14T22:43:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2000, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello/33243/1 "2000-09-14T22:43:30Z")

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I checked my post count and it says 737. No way! It was 757 this mornign,. Help.

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**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2000, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello/33243/2 "2000-09-14T22:44:42Z")

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there was a notice about the mods were going to delete a bunch of old threads and this would reduce folks post count. check out ABTMB. (too lazy to look up the thread)

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**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2000, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello/33243/3 "2000-09-14T22:47:37Z")

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Oh No! After I wroked so hard to get it up there! AAAHHHHHH!  
Sigh. Must get to 1,000.☹

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**Author:** ![ShakeNBake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@ShakeNBake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShakeNBake)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2000, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello/33243/4 "2000-09-14T23:17:39Z")

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I hope it was to speed something up.  
When it was finally back on line, things still seemed slow though.

Did we get any new features?

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello/33243/5 "2000-09-15T02:40:25Z")

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We had a problem with the database.

It’s still being worked on and we’ll be down for a short period tomorrow morning as well.

Please understand that we’re working as fast as we can and so is the system, it does get slower at peak times . . . and I don’t know what to tell you about that.

your humble TubaDiva  
Administrator

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**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello/33243/6 "2000-09-15T04:24:52Z")

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Dammit, I’m getting close to 1000 and you have to take away 15 or so of my posts? Those were words of incredible wisdom, every single one.

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**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello/33243/7 "2000-09-15T15:15:25Z")

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Well, I am catching up now…

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**Author:** ![barflyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dc4da7/32.png) [@barflyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barflyer)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello/33243/8 "2000-09-15T16:51:03Z")

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I posted 50 times my first day. You can too.  
Join the **Post Club for Men (better make that Persons)**, and cure that thinning post rate.

You too can have the post rate women (oops, people) admire and respect!

I’m not just the founder, I’m the only member so far.