# Thread status icon **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 11, 2008, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-status-icon/459597 "2008-08-11T11:07:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![squeekster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/779978/32.png) [@squeekster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeekster)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2008, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-status-icon/459597/1 "2008-08-11T11:07:30Z")
In all other V-bulletin boards I frequent, once a poster has posted in a thread, the thread status icon next to the thread title in each forum has a checkmark in it. Why doesn’t that feature work here? Surely that little checkmark can’t put _that_ much strain on the servers. Can it? ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2008, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-status-icon/459597/2 "2008-08-11T11:13:51Z")
IIRC they had tried activating this feature once and it caused the servers to crash. I don’t remember the details offhand, but I’m sure someone else will be along with more info. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2008, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-status-icon/459597/3 "2008-08-11T11:41:28Z")
[QUOTE=LurkMeister] IIRC they had tried activating this feature once and it caused the servers to crash. I don’t remember the details offhand, but I’m sure someone else will be along with more info. [/QUOTE] You recall correctly. When the servers DIDN’T crash, board speed was about as fast as a glacier. Yes, it’s possible for this board to be slower. It’s a feature that we’d like to impliment, however, we figure the tradeoff isn’t worth it.