# Think it's slow now?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-its-slow-now/72447>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [July 14, 2001, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-its-slow-now/72447 "2001-07-14T03:40:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-its-slow-now/72447/1 "2001-07-14T03:40:08Z")

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After posting, I always get that friendly screen, ‘thanks for posting’ (you’re welcome) ‘You will now be taken to your post. If the administrator has selected to moderate all posts in this forum, you will be taken back to the forum and your post will be displayed presently’. and then some amount of time later, the thread appears with my post.

I got to wondering tonight. Does the administrator **ever** ‘select to moderate all posts in this forum’ ?! :eek:

(just think how slow the boards would be then!)

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**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-its-slow-now/72447/2 "2001-07-14T03:57:48Z")

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I can’t read that “thanks for posting” page in any other than a South Park “Big Gay Al” accent.

“SU-per! Thanks for post-INNNG!”

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**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:** [July 14, 2001, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-its-slow-now/72447/3 "2001-07-14T05:47:56Z")

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When that particular function is activated, the post is not visible to the world until someone has read it and released it.

Frankly, boys and girls, life’s too short for that.

your humble TubaDiva  
Administrator

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-its-slow-now/72447/4 "2001-07-14T09:25:40Z")

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> Frankly, boys and girls, life’s too short for that.

Amen!