# How can a thread have more replies than views?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-a-thread-have-more-replies-than-views/642497
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**Created:** [November 29, 2012, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-a-thread-have-more-replies-than-views/642497 "2012-11-29T18:50:57Z")
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2012, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-a-thread-have-more-replies-than-views/642497/1 "2012-11-29T18:50:57Z")
Especially if it has zero views and multiple replies. I assume there’s some latency involved on the view tally, but why?
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2012, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-a-thread-have-more-replies-than-views/642497/2 "2012-11-30T00:30:04Z")
I’m certainly not the expert here, but I think the board server prioritizes functions when it gets overloaded and _perhaps_ it chose to do so in regard to your observation.
**tubadiva** would know more.
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### Author:  [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2012, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-a-thread-have-more-replies-than-views/642497/3 "2012-11-30T00:48:23Z")
I was under the impression a thread gets one view per visitor per day.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2012, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-a-thread-have-more-replies-than-views/642497/4 "2012-11-30T00:53:11Z")
Is it a very old thread? Early versions of the message board software didn’t track views at all, and so when we upgraded to a version that did, all those threads had zeroes in the “views” column.
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2012, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-a-thread-have-more-replies-than-views/642497/5 "2012-11-30T00:54:32Z")
Maybe the responders had their eyes closed.
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2012, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-a-thread-have-more-replies-than-views/642497/6 "2012-11-30T01:26:54Z")
> [@Chronos](#):
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> Is it a very old thread? Early versions of the message board software didn’t track views at all, and so when we upgraded to a version that did, all those threads had zeroes in the “views” column.
No, in fact I see it all the time. Today I had an OP with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 replies, and zero views.
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### Author:  [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2012, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-a-thread-have-more-replies-than-views/642497/7 "2012-11-30T08:34:16Z")
> [@samclem](#):
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> I’m certainly not the expert here, but I think the board server prioritizes functions when it gets overloaded and _perhaps_ it chose to do so in regard to your observation.
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> **tubadiva** would know more.
Yes, the system does not always update views in real time. This is especially true when the board is getting a lot of action; then the system will focus on rendering pages to the exclusion of most everything else.
When things aren’t so hectic the system catches up with itself. Usually it doesn’t take a very long time but especially in times of stress on the system it might be a little while before the count matches what you expect to see.
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### Author:  [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2012, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-a-thread-have-more-replies-than-views/642497/8 "2012-11-30T16:03:10Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#):
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> This is especially true when the board is getting a lot of action
If this thread is rockin’, don’t bother knockin’!
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### Author:  [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2012, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-a-thread-have-more-replies-than-views/642497/9 "2012-11-30T21:25:23Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#):
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> This is especially true when the board is getting a lot of action; .
I wish I was getting a lot of action.
Please resume normal transmissions.
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2012, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-a-thread-have-more-replies-than-views/642497/10 "2012-12-01T00:27:28Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#):
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> YThis is especially true when the board is getting a lot of action;
Hey Board, how _you_ doin’?
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2012, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-a-thread-have-more-replies-than-views/642497/11 "2012-12-01T00:32:42Z")
SDMB, meet BDSM.
ETA: Thanks **TubaDiva**.
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### Author:  [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2012, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-a-thread-have-more-replies-than-views/642497/12 "2012-12-01T01:38:10Z")
What, I have to _read_ them as well now?
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2012, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-a-thread-have-more-replies-than-views/642497/13 "2012-12-01T03:12:52Z")
> [@Leaffan](#):
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> No, in fact I see it all the time. Today I had an OP with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 replies, and zero views.
I see this all the time too.
> [@Cicero](#):
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> I wish I was getting a lot of action.
Is that some spam in your pocket or are you just happy to see us?
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### Author:  [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2012, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-a-thread-have-more-replies-than-views/642497/14 "2012-12-03T11:07:40Z")
I am an unregistered post perv.