I planted a really large bomb at the SDMB.

[Happy Lendervedder]

It's a bomb. It's a really, really, really big bomb.


The biggest bomb of a thread I've ever posted. Possibly the biggest bomb of a thread in the history of mankind.

I posted it on August 7, 2003 (Don't reply to it, as you'll only be resurrecting a dead thread. Hell, don't even clink the link, as you'll be defusing my bomb.): My summer vacation is here. No outside contact for a week, Ahhhhh..... (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=203114)

As of right now, it's had zero replies, and only 12 views.


So. Can anyone else claim a bigger bomb (with no replies, and with less views than 12)? If not, what's your biggest bomb of a thread?





Happy

[PastAllReason]

I'd click on your link, but then it'd have, gasp, 13 views!

[SlickRoenick]

That title doesn't seem like a good idea.

[Good Egg]

I posted one with no replies. I don't remember how many views, it was so boring I don't even recall the title.

[Larry Mudd]

In the past month, I posted a thread in the Cafe gushing about the Meryl Streep/Uma Thurman movie, Prime.

Zero replies. Probably under ten views. It sank like a stone, and I can't even find it via a search. Maybe it was culled.

[GIGObuster]

The one rant I recently made about an arcade misadventure I had in the early 90's:

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=348924

It was disappointing to me. I got one reply, but then oblivion.

I knew I should have posted it on the Pit!

[CynicalGabe]

I had a thread with 0 replies and 13 views plus many with 0 and low-20s views.

I suspect I am on a great many ignore lists. Most of my threads sink like lead rocks. :(

[Queen Bruin]

I don't have one that old -- I haven't been here long enough -- but I did start a thread about a trip to Tijuana (that didn't end up happening due to time constraints) with 0 replies. April '05, I think. A month or so after I joined. My liver's too marinated and I'm too lazy to search.

[racer72]

My low point was my 500th post. 0 replies and only 19 views. The only reason I made the post someone else made a big deal of their 500th post and received a bunch of replies.

[Lorenzo]

As one with creation of several "zero" threads to my credit, the only thing I'd care to share is, as a lesser-known poster, now I attempt to discern the existence of any potential even fleeting general interest in the content of my thought prior to creation of a new thread.

My questions generally run to the obscure and odd.

YMMV

[Kythereia]

Oh my God! Quick!

The blue wire... or the red wire?

Which one will defuse the bomb?!?!







Oh, wait, you mean that kind of bomb. Yeah, had loads of those. *woeful sigh*

[El_Kabong]

Hunh, my most paltry 'zero replies' thread got a whopping 21 views. Obviously I'm way more popular than y'all.

OTOH, I've never had a thread that went over 150 replies, and only a few that have gone over 50.

[Otto]

I posted a thread in CS about a musician and it got no replies and 1 view. That one view was mine, from when the thread posted.

I win.

[Johanna]

You win, dude, I can't compete. My lowest view-count among my zero-reply threads was 25 (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=57256).

[Happy Lendervedder]

I posted a thread in CS about a musician and it got no replies and 1 view. That one view was mine, from when the thread posted.

I win.


Yep, you win.

[Johanna]

That wasn't a bomb, it was a depth charge!

[Wile E]

Does this have anything to do with all the zombie threads that keep popping up?

[bubastis]

Lately, I posted a cool game (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=352197) that I hoped would run and run... One reply (thanks Lama Pacos).

And also, A million dollar self help idea (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=352204) .... Zero replies. I invested quite a lot of thought into both... ah well.

[bubastis]

Lately, I posted a cool game (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=352197) that I hoped would run and run... One reply (thanks Lama Pacos).

And also, A million dollar self help idea (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=352204) .... Zero replies. I invested quite a lot of thought into both... ah well.


Btw, both of these are fairly recent so I dont think anyones going to get pissed off if you ressurect them.

[AuntiePam]

I found several with 0 replies and views in the low teens.

It's fun, looking through old threads. I saw a lot of familiar names that haven't been around for awhile. I'm surprised that so many people decided not to register, or maybe they did and changed their User Name.

I wonder where they've gone and if they know they're missed.

[Jet Jaguar]

A search shows I only had one thread I created with zero replies. I tend to start a lot of single-digit threads though. The last was a thread a week ago about the Dakar rally, checking to see if any Dopers were watching. As I suspected, nobody is. That one got three replies, one of which was me replying to someone else.

[What Exit?]

In the past month, I posted a thread in the Cafe gushing about the Meryl Streep/Uma Thurman movie, Prime.

Zero replies. Probably under ten views. It sank like a stone, and I can't even find it via a search. Maybe it was culled.
I clicked on your profile to get the link to all theads you started. Here it is.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=350081

[TJdude825]

It's not worth bothering the hamsters to find it, but I posted about the event at the Hollywood Bowl this past summer to celebrate Stephen Sondheim's 75th birthday. I was really excited because I got to sing for about 17,000 people, and then meet Jason Alexander, among others. Apparently, I was the only Doper there.

[sundog66]

A couple of years ago, I started an MPSIMS thread contemplating the end of my summer. In hindsight, it was clearly livejournal material rather than SDMB material. It got no replies, despite the parenthetical in the title asking people to "please humor me". Not sure what the view count was.

[Danalan]

I've got one with 0 replies, and only 5 views. Three of those views I know are mine.

I've started 3 other threads that have 0 replies. They have a few more views than the first one I mentioned.

29 of the 45 threads I've started have less than 10 replies.

Of course, starting this (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=250465) monster makes up for all that. :)

[AskNott]

1. You are entitled to one bump, to bring it back to the top of page one.

2. You said you wanted no contact for a week; we were just being polite.

[Happy Lendervedder]

I posted it on August 7, 2003 (Don't reply to it, as you'll only be resurrecting a dead thread. Hell, don't even clink the link, as you'll be defusing my bomb.): My summer vacation is here. No outside contact for a week, Ahhhhh.....



Well, my bomb of a thread's gotten 136 views in less than 24 hours.

[Large Marge]

0 replies, 21 views (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=348931&highlight=ruger)

I was rather surprised, actually. Surely we have a few gun experts among us?

[mhendo]

I'vew started three threads that received no replies.

All of them were in GQ, and were computer-repated questions. I just figured that no-one who knew the answer happened to be on the Boards on those days.