# Sometimes I am a very very slow learner

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-am-a-very-very-slow-learner/198726>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 31, 2003, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-am-a-very-very-slow-learner/198726 "2003-08-31T01:31:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-am-a-very-very-slow-learner/198726/1 "2003-08-31T01:31:28Z")

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Like I don’t seem to be able to learn that it can take hours for _one_ new reply to appear in the average post. Because I still check the pages every bloody minute!

Or there’s the other side of the sword - Just when there are enough poeple for a high volume of new posts the boards become treacle.  
What _is_ the capacity of this place? because it seems to me like if there are more than, say 8 people actively posting (averaging about 2 posts an hour) it’s treacle-time.  
This is a _great_ place! But just think how much greater it would be if there wasn’t a demand problem, and people could really populate the place with good sturdy conversation!

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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:** [August 31, 2003, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-am-a-very-very-slow-learner/198726/2 "2003-08-31T01:35:08Z")

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But **Lobsang** , the Board would then become so popular that the traffic would increase until we were swamped again.

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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-am-a-very-very-slow-learner/198726/3 "2003-08-31T01:58:32Z")

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I know. It’s a shame. But theoretically it _would_ be cool if the supply-demand thing was not an issue.

It’s a bit like motorways.