# Is it ME or is the SDMB on turtle speed? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 8, 2003, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or-is-the-sdmb-on-turtle-speed/147234 "2003-01-08T02:28:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SandWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8491ac/32.png) [@SandWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandWriter)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or-is-the-sdmb-on-turtle-speed/147234/1 "2003-01-08T02:28:38Z")
that’s about it. It’s taking forever to bring up a thread or post a reply. What is going on? ---
**Author:** ![SC\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@SC\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SC_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or-is-the-sdmb-on-turtle-speed/147234/2 "2003-01-08T02:36:56Z")
We’ve been Slashdotted. /. linked to the “LotR by other authors” thread over in cafe society. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or-is-the-sdmb-on-turtle-speed/147234/3 "2003-01-08T02:37:18Z")
A couple other sites, including the popular “Slashdot” has referenced a thread here, the one on Cafe Society about Lord Of The Rings as if written by other people. I think that’s really hammered the site. ---
**Author:** ![typhoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ed8c4c/32.png) [@typhoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typhoon)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or-is-the-sdmb-on-turtle-speed/147234/4 "2003-01-08T02:39:43Z")
God save us all. Whoever submitted that link to Slashdot needs to be slapped around a bit. ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or-is-the-sdmb-on-turtle-speed/147234/5 "2003-01-08T02:58:14Z")
I was wondering why that thread had over 147,000 views. ---
**Author:** ![SandWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8491ac/32.png) [@SandWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandWriter)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or-is-the-sdmb-on-turtle-speed/147234/6 "2003-01-08T03:06:41Z")
WTF, can we jettison that thread for the sake of the mother ship? WTF is slash dot? p.s. WTF stand for What the fuck!!! p.p.s. It was a rhetorical quesiton. I’ll figure it out ---
**Author:** ![Themis00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/13edae/32.png) [@Themis00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Themis00)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or-is-the-sdmb-on-turtle-speed/147234/7 "2003-01-08T03:23:38Z")
Amen! This board is a little slow for my standards, since my mouth moves so fast. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or-is-the-sdmb-on-turtle-speed/147234/8 "2003-01-08T04:51:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SandWriter \* > **WTF is slash dot?** [Slashdot](http://www.slashdot.org/) ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or-is-the-sdmb-on-turtle-speed/147234/9 "2003-01-08T04:56:27Z")
SandWriter, try reading ATMB. ---
**Author:** ![Berkut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or-is-the-sdmb-on-turtle-speed/147234/10 "2003-01-08T04:58:52Z")
Slashdot is a wildly popular geek news site, that posts several links a day to interesting articles or websites. Websites that are featured often get tens of thousands of hits as a result, and sometimes buckle under the load. This rapid rise in traffic has been termed the “Slashdot Effect”. ---
**Author:** ![BrightEyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/2acd7d/32.png) [@BrightEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrightEyes)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or-is-the-sdmb-on-turtle-speed/147234/11 "2003-01-08T05:04:23Z")
it’s happenning because you masturbate. atleast god isn’t killing kittens this time. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or-is-the-sdmb-on-turtle-speed/147234/12 "2003-01-08T15:14:07Z")
the hamsters are vacationing in Venezeula. ---
**Author:** ![SandWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8491ac/32.png) [@SandWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandWriter)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or-is-the-sdmb-on-turtle-speed/147234/13 "2003-01-08T16:10:34Z")
Hey BrightEyes, Turns out it wasn’t caused by me masturbating. The slow down was caused by this other site, [www.slashdot.org](http://www.slashdot.org), linking to a thread on the SDMB. Thanks for the response though. -Sandwriter p.s. And Brighteyes, just so you understand, there is a theory that the message board is powered by hamsters, so if the hamsters are vacationing in Venezeula (maybe they have releatives over there?) then that would be the cause of the slow down. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or-is-the-sdmb-on-turtle-speed/147234/14 "2003-01-08T16:15:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Arnold Winkelried \* > \*\*SandWriter, try reading ATMB. \*\* Good advice. It’s the first forum I check each morning. ---
**Author:** ![SandWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8491ac/32.png) [@SandWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandWriter)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or-is-the-sdmb-on-turtle-speed/147234/15 "2003-01-08T16:28:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Libertarian \* > \*\*Good advice. It’s the first forum I check each morning. \*\* Okay okay! I posted in the wrong place, AGAIN. Why do you always have to pick on me! Just kidding, I know you are really trying to help me out. I appreciate it. Thank you. I can’t believe someone with over 10000 posts commented on one of my threads! I feel like I’ve been touched by a god. My only defense, er, excuse, is I was thinking that a complaint about the speed of the board was more of a pit topic than a technical question. But now I see the light. LONG LIVE THE SDMB! -Sandwriter