Instead of dragging me into this s**tshow of a thread you could could be working on finishing your chart.
How dare you use the male pronoun for me. I’m non-binary. I’m decimal. Some days hexadecimal when I’m feeling fancy.
I would have gone for a 4096-QAM binary joke but no way my knees could handle that.
…you could could be working on finishing your chart.
Get 'im, Dave! Most of us are too indulgent of his slacking hijinks. 
Blasphemy!
Oh, I dare. I’d even dare to include a link to Cheech & Chong’s “Dave” if I didn’t think @Seapup might smite me for a Community Guidelines violation. (I went and listened to it again on my own, anyway.) Maybe there should be a badge for that…. 
What qualifies as “fancy”?
Pay no attention to that 
behind the curtain! (If you choose to pay attention, though, then please note its skillful use of personal pronouns! 
)
Also, welcome to the 
show! 
Dave’s not here…
Just changed it from “watching” to “normal”. I get enough emails as it is.
whoops
I missed the pre-“whoops” edit. Gotta be quicker than the 's fingers, I guess!
I get it. For some reason, I was getting a lot of those a few days ago after @fmills1d dragged me into a different show. I think a lot of those had “Dave” written all over them.
Blame the dragger, not the messenger. Besides, according to the icon next to my name, today is my anniversary, so you have to be nice.
Figures, right after I turned off “watching” so no email proof either.
Your today is my tomorrow. Maybe someone else from the future will drag you into yet another show topic. Happy Forum Anniversary Eve or, y’know, whatever. 
I think there’s a lag of several minutes between post submission and e-mail generation (at least that’s how it seems in my informal experience), and I think the probably got the edit done before that would’ve gone out, anyway. 
Edit: Oh, 
! Blame @carverofchoice for that one!
Live in the past, who am I to judge?
They seem to come in batches for me, wasn’t sure if they were just delayed or didn’t actually generate until that time. If just delayed, they could potentially be pre-edit 
. But you’re probably right, probably to give the forum “AI” and mods (and occasionally the user) a chance to clean up their act.
This is my guess, since there are timers built into the platform for other things, like being unable to “unlike” a post after a preset amount of time.
Circa 1994 Peter Tauber, with whom I shared AOL (free) forum space for a year or so.
Two cheap (illegitimates) trading barbs.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1532012.The_Sunshine_Soldiers
‘Online’ was brand new and credentialed people mixed pretty freely with no bodies for a while. 
Ah, the days of dial-up. I remember attending a community Q&A where they had this virtual auditorium where users could pose questions that I assume were queued up and moderated, and in this way I got to ask Tom Clancy a question.
Funny! Clancy was another forum ‘spook’ (anonymous screen names all around) though I had no interaction with him that I know of.
Also the days when cities still maintained their own community bulletin boards for serious citizen stuff. And then… now.
Outsourced.
Centralized.
pwned.
I like when that one is shortened to pwnt. I remember reading about a company called Pwnie Express that developed a device they called the Pwn Plug for security testing, and I though that seemed like a nifty thing.