# Why can't I post? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 29, 2003, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-post/221621 "2003-12-29T20:21:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![zut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zut/32/2875_2.png) [@zut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zut)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-post/221621/1 "2003-12-29T20:21:36Z")
I’ve been trying to postin in GQ all day, and I keep getting a “page not found” error. I can read the thread (and forum) OK, but I can’t post. I’ve never had this problem before. What gives? (Not really expecting this to go through) ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-post/221621/2 "2003-12-29T20:35:12Z")
The servers a bit slow at the time, I suspect. I doubt it is anything particular to your account, **zut**. ---
**Author:** ![zut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zut/32/2875_2.png) [@zut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zut)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-post/221621/3 "2003-12-29T20:39:42Z")
Well I’ll be damned. That posted right away. Hows come I can’t post in GQ? ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-post/221621/4 "2003-12-29T20:50:42Z")
Have you tried it now? ---
**Author:** ![zut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zut/32/2875_2.png) [@zut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zut)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-post/221621/5 "2003-12-29T20:51:01Z")
Well, you’re probably right **Ice Wolf**. It’s just that 1) I’ve never really had this type of problem before, and 2) when I post in this thread, the post goes through almost immediately, but 3) when I post in GQ (and I’ve tried like 20 times), I get an error. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-post/221621/6 "2003-12-29T21:01:49Z")
It’s weird, all right. Traffic shouldn’t be any different from one forum to another, no matter how busy each forum is, so – I dunno. Hope it works out soon for you, though. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-post/221621/7 "2003-12-29T21:16:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ice Wolf \* > \*\*It’s weird, all right. Traffic shouldn’t be any different from one forum to another, no matter how busy each forum is, so – I dunno. Hope it works out soon for you, though. 🙂 \*\* Not necessarily true that the forum doesn’t matter - the ForumID almost HAS to be a key on just about all the tables, so if posting involves a query including a “where forumid=x” SQL clause, the number of threads (or posts) that have to be considered at all may vary considerably (filtering on a table key is relatively easy. If there’s relatively little left - like in ATMB - things might work even if the DB is loaded. If there’s A LOT left to go through - like in GQ - you may be out of luck). If this sounds like Hebrew to you - I guess it’s all my fault 🙂 Dani ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-post/221621/8 "2003-12-29T21:22:38Z")
Ah, okay. That’s cool. I had thought that traffic problems, and therefore access slowdown, was fairly well spread across the board. Interesting! Thanks for that, **Noone Special**. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-post/221621/9 "2003-12-29T23:01:45Z")
The board seems to move to each forum or post in a timely manner but it takes forever for the whole page to load. ---
**Author:** ![zut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zut/32/2875_2.png) [@zut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zut)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2003, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-post/221621/10 "2003-12-30T15:12:31Z")
OK, well it worked today first time. Slow, of course, and I’m getting the weird lack of picture icons mentioned in another thread, but the GQ post I made went right through.