# How often do you visit SD boards? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 2, 2000, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-visit-sd-boards/43717 "2000-12-02T15:08:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-visit-sd-boards/43717/21 "2000-12-04T02:54:09Z")
I found this wonderous place about the same time I was looking at quiting my last job. I spent a **lot** of time on it then. Now, I’m theoretically not supposed to be online save work related matters and I really should obey that, since I’m surfing from a clients network (usually). I finally had the inspiration to get NetZero and FreeLane (deciding which one I like) so I can log on at home for the first time…trouble. I still spend hours a day online, which is to say, _here_ and that’s probably not going to get better with home access. \ ---
**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-visit-sd-boards/43717/22 "2000-12-04T03:39:29Z")
At work, I do a lot of support for remote unix systems, so there’s lots of times when I’m just hanging on the phone while a customer runs to a server room to do something. I’ll use that time to check out the boards. At least that’s what I’ll tell my boss if he ever asks 🙂 With a cable modem at home, it’s easy to check in periodically at night, like now… ---
**Author:** ![Primaflora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Primaflora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Primaflora)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-visit-sd-boards/43717/23 "2000-12-04T05:36:16Z")
I’m at home. With small children. And cable. I like to think of it as my sanity maintenance. yes there really is a world out there ---
**Author:** ![tygre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@tygre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tygre)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-visit-sd-boards/43717/24 "2000-12-04T05:58:08Z")
I work mostly at home, and have a dedicated connection, so I check the boards about 3-4 times a day. Or if both kids go down for naps at the same time, I log on then. I can quit any time. Really. I mean that. –tygre ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-visit-sd-boards/43717/25 "2000-12-04T21:28:51Z")
I am also something of an underworked administrative assistant, so I usually have the boards open all day. I’m not always reading or posting, but I’ve got my browser glued here. ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-visit-sd-boards/43717/26 "2000-12-04T22:24:19Z")
Immediately after skool (1-2pm-ish), and 15 minutes of every hour thereafter 'till 10:00 pm or so. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2000, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-visit-sd-boards/43717/27 "2000-12-05T01:27:09Z")
I come here almost exclusively from work. I have a _lot_ of free time at my job, and when I’m not studying, I’m here. Or, more accurately, when I can pull myself away from here, I can sometimes make myself study. Unless #straightdope is especially entertaining… ---
**Author:** ![Carina42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Carina42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carina42)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2000, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-visit-sd-boards/43717/28 "2000-12-05T01:32:35Z")
## quote: Originally posted by Carina42 I don’t get the impression this is a community of folks who spends days on end hunched in front of a monitor. * * * ::::::::::Anti hunched over and squinting at her monitor::::: We must be giving you the WRONG impression somehow! Haha. I’m beinning to agree with Anti! 🙂 I can see how this could get addicting. Perhaps I’m lucky I have a job that keeps me away from computers! ---
**Author:** ![Anti\_Pro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Anti\_Pro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anti_Pro)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2000, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-visit-sd-boards/43717/29 "2000-12-05T03:35:07Z")
> [@](#): > > ## \*Originally posted by Carina42 \* \*\* quote: > > Originally posted by Carina42 > I don’t get the impression this is a community of folks who spends days on end hunched in front of a monitor. > > * * * > > ::::::::::Anti hunched over and squinting at her monitor::::: > > We must be giving you the WRONG impression somehow! > Haha. I’m beinning to agree with Anti! 🙂 > > I can see how this could get addicting. Perhaps I’m lucky I have a job that keeps me away from computers! \*\* Ha Ha!! But we have you NOW, my dear, you’ll never get away!!! [anti’s most evilest laugh ;)] ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2000, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-visit-sd-boards/43717/30 "2000-12-05T05:43:38Z")
_Visit?_ You mean I’m not required to be here 24 hours a day?? ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2000, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-visit-sd-boards/43717/31 "2000-12-05T18:00:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by slythe \* > \*\*_Visit?_ > You mean I’m not required to be here 24 hours a day?? > \*\* **slythe** , you know perfectly well the rules are different for mods! ---
**Author:** ![Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bottle_of_Smoke)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2000, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-visit-sd-boards/43717/32 "2000-12-05T18:05:19Z")
I don’t have a computer at home, so I only post during the day (although I have occasionally posted late at night from my folks’ house if we are visiting them for the weekend). I usually pop in and out a few times during the day. I’m most likely to be on in the morning (I pop in after I have checked my email, run my morning reports, etc), at lunch (I eat at my desk most days, so I check the boards while I’m munching my sandwich), and late afternoons when everybody here starts to head home. Some days I post more than others. It really depends on how busy I am at work. I’ve gone many days without even checking the boards and then suddenly I will have a day where things are slow and I manage to squeeze in a bunch of posts. I’ve been registered for about six months and have around 700 posts, so that’s between 3-4 posts per day on average. ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2000, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-visit-sd-boards/43717/33 "2000-12-05T20:05:52Z")
Probably more than I should. I am the Queen of Alt+Tab. I only have a computer at work and since I’m not super busy here, I can spend lots of time surfing. Actually, I’ve been pretty busy the past couple days and will be since I have projects coming due so I haven’t been on as much as I usually am. My browser window is almost always open. However, those projects didn’t prevent me from finally logging on to Napster and joining up there. Still a little mystified by that one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-visit-sd-boards/43717.md?page=1)