# How long before The Game Room passes Great Debates in number of post? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 1, 2008, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-the-game-room-passes-great-debates-in-number-of-post/439756 "2008-03-01T18:14:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-the-game-room-passes-great-debates-in-number-of-post/439756/1 "2008-03-01T18:14:56Z")
As of right now, Great Debates is sitting at 971,862 posts. It is the only major forum on the site that has not passed the one million mark. In a little over a week, The Game Room has already racked up 32,809 posts and it’s only growing. So how long do you think it will take The Game Room to surpass Great Debates? Weeks, months, years? Will the start of baseball season push it forward. What about Grand Theft Auto 4 and Super Smash Bros Brawl? Or the untethered game threads and more Family Feud than we can keep up with? Do you think it’ll never happen? Will the upcoming election cause a surge of GD posting that will put it’s post count out of reach of TGR? Or will a summer after the primaries but before the election cause a drop that will make it vulnerable? Or is this just “new board smell” and participation in TGR will drop off soon? So what say you? ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-the-game-room-passes-great-debates-in-number-of-post/439756/2 "2008-03-01T18:28:28Z")
Shouldn’t this thread be in Great Debates? ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-the-game-room-passes-great-debates-in-number-of-post/439756/3 "2008-03-01T18:29:41Z")
I thought it was more like a guessing game… with a little debate and conversation thrown in. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-the-game-room-passes-great-debates-in-number-of-post/439756/4 "2008-03-01T19:09:56Z")
I dunno. I think more video game discussions are going to come out and if this forum were around before Halo 3 or Call of Duty came out, this forum would have swollen because of those two games. Then again, you guys are weird and tend to not like the same games that everyone else in the universe likes. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-the-game-room-passes-great-debates-in-number-of-post/439756/5 "2008-03-01T19:19:58Z")
You have to take into account that a ton of those posts were just transfered from cafe society. Those aren’t all new posts. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-the-game-room-passes-great-debates-in-number-of-post/439756/6 "2008-03-01T19:36:48Z")
Well, it is growing at a pretty accelerated pace. I’m all OVER this new forum. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-the-game-room-passes-great-debates-in-number-of-post/439756/7 "2008-03-01T19:38:49Z")
Better we might ask: How long before TGR overtakes Cafe Society? How long till it has to be split off into **The Game Dope** , A Service of the Straight Dope? ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-the-game-room-passes-great-debates-in-number-of-post/439756/8 "2008-03-01T19:38:59Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] Well, it is growing at a pretty accelerated pace. I’m all OVER this new forum. [/QUOTE] I like it also, haven’t spent much time at the other forums lately. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-the-game-room-passes-great-debates-in-number-of-post/439756/9 "2008-03-01T19:46:20Z")
[QUOTE=MadTheSwine] I like it also, haven’t spent much time at the other forums lately. [/QUOTE] I’ve been moving away from MPSIMS and Cafe Society and towards here and Great Debates these days. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-the-game-room-passes-great-debates-in-number-of-post/439756/10 "2008-03-01T20:54:07Z")
How long before it spins off sports.? ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-the-game-room-passes-great-debates-in-number-of-post/439756/11 "2008-03-01T20:58:35Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] Better we might ask: How long before TGR overtakes Cafe Society? [/QUOTE] I’m not sure that will ever happen. Cafe Society is in a bit of a lull because there’s not a lot of new TV lately, but as soon as stuff starts coming back (and summer movie discussions pick up), it’ll surge ahead of any pace TGR could keep up. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-the-game-room-passes-great-debates-in-number-of-post/439756/12 "2008-03-01T20:59:19Z")
[QUOTE=gonzomax] How long before it spins off sports.? [/QUOTE] It won’t. Not with the amount of whining it took to get THIS new forum. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-the-game-room-passes-great-debates-in-number-of-post/439756/13 "2008-03-01T22:02:32Z")
[QUOTE=gonzomax] How long before it spins off sports.? [/QUOTE] I think the better question is how long before game threads like Mafia, Family Feud and Charitible/Uncharitible (and this thread for that matter) get split off into their own subforum. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-the-game-room-passes-great-debates-in-number-of-post/439756/14 "2008-03-01T22:08:36Z")
I’ve heard rumors about a Freecell forum.