Over in ATMB, new member Ladymarmalade is asking what time of day is best to get her posts read and responded to. Let’s give her a hand. When are you most likely to be on the Board (check all that apply)?
According to this poll, I post at the same times as most dopers.
I’m a schoolteacher. SDMB is blocked by our filter, plus the kids keep me pretty busy! After dinner and paper-grading is when I can finally get on.
With “most likely” being the deciding term, I went with US business hours since that’s my usual time, but I also come in at all hours and even on the weekends.
Multiple choice might be an even more revealing option for the query in the other thread.
But the poll is at least as valid a way of getting an answer as all the number crunching I did there! 
Thanks for setting it up, kunilou.
ETA: I see too late that it IS multiple choice! Sharp as a bowling ball.
You forgot one important item.
- The best days are Monday through Friday. Posting on Friday afternoon is almost as bad as the weekend.
Go back to the thread every hour or so at first to answer clarifications. People will also stop responding if the thread doesn’t have an input from the OP and it looks like they don’t care about the thread. You should add a post letting people know you’re at least reading it.
I work from home, I post whenever. I am rarely up late, so that is the only thing I didn’t check.
Back when I was working, I would get up an hour or so before I needed to leave for work and read SDMB to “wake up,” so I would post before business hours. Now, I’m unemployed and I could seriously spend all day on The Dope.
Usually in the mornings, and in the early evenings. My day time is mostly taken up with getting back in shape, house work, and job searching.
Not sure if I’m “evening” or “late night” US time. I’m usually most often on about now, say 10am-noon Thailand time, which is 7 hours ahead of GMT. This time of year, that’s 12 hours ahead of Central Standard Time.
At this point, after 36 voters, about all I would feel safe in saying is that if you want others to see your post and to reply to it straightaway, the best time NOT to post would be on the weekend.
A slightly less comfortable statement would be to avoid “lunch time USA” but if you include that small number in the “US business hours” as a unit, then anytime during the USA Workweek would be a safe bet.
A more specific poll might ask for three or four hour intervals, with multiple choice options, but that might require a time zone converter for the benefit of non-USA voters.
This poll gives a useful frame of reference generally, I believe.