# This site is fast paced! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 10, 2003, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-site-is-fast-paced/154197 "2003-02-10T21:12:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9dc877/32.png) [@Mr\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-site-is-fast-paced/154197/1 "2003-02-10T21:12:18Z")
I’m used to smaller, more intimate boards. Can you guys keep up with all the posts? ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-site-is-fast-paced/154197/2 "2003-02-10T21:13:59Z")
Yes. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have 635 other threads to follow up on. ---
**Author:** ![roadrunner70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@roadrunner70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roadrunner70)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-site-is-fast-paced/154197/3 "2003-02-10T21:14:59Z")
Damn you **Q.E.D.** …you beat me to it. ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-site-is-fast-paced/154197/4 "2003-02-10T21:18:29Z")
I just signed up for a smaller, more intimate board a few weeks back but I find it so boring there that I only posted three times. I’m hooked on the SDMB ride and I ain’t ever leaving. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-site-is-fast-paced/154197/5 "2003-02-10T21:45:56Z")
I started a thread like this in December when I first started out, Mr Jim, but it comes to you sooner or later. It’s an adventure though… that’s for sure. ---
**Author:** ![samarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@samarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samarm)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-site-is-fast-paced/154197/6 "2003-02-10T21:48:50Z")
I also signed up for a smaller, more intimate, more sexually attractive board. But I soon gave it the bums rush for the SDMB’s darker, rougher, meatier, more succulent board. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-site-is-fast-paced/154197/7 "2003-02-10T21:50:36Z")
**Mr Jim** , the secret is to get to know whose posts are worth reading and whose are just a waste of your precious time. Since you’re new, I’ll help you out - every word produced by my dancing fingers is pure wit, wisdom, and wonderfulness. You’re welcome. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-site-is-fast-paced/154197/8 "2003-02-10T22:58:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Amp \* > \*\*I just signed up for a smaller, more intimate board a few weeks back but I find it so boring there that I only posted three times. I’m hooked on the SDMB ride and I ain’t ever leaving. \*\* Ha, yeah. This has happened to me, too. I signed up for a knitting board that looked really cool, but the only topic that got more than a couple of posts per day was the one about yarn snobbery. 😕 Since I didn’t need to check it every day, I stopped remembering to check it at all. My beloved Fametracker is a lot slower than this board, too, but there are a zillion active topics at once, which makes it worthwhile, even though each thread grows pretty slowly. Anyway, welcome to the boards, **Mr Jim**. No, I can’t keep up with all the posts. The moderators can’t even keep up with all the posts, and they’re being _paid_ to do it. 😉 What I do, and what I suspect others do as well, is to start with the forums that I am more interested in, and become selective about what thread topics I click on. I start with the BBQ Pit because if there is something “interesting” going on elsewhere on the board, usually some fallout lands there. If people are interested enough to talk about a thread in another thread, then it’s probably worth a gander. Also, other board members will sometimes tell me to look at a particular thread. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-site-is-fast-paced/154197/9 "2003-02-10T23:21:43Z")
The SDMB is the only reason I have cable internet access. ---
**Author:** ![Watcher\_of\_the\_Skies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/45deac/32.png) [@Watcher\_of\_the\_Skies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Watcher_of_the_Skies)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-site-is-fast-paced/154197/10 "2003-02-10T23:31:23Z")
I found this board just last month and now I am totally hooked. I can’t think of a better reason to turn on the computer. ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-site-is-fast-paced/154197/11 "2003-02-10T23:48:17Z")
I love the fast pace of the SDMB. I love Fathom too, don’t get me wrong, but I only check on that board every couple of days, whereas on the SDMB there’s something new every day. Oh, and **Mr Jim** , don’t forget to thank the hamsters. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-site-is-fast-paced/154197/12 "2003-02-10T23:58:29Z")
> [@](#): > > This site is fast paced! Is it? Hadn’t noticed. Brain the size of a planet, you know? ---
**Author:** ![Danalan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@Danalan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danalan)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-site-is-fast-paced/154197/13 "2003-02-11T00:12:37Z")
> [@](#): > > This site is fast paced! The site, yes. The server, no. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-site-is-fast-paced/154197/14 "2003-02-11T00:40:56Z")
> [@](#): > > The moderators can’t even keep up with all the posts, and they’re being paid to do it. Shhh! They’re not supposed to know that. Now they’ll start to suspect that Ed’s been funnelling all their paychecks to me. ---
**Author:** ![beckwall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@beckwall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beckwall)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-site-is-fast-paced/154197/15 "2003-02-11T00:53:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by samarm \* > \*\*SDMB’s darker, rougher, meatier, more succulent board > 🙂 \*\* Mmmmmmmmmmmm. Drooling a bit right now. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-site-is-fast-paced/154197/16 "2003-02-11T05:21:39Z")
You know you’ve been a Doper for too long when you disagree with the OP. ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-site-is-fast-paced/154197/17 "2003-02-11T06:30:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Troy McClure SF \* > \*\*You know you’ve been a Doper for too long when you disagree with the OP. \*\* I disagree with the OP a lot of the time. What is wrong with that? Do you think the opinion in the OP is sacred or something? [ul]:smack: [sup]Oh, you mean the OP in this thread. **Sorry** [/sup][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-site-is-fast-paced/154197/18 "2003-02-11T08:51:50Z")
I remember the olden days… 1997 or so… the board was on AOL and you’d start at the top and just read the whole board, then start at the top again, and read all the new posts… …and it was just the two forums: General Questions and Comments on Cecil’s Columns. And we’d go over and pester the “Comments” people for asking questions in that forum. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-site-is-fast-paced/154197/19 "2003-02-11T11:21:56Z")
Welcome. Thankfully after a few weeks you will be able to skip all the threads with titles like “Confusing card trick” and “Impossible vocabulary riddle” and “I’ve got a blank in my blank, TMI” and whatever you do, do NOT open the thread about the ell oh are dee oh eff tee aitch ee are eye en gee ess\* being written by other people or we’ll never see you again. My advise, stick to GQ at first and then add new forums as you master that one. \*Why oh you kay en oh double you, ess pee ee ell ell aye en gee oh you tee pee oh ess tee ess ell eye kay ee tee aitch ae tee double you oh you ell dee em ae kay ee ef oh are ae are ee ae ell ell why aye em pee oh ess ess aye bee ell ee tee oh are ee ae dee tee aitch are ee ae dee. ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-site-is-fast-paced/154197/20 "2003-02-11T13:25:22Z")
**Osiris** , that was the most traumatic thing I’ve read since, well, yesterday (that inexplicable thread on the D&D film). At any rate, I’m curious about why **Troy McClure** disagrees with the OP. The few message boards I’ve ever checked besides this on were terribly slow-paces comparatively. I only look at them once every several months and there is no real difference each time. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-site-is-fast-paced/154197.md?page=2)