A thread that doesn’t get many replies should be called an Anchor because it sinks to the bottom fast and a thread that gets many replies should be called a Dead Body because it keeps coming up to the top.
If it’s not clever as I think let me know.
Now let me see will this thread be an Anchor or a Dead Body?
Haha, or we could just call them sinkers and floaters…
Well the BBQ Pit reeks of rotting flesh.
I like them 
The ideal “anchor” would be a thread that gets bumped up a couple of times, but just keeps dropping down again, and eventually gets lost in the muck at the very bottom (ie, the second page).
anchor sounds good…like anchor-man. Something thats always there.
and dead body just doesn’t sound like something I’d like to call mine.
Whatever though…just call me threadkiller just the same.
Anchor seems to connote something good. Anchorman. He/She’s my anchor. A thread that gets no replies implies something unworthy about it (though there may in fact be nothing wrong with it). And dead body? Seems contradictory. The floating part works, but it floats because there’s activity. That’s not very “dead”-seeming to me.
How about “Goodyear” and “Lead Balloon”?
Maybe “cork” and “Hughes drilling tool.” Or the time-honored “bad penny.”
Seconded.
Nice idea, but deliberate attempts at creating etymology don’t often prevail.
Yeah, these terms won’t catch on, but it’s fun anyway.
How about “Goodyear” and “Hindenburg”? :evil grin:
True. Ever try to give yourself a nickname? Like George on Seinfeld, when he requested that everyone in the office call him T-Bone.
Ooooooo. Especially if the thread dies in a spectacular flame-war, that would be highly appropriate.
::rubs hands together, eyes darting side-to-side deviously::
Heh. I hereby nominate “Hindenburg” to describe a thread that was intended to be a serious, factual discussion, but ended up getting tossed into Great Debates or The Pit, or just locked.
Rescue time
I like Sinkers and Floaters but what if instead of Anchor it was rock and Dead Body it was Submarine or poisoned fish?
I’ve lost it
I think GD is too restrained (barely) for flames of any real intensity. The Pit can go thermonuclear in no time at all, though!
You don’t read GD very much, do you? Felch and fuck might not be as commonly used there but it’s less polite a forum than the Pit by a wide margin.
Well, I don’t want to hijack, but I respectfully disagree.
Anyhoo, if there’s consensus that a thread turns into a Hindenburg when it lands in either The Pit or GD, then that’s really all that matters, as far as expanding the lexicon goes. I very much like the concept, at any rate, however widely it is applied.