# SDMB seems busy!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-seems-busy/462321>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 6, 2008, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-seems-busy/462321 "2008-09-06T11:18:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-seems-busy/462321/1 "2008-09-06T11:18:14Z")

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Largest 1 day thread count in years.

Old Dopers returning?

Or a byproduct of the new server?

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**Author:** ![Naturally\_Oblivious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ec9cab/32.png) [@Naturally\_Oblivious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Naturally_Oblivious)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-seems-busy/462321/2 "2008-09-06T11:30:50Z")

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I’d say it’s a combination of things.

Free to post, old dopers returning, long time lurkers posting, and the fact that the board doesn’t time out anywhere near as much as it used to. (At least not for me.)

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**Author:** ![I\_Have\_Hippos\_In\_My\_Garden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4491bb/32.png) [@I\_Have\_Hippos\_In\_My\_Garden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Have_Hippos_In_My_Garden)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-seems-busy/462321/3 "2008-09-06T11:37:42Z")

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Or some of us just have the worst diarrhoea ever and can’t do anything else.

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**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-seems-busy/462321/4 "2008-09-06T17:18:44Z")

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> [@I\_Have\_Hippos\_In\_My\_Garden](#):
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> Or some of us just have the worst diarrhoea ever and can’t do anything else.

Way to shit on the thread.