It must have happened to all of us, that promising young thread that we release carefree into the crowded and dangerous messageboard.
Gamefully it frolics across the wide inviting forum until suddenly Bamm ! the bottom of the page springs out of nowhere leaving the poor young thing mortally wounded. In desperation we try to recusitate it with a sureptitious bump, but to no avail the title that we gave it did indeed suck and no one is looking at it, thus it sinks slowly into the coma that is yesterdays post’s beyond all real hopes of recovery.
So do you have any nominations of threads either your own or someone else’s that you feel died unjustly before their time ?
And no I am not abusing illegal herbage (the first two paragraphs just sort of happened)
Dopers in the mist
I was bummed. I put some time and effort into crafting this baby. If not for the assistance of Scylla and a few others, it would have been a total flop.
My hypothesis (based on my own experience), the words “Asheville, North Carolina” in the title pretty much kills it for people who neither live, nor have been to ‘Asheville, North Carolina’.
The OP might well be the most interesting thing on the planet. but if most dopers are anything like me, they will have seen your thread and said (or thought) “never been there. not clicking”
This is why I am a big proponent of ‘clever’ thread titles as opposed to ‘meaningful’ or ‘descriptive’ ones.
Two of my most memorable flops (memorable to me as I am sure everyone else forgot about them if they ever saw them in the first place):
I started a thread asking people what things they remember about riding the school bus. With all the things that I observed going on I thought for sure I’d see some real gems turn up. How disappointed I was.
I once asked people to submit hypothetical SDMB posts that would appear on this board 20 years from now. This, too, sank like a brick into the ocean, but I thought it might be a hit.
