# Problem deleting thread subscriptions **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 23, 2009, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-deleting-thread-subscriptions/500710 "2009-06-23T13:29:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-deleting-thread-subscriptions/500710/1 "2009-06-23T13:29:18Z")
A heads up for TPTB. I just tried deleting subscriptions from 2 different threads, and while I got the message saying they were deleted, the subscriptions remain. Is this an early hint of board problems to come? ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-deleting-thread-subscriptions/500710/2 "2009-06-23T14:49:44Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > A heads up for TPTB. I just tried deleting subscriptions from 2 different threads, and while I got the message saying they were deleted, the subscriptions remain. > > Is this an early hint of board problems to come? It is. Tomorrow, I shall probably sit around for much of the morning with nothing to do, wondering what I should try to accomplish for the day. At lunch, I shall eat some quite common sandwich, hardly tasting it. In the early afternoon, I shall sit at the pool, trying hard not to finish my crossword puzzle while watching old people pretend that they can still sunbathe like they were 22. Later, I shall wander into a bookstore so I can idly thumb through the science fiction section and think that I’ve seen/read all these before… Oh, my bad, sorry, you wanted to know if the thing would warp. :o Stupid anti-prescriptivists and their insistence that spelling is unimportant… ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-deleting-thread-subscriptions/500710/3 "2009-06-23T15:08:05Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > A heads up for TPTB. I just tried deleting subscriptions from 2 different threads, and while I got the message saying they were deleted, the subscriptions remain. > > Is this an early hint of board problems to come? This has happened in the past – ultimately the subscriptions did disappear. I do not remember what happened around that but I don’t recall any major board outage or breakage in the wake of that, it was just a little anomaly in an otherwise regular day. Sometimes weird stuff just be. Thank you for letting us know. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-deleting-thread-subscriptions/500710/4 "2009-06-23T15:15:28Z")
I went away for a while after I posted, and evereything seems to be updating just fine now. I probably wasn’t holding my mouth right. I have the same problem when I go trout fishing. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-deleting-thread-subscriptions/500710/5 "2009-06-23T16:46:49Z")
The system does ultimately catch up to itself but sometimes it takes a bit of time to pass for everything to kick in. This must be another of those tasks that doesn’t always update in real time but comes along later.