[Sidebar Moderator]

i think that if you look you'll note that the threads were being simultaneously composed, which means that a search wouldn't have accomplished anything.

You are correct for some of them, but for some of the later ones, it would have.

[Nora]

There may well have been a time lag - but I suspect it is equally likely to have been caused by the different internet routes to the site. A great deal of the 'net has been disrupted lately.

Whether it was a failure to search or a slow refresh, I have been around here long enough to see that FReepers are pretty grown up about rearranging themselves to one main thread. Absent an imminent threat to crash the server, I think a little less "quick on the draw" deletion would serve the forum well.