(All apologies to Karmen Scents if someone is actually using the name!)
The real reason SDMB are so sluggish:
KS: “Hi SDMB thread support. This is Karmen Scents, how can I help you?”
C1: “Yes I am reading this post and the middle is just nonsense.”
KS: “So I take it from the sensible begining and end the poster is probably not a complete raving lunatic.”
C1: “Right.”
KS: “Ok. Tell me how the nonsense starts?”
C1: “Well it says, ‘if you look at <thing>…’”
KS: “Let me stop you there. Did you look at <thing>?”
C1: “Hmm? Oh no. Let me try that. Oh ok now I see. Nope wait. Still more nonsense.”
KS: “Did you look at the whole thing or just the first bit?”
C1: “Just the first bit. Let me look at the rest. Yeah ok now it makes sense. Thanks!”
KS: “Hi SDMB thread support. This is Karmen Scents, how can I help you?”
C2: “Yes I am reading this thread and half the posts are idiotic.”
KS: “Is there a link in the OP?”
C2: “Yes.”
KS: “Did you read it?”
C2: “Yes.”
KS: “Both paragraphs?”
C2: “Yes.”
KS: “Ok you need to get the posters making idiotic comments to read those two paragraphs.”
C2: “How do I know when they have read it?”
KS: “They stop posting.”
KS: “Hi SDMB thread support. This is Karmen Scents, how can I help you?”
JW: “Twas brillig, and the slithy toves”
JW: “Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:”
JW: “All mimsy were the borogoves,”
JW: “And the mome raths outgrabe.”
KS: “Beware the Jabberwock, my son!”
JW: !?
KS: “The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!”
JW: !!?
KS: “Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun”
JW: !!
KS: “The frumious Bandersnatch!”
JW: !!!