I nominate this thread: So, uh, how do I deepthroat without gagging? - In My Humble Opinion - Straight Dope Message Board
As of the time of this post, it has 99 posts (98 responses plus the OP) and 558,107 views, a view/post ratio of 5,637. What compares?
[I imagine the deal with this thread is that it got a lot of attention from non-Dopers doing random internet searches on the subject.]
Like->unlike rapidly on facebook: 209,747 views, 13 replies, 16134 views/replies.
Are we counting stickies? Because Real Life Meetings of Members has two posts and 34,918 views (17,459 : 1), and The MMP FAQ has 25,668 views and only 1 post.
Outside of stickies, nothing else in MPSIMS meets the same ratio: I checked by going to the forum page, viewing all threads since the beginning, and sorting by number of views. Since any thread with a higher ratio must necessarily have more than 16134 views, it didn’t take long to search through them manually.
Checking a couple more forums, IMHO doesn’t have anything that competes, sticky or no.
In ATMB, FAQs - Please Read First - Rules, Guidelines, Etiquette, Technical Issues unsurprisingly gets 50,144 views with only 2 posts, but that still puts it a hair behind the MMP FAQ. Why we require subscriptions, and how to subscribe has a whopping 145,336 views with only three posts, but that would be a former sticky, as was Beginner’s Guide to Glossary of Terms on Straight Dope Message Boards (34,838:2). Nothing else in ATMB looks close.
In GQ, we get an unqualified new champion: Did Edward Mordrake realy exist and if so, did he have two faces?, with 185,470 views, and 10 total posts (18,547 : 1). And another champion yet: Netflix on iPad: remove from “Continue Watching” list?, with 121,948 views and 4 posts (30,487 : 1). Even better is How much would paving 1/4 mile of road cost?, at 99,647 : 3 (33,232 :1).
I’m not going to go through all of the fora like this, and I skipped over some that weren’t as high as the current champ, but the 1/4 mile looks like the current champ, unless the former-sticky why we require subscriptions counts.
Addendum: OK, I checked the Pit, too. There are some real monsters in there, but it falls off quickly, and the monsters have a lot of replies, too. No new champ.
Ooh, a new champ! In Comments, there’s Cholera Belt, with 41,793 views to its solitary OP. This might not count, though, since it appears to be one of the very first threads on the board (possibly the first non-test thread), and surely owes its notoriety to that fact, and not to any content.
CS has Does anybody know what happened to actress Frances Conroy’s eye?, almost a contender at 330,723:10 (33,072 : 1).
…and, that’s it, I guess I did check all of the forums, after all. Why yes, I do have other things I should be doing, why do you ask?