Why GQ?

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Why is it the General Questions forum that always seems to slow down and crash on a regular basis? I’m pretty sure it’s not because of traffic since MPSIMS and GD get at least as much.

I haven’t been able to get into the GQ forum since about 1:05 SDMB time, yet on the Message Board homepage it says the last post was at 1:44! This is really frustrating, because it seems like other people can still access and post to the forum, while I’m still locked outside.

What’s the deal? If GQ isn’t up soon I’m going to be forced to visit GD, and, believe me, nobody wants that!

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::laughing::

You’re not the only one, Ursa. I haven’t been able to get into GQ for quite a while now, and I’m having IMs from other people with the same problem.

-Melin

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Moi aussi. And it’s really frustrating! It’s been a few hours since I’ve had the chance to correct one of handy’s factual errors!

Gypsy: Tom, I don’t get you.
Tom Servo: Nobody does. I’m the wind, baby.

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The posts you see that register after you are unable to get into the forum are duplicates of posts that were made immediately prior to access being denied. It is all part of a massive government conspiracy to drive me crazy(ier) by relegating me to cleaning up multi-posts tonight when I should be out and about.

Sorry you got caught up in the madness. :wink:

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I’ve been unable to post a non-flame in the Pit for nearly an hour. Will it go in if I turn it into a real scorching taunt?

Tom~

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Again? I haven’t been able to get into GQ since at least 9:00 CT.

I’m being forced to read threads like “What if they found Noah’s Ark?” and “Why do Black people like Chicken?”!!!

Please, please, please fix GQ!!!

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I can’t seem to get to GQ today either. And the entire MB seems slower than normal. I suspect it’s gonna go down completely later today, much like it did the other day.

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If I can’t get into GQ soon, I may have to actually do some work today. I’ve been trying to average down my productivity from that week the board was hacked, and now you all are going to go and spike it back up again.

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I can’t get into GQ either and I have some very pressing and important questions to ask… :slight_smile:

Yours truly,
aha

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and besides that my replies are taking eons to post… :frowning:

Yours truly,
aha

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LOL - Come on Ursa, GQ master, it’s not as bad as that! But I am missing GQ too.

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It’s THAT bad!

I miss having colors to yell with YELL!

Are you driving with your eyes open or are you using The Force? - A. Foley

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I think GQ got bored and went home—other than poor Sax’s illness, there’s not a damn interesting thing going on today. Or am I just getting blasé?

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(Rocking back and forth in a rising panic, not unlike Rain Man at ‘5 minutes to Judge Wapner’)

Need General Questions back …definitely, definitely need General Questions back.

Of course, it’s definitely, definitely GQ that we need back.

“Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known” - Michel Gyquem de Montaigne

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I want my, I want GQ now
I want my, I want GQ now
I want my, I want GQ now
I want my, I want GQ now

Now look at them posters - that’s the way you do it
You post your questions on that GQ board
That ain’t workin’, that’s the way you do it
Answers for nothin’ and your clicks for free
Now that ain’t workin’, that’s the way you do it
Lemme tell ya, them guys ain’t dumb
Maybe get a blister on your mouse handlin’ finger
Maybe get a blister on your thumb

We got to handle all the dumb questions
Drive on parkways and what ends in “gry”
We got to stop answerin’ the troll bait
We know to use the dictionary…

I want my, I want GQ now
I want my, I want GQ now
I want my, I want GQ now
I want my, I want GQ now

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I hate to say it, but I told ya didn’t I?

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GQ is one of our larger forums and we suspect the lockups are due to the system choking on all those posts.

A fix is in the works. In the meantime, we’re trying to make do as best we can and we ask for your patience while we figure out what to do and how to do it.

Sorry for your inconvenience, we hate it too.

your humble TubaDiva
Administrator
The Straight Dope

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Good one Bricker! Prepare your GQ version of “Another One Bites the Dust” too, because it might happen again one of these days.

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Yes. (Stands up and applauds) Good one Bricker.

“It turns out it isn’t so much a law of physics as it is a local ordinance.”