# A thread that can still get posts after \_\_\_\_ days **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 29, 2007, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-that-can-still-get-posts-after-____-days/397972 "2007-03-29T14:24:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-that-can-still-get-posts-after-____-days/397972/1 "2007-03-29T14:24:51Z")
Except for some of the game threads that can continue to draw responses for several days, and some of the hotter Pit threads where the battles wage for long spans of time, and the occasional GQ that requires many layers of explanation, or the GD topic that draws in almost everybody who ever contributed to a debate, it strikes me that CS, MPSIMS, IMHO and maybe ATMB threads burn themselves out in a manner of days at the most. With the “don’t revive the zombie” consideration lurking behind us, the same topics get being recycled as new thread topics when in many cases several links to older threads would show that the “new” topic is one that’s been around almost forever. As this thread is starting off in MPSIMS, it has the potential fate of going maybe a day or two and then dropping off the radar – if it even gets any replies! But I’m wondering if enough salient topics get sprinkled about in this thread and enough effort is put to keeping it alive, if we might be able to make this an exception to the rule. One potential sub-topic right off the bat would be “When will the last post in this thread be made?” Surely we can be more creative than that! ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-that-can-still-get-posts-after-____-days/397972/2 "2007-03-29T14:33:57Z")
_bump_ ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-that-can-still-get-posts-after-____-days/397972/3 "2007-03-29T14:53:55Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] _bump_ [/QUOTE] Amazing! I laughed a good 30 seconds over this. Another side topic (there’s no such thing as a **hijack** as far as this thread goes) could be a listing of threads in these four fora that have lasted longer than, say, five days. Some measure of caution could be employed before listing the game threads and the post parties and whatever other label applies. I’m suggesting threads that are at least semi-serious. Things along the lines of: [Movies that just plain piss you off](http://208.100.26.199/sdmb/showthread.php?t=357837&page=1&pp=50) which lasted 7 days plus a bump post. [Simple thing you finally figured out that made you feel stupid](http://208.100.26.199/sdmb/showthread.php?t=319625&page=1&pp=50) which almost made it two months. [This thread is just about this thread](http://208.100.26.199/sdmb/showthread.php?t=206379&page=1&pp=50) which was forced to a day past one month. And other noteworthy exercises in persistence. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-that-can-still-get-posts-after-____-days/397972/4 "2007-03-29T15:41:27Z")
Threads that seem to enjoy longevity are the monthly weight loss threads. Pretty much by definition, they last a month. I’m going for my weekly weigh-in in about 19 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-that-can-still-get-posts-after-____-days/397972/5 "2007-03-29T15:59:29Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Threads that seem to enjoy longevity are the monthly weight loss threads. Pretty much by definition, they last a month. I’m going for my weekly weigh-in in about 19 minutes. [/QUOTE] Point well taken. And I would want to exclude true zombie threads that went months to years between the last contemporaneous post and the “new” one(s) that most likely got the thread closed. In a round-about way, I’m asking for some help in locating threads that managed to keep a topic going for much longer than the typical few days that threads appear to have as a “normal life span.” It’s no big problem to sort the threads I have participated in and check the start date and last date, even if it is somewhat time-consuming. And I’m not really curious enough to start doing that for all threads in these fora. But if others can remember such threads, I am at least interested in seeing what kept them going. ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-that-can-still-get-posts-after-____-days/397972/6 "2007-03-29T16:37:39Z")
What kind of [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=398132) can still get posts after \_\_\_ days? By chance, I am seeing mittu’s friend tonight. I’ll ask him and get back to you. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-that-can-still-get-posts-after-____-days/397972/7 "2007-03-29T16:45:53Z")
[QUOTE=Borborygmi] What kind of [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=398132) can still get posts after \_\_\_ days? By chance, I am seeing mittu’s friend tonight. I’ll ask him and get back to you. [/QUOTE] Your basic counter-example. Conceded. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-that-can-still-get-posts-after-____-days/397972/8 "2007-03-29T16:53:13Z")
Advice to the lovelorn threads can stick for a long time. Everyone’s an expert! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-that-can-still-get-posts-after-____-days/397972/9 "2007-03-29T16:59:03Z")
[QUOTE=Kalhoun] Advice to the lovelorn threads can stick for a long time. Everyone’s an expert! 😉 [/QUOTE] Thanks. You’ve hinted at another indicator of such a thread: many individual posters without one or two seeming to dominate the posting. In a large number of the ones I have checked (including ones where I was a heavy participant) you have two to five who run the post count up and maybe a few dozen who only post once or twice. I would hope the longer-lasting threads would have a better distribution of contributing posters. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-that-can-still-get-posts-after-____-days/397972/10 "2007-03-29T17:02:37Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Thanks. You’ve hinted at another indicator of such a thread: many individual posters without one or two seeming to dominate the posting. In a large number of the ones I have checked (including ones where I was a heavy participant) you have two to five who run the post count up and maybe a few dozen who only post once or twice. I would hope the longer-lasting threads would have a better distribution of contributing posters. [/QUOTE] We’re trying to save people from themselves! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-that-can-still-get-posts-after-____-days/397972/11 "2007-03-29T17:09:04Z")
[QUOTE=Kalhoun] We’re trying to save people from themselves! [/QUOTE] I have an idea how this works, but would you elaborate? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-that-can-still-get-posts-after-____-days/397972/12 "2007-03-29T17:11:08Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] I have an idea how this works, but would you elaborate? [/QUOTE] Sure. Up 1.6 pounds from last week. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-that-can-still-get-posts-after-____-days/397972/13 "2007-03-29T17:14:59Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] I have an idea how this works, but would you elaborate? [/QUOTE] “Don’t take him back! He’s a lying, cheating SOB! I had a boyfriend (blah, blah, blah).” You know the drill. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-that-can-still-get-posts-after-____-days/397972/14 "2007-03-29T17:19:28Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Sure. Up 1.6 pounds from last week. :mad: [/QUOTE] And this is a weight _loss_ concept? Impressive! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-that-can-still-get-posts-after-____-days/397972/15 "2007-03-29T17:21:23Z")
[QUOTE=Kalhoun] “Don’t take him back! He’s a lying, cheating SOB! I had a boyfriend (blah, blah, blah).” You know the drill. [/QUOTE] I get it. Garden variety Tough Love, so to say. I tend to avoid giving advice I have trouble following myself. That goes for most everything except “be careful what you say” sorts of things. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-that-can-still-get-posts-after-____-days/397972/16 "2007-03-29T17:35:03Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] And this is a weight _loss_ concept? Impressive! 😉 [/QUOTE] Sure you can lose negative pounds. Perhaps, much like we changed the term Global Warming, what’s happening to my weight could be called “tdn’s personal mass fluctuation over time.” ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-that-can-still-get-posts-after-____-days/397972/17 "2007-03-29T17:40:51Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Sure you can lose negative pounds. Perhaps, much like we changed the term Global Warming, what’s happening to my weight could be called “tdn’s personal mass fluctuation over time.” [/QUOTE] So to remove any heavy connotations that _watching_ might expose you to, you could go with _Weight Noticers_ as a more passive (and thus fitting in with the current administration’s “mistakes were made”) approach. Maybe there are some even less-committal turns of phrase for such a thing. Weight Acknowledgers Weight Onlookers ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-that-can-still-get-posts-after-____-days/397972/18 "2007-03-29T18:28:53Z")
Let’s call a spade a spade. Body Mass Hopeful Reduction Club for Pay. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-that-can-still-get-posts-after-____-days/397972/19 "2007-03-29T22:24:15Z")
[What’s your favorite YouTube clip right now?](http://208.100.26.199/sdmb/showthread.php?t=398587) has been running since Dec/3/2006. Is there a currently active thread that’s been running longer? Is there one that had more or less steady activity longer than four months? ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-that-can-still-get-posts-after-____-days/397972/20 "2007-03-29T22:40:54Z")
I hate long running threads. I mostly use the New Posts feature to read the Dope, and there are times when I’d really rather see new threads than the same old stupid long running circle jerk threads over and over. I wish there was an Ignore Thread feature, and if enough people use it on a particular thread, then the thread gets closed, kind of like voting someone off American Idol or something. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-that-can-still-get-posts-after-____-days/397972.md?page=2)