# to click or not to click **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 20, 2000, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-click-or-not-to-click/14970 "2000-03-20T13:09:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-click-or-not-to-click/14970/1 "2000-03-20T13:09:00Z")
when you post a reply or start a topic, you get the message (or at least I do) that you can either wait for your browser to fwd you or click here if you don’t want to wait any longer. I usally click, and want to know from the teeming millions: What do you do, Click or wait? Or do you not get that message? and to the Moderators: What is that wait for? is there an advantage to clicking or waiting? * * * ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-click-or-not-to-click/14970/2 "2000-03-20T13:37:00Z")
It says “Wait two seconds,” doesn’t it? I always wait. The alternative would be to look like the guy standing in the elevator jamming his thumb on the “Close Door” button. ---
**Author:** ![mega\_the\_roo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mega\_the\_roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mega_the_roo)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-click-or-not-to-click/14970/3 "2000-03-20T15:33:00Z")
i always wait. frankly, if it took any less time i’d think it was broken. * * * if wishes were fishes, we could walk on the ocean. ---
**Author:** ![kinoons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a698b9/32.png) [@kinoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kinoons)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-click-or-not-to-click/14970/4 "2000-03-21T00:02:00Z")
I believe I wait as well, but I’m usually on while I am at work, so I find myself clicking on reply and quickly changing to another window. * * * Kinooning it up for 20 years and counting ---
**Author:** ![neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ab097/32.png) [@neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neuro-trash_grrrl)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-click-or-not-to-click/14970/5 "2000-03-21T00:15:00Z")
I almost always wait, unless it has been stuck there for a couple minutes, with the URL in the Location bar still showing “postings.cgi” and not “006256.html”. Then I click. I would also like to point out that to those of us with our minds in the gutter, a “c” and an “l” right next to each other look like a “d”. Thank you. * * * Heck is where you go when you don’t believe in Gosh. ---
**Author:** ![EnigmaOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@EnigmaOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnigmaOne)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-click-or-not-to-click/14970/6 "2000-03-21T00:58:00Z")
As I right-click to post, I usually close the redirect window that pops up and move on. Or I wait. 😉 * * * – **Kalél** [TheHungerSite.com](http://www.thehungersite.com) “If ignorance is bliss, you must be orgasmic.” “Well, there was that thing with the Cheese-Wiz…but I’m feeling **much** better now!” – John Astin, Night Court ---
**Author:** ![LucyVanPelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c6cbf5/32.png) [@LucyVanPelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LucyVanPelt)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-click-or-not-to-click/14970/7 "2000-03-21T03:19:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by neuro-trash grrrl: > \*\* > > I would also like to point out that to those of us with our minds in the gutter, a “c” and an “l” right next to each other look like a “d”. Thank you. > > \*\* I will never look at the word click the same again 🙂 * * * Keep smiling it makes 'em wonder what you’ve been up to. ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-click-or-not-to-click/14970/8 "2000-03-21T03:22:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by neuro-trash grrrl: > I would also like to point out that to those of us with our minds in the gutter, a “c” and an “l” right next to each other look like a “d”. Thank you. So, NTG, I assume your answer to the question you saw would be no. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![MrKnowItAll](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrknowitall/32/87_2.png) [@MrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrKnowItAll)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-click-or-not-to-click/14970/9 "2000-03-21T03:24:00Z")
Wait. Does that mean that “ditoris” is wrong? No wonder I can’t get laid.