# I wanted to be everyone's hero...really I did! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 18, 2004, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanted-to-be-everyones-hero-really-i-did/264811 "2004-09-18T07:11:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Standup\_Karmic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Standup\_Karmic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Standup_Karmic)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2004, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanted-to-be-everyones-hero-really-i-did/264811/1 "2004-09-18T07:11:29Z")
I came home. Launced Firefox. Hit the SDMB link on the links bar. Lo and behold!! It’s back up. And so I started the first thread in MPSIMS, since nothing other than two stickies showed. And then I realized that it had _just_ come back up, and maybe nobody else knew, so figured maybe I could get myself as last poster on all forms. But then they came back. And then they came back in droves. And no matter how quick I moved and how hard I tried, it just was not to be mine. [This was the best I could do…](http://members.shaw.ca/thewordsmith/6of8.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2004, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanted-to-be-everyones-hero-really-i-did/264811/2 "2004-09-18T07:21:19Z")
You beat me by nine minutes. Console yourself with that. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2004, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanted-to-be-everyones-hero-really-i-did/264811/3 "2004-09-18T08:02:17Z")
If I hadn’t replied to your MPSIMS thread so quickly, showing I’m just as guilty, I’d say you have \*WAY \*too much time on your hands. ---
**Author:** ![tim314](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim314/32/3468_2.png) [@tim314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim314)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2004, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanted-to-be-everyones-hero-really-i-did/264811/4 "2004-09-18T08:14:25Z")
With the one minute mandatory delay between posts, I’m betting this feat has never been accomplished. ---
**Author:** ![six\_personalities](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@six\_personalities](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/six_personalities)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2004, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanted-to-be-everyones-hero-really-i-did/264811/5 "2004-09-18T12:15:08Z")
I DID IT!I DID IT!I DID IT! If you haven’t seen it,I have the screenshot and will post as soon as I can…Bow down and worship me! ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2004, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanted-to-be-everyones-hero-really-i-did/264811/6 "2004-09-18T14:35:20Z")
So you celebrated the fact that the board just recovered from a crash by flooding it with unnecessary posts? And then bragged about it? Good show, kid. Haj ---
**Author:** ![Standup\_Karmic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Standup\_Karmic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Standup_Karmic)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2004, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanted-to-be-everyones-hero-really-i-did/264811/7 "2004-09-18T15:06:42Z")
I heard from the girl at the ice cream shop that she heard from Tony, the guy that’s dating Lisa, that he heard from somone on the football team, that they heard from Tim in my art class, that he heard from Opalcat, that she heard from Tubadiva that the crash was because of a hard drive crash and that it had nothing to do with a taxed server and that therefore your lambasting is without basis and was totally wasted on me. ---
**Author:** ![six\_personalities](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@six\_personalities](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/six_personalities)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanted-to-be-everyones-hero-really-i-did/264811/8 "2004-09-20T09:31:39Z")
Hi Vicky 🙂 All posts were pertinent and contributed to the threads in question ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanted-to-be-everyones-hero-really-i-did/264811/9 "2004-09-20T18:28:26Z")
> [@tim314](#): > > With the one minute mandatory delay between posts, I’m betting this feat has never been accomplished. You could probably have gotten last post in six fora at the right time (probably just before/just after the downtime), but now that same downtime is no more, Iunno that it’s predictably possible. I have NFC how one would do a search for someone having last post in any forum at any point in time. I vote we _not_ flog the hamsters on this one. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanted-to-be-everyones-hero-really-i-did/264811/10 "2004-09-20T18:48:01Z")
I guess it _could_ be done at around 2 am EDT, though you’ll be fighting against posters overseas. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanted-to-be-everyones-hero-really-i-did/264811/11 "2004-09-20T21:52:56Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > So you celebrated the fact that the board just recovered from a crash by flooding it with unnecessary posts? And then bragged about it? Good show, kid. > > Haj Looks to me like he was performing a system stress test. Thumbs up for the initiative, **Standup**.