Noboriage said:
If the approvers have shit to do in the real world, shouldnt danbooru put in more approvers?
If the first 24 hours a post has been submitted was all that mattered, then the modqueue would expire after 24 hours instead of 72. Your belief that posts should be approved within 1 day is fairly entitled.
The 72 hour time period allows for multiple approvers to look at it and if it's something a specific approver would like, they don't need to log into danbooru every day to catch it before it's auto-deleted. They can log off, go to their day job, touch grass, sleep, etc. This might be a shock to you, but being an approver is not a paid position. Sometimes real world is more important than anime image board.