# I planted a really large bomb at the SDMB. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 8, 2006, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-planted-a-really-large-bomb-at-the-sdmb/338993 "2006-01-08T07:10:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-planted-a-really-large-bomb-at-the-sdmb/338993/1 "2006-01-08T07:10:33Z")
It’s a bomb. It’s a really, really, really big bomb. The biggest bomb of a thread I’ve ever posted. Possibly the biggest bomb of a thread in the history of mankind. I posted it on August 7, 2003 (Don’t reply to it, as you’ll only be resurrecting a dead thread. Hell, don’t even clink the link, as you’ll be defusing my bomb.): [My summer vacation is here. No outside contact for a week, Ahhhhh…](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=203114) As of right now, it’s had zero replies, and only 12 views. So. Can anyone else claim a bigger bomb (with no replies, and with less views than 12)? If not, what’s your biggest bomb of a thread? Happy ---
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-planted-a-really-large-bomb-at-the-sdmb/338993/2 "2006-01-08T07:12:03Z")
I’d click on your link, but then it’d have, gasp, 13 views! ---
**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-planted-a-really-large-bomb-at-the-sdmb/338993/3 "2006-01-08T07:12:59Z")
That title doesn’t seem like a good idea. ---
**Author:** ![Good\_Egg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@Good\_Egg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Good_Egg)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-planted-a-really-large-bomb-at-the-sdmb/338993/4 "2006-01-08T08:01:54Z")
I posted one with no replies. I don’t remember how many views, it was so boring I don’t even recall the title. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-planted-a-really-large-bomb-at-the-sdmb/338993/5 "2006-01-08T08:13:58Z")
In the past month, I posted a thread in the Cafe gushing about the Meryl Streep/Uma Thurman movie, _Prime_. Zero replies. Probably under ten views. It sank like a stone, and I can’t even find it via a search. Maybe it was culled. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-planted-a-really-large-bomb-at-the-sdmb/338993/6 "2006-01-08T08:24:40Z")
The one rant I recently made about an arcade misadventure I had in the early 90’s: > **[The day I faced death. – Arcade gaming rants of the past.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=348924)** > > Here we go, to the past, when arcade games were always superior to home game consoles… When you had to face the quarter swallowing monsters… Yes, games were still just a quarter. Many times there was a line to wait for the Street fighter II and... It was disappointing to me. I got one reply, but then oblivion. I knew I should have posted it on the Pit! ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-planted-a-really-large-bomb-at-the-sdmb/338993/7 "2006-01-08T10:21:53Z")
I had a thread with 0 replies and 13 views plus many with 0 and low-20s views. I suspect I am on a great many ignore lists. Most of my threads sink like lead rocks. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-planted-a-really-large-bomb-at-the-sdmb/338993/8 "2006-01-08T11:38:21Z")
I don’t have one that old – I haven’t been here long enough – but I did start a thread about a trip to Tijuana (that didn’t end up happening due to time constraints) with 0 replies. April '05, I think. A month or so after I joined. My liver’s too marinated and I’m too lazy to search. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-planted-a-really-large-bomb-at-the-sdmb/338993/9 "2006-01-08T13:41:14Z")
My low point was my 500th post. 0 replies and only 19 views. The only reason I made the post someone else made a big deal of their 500th post and received a bunch of replies. ---
**Author:** ![Lorenzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4da419/32.png) [@Lorenzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lorenzo)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-planted-a-really-large-bomb-at-the-sdmb/338993/10 "2006-01-08T15:29:25Z")
As one with creation of several “zero” threads to my credit, the only thing I’d care to share is, as a lesser-known poster, now I attempt to discern the existence of any potential even fleeting general interest in the content of my thought prior to creation of a new thread. My questions generally run to the obscure and odd. YMMV ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-planted-a-really-large-bomb-at-the-sdmb/338993/11 "2006-01-08T15:44:47Z")
Oh my God! Quick! The blue wire… or the red wire? _Which one will defuse the bomb?!?!_ Oh, wait, you mean _that_ kind of bomb. Yeah, had loads of those. _woeful sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-planted-a-really-large-bomb-at-the-sdmb/338993/12 "2006-01-08T16:55:34Z")
Hunh, my most paltry ‘zero replies’ thread got a whopping 21 views. Obviously I’m way more popular than y’all. OTOH, I’ve never had a thread that went over 150 replies, and only a few that have gone over 50. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-planted-a-really-large-bomb-at-the-sdmb/338993/13 "2006-01-08T17:16:50Z")
I posted a thread in CS about a musician and it got no replies and 1 view. That one view was mine, from when the thread posted. I win. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-planted-a-really-large-bomb-at-the-sdmb/338993/14 "2006-01-08T17:45:21Z")
You win, dude, I can’t compete. My lowest view-count among my zero-reply threads was [25](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=57256). ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-planted-a-really-large-bomb-at-the-sdmb/338993/15 "2006-01-08T17:56:05Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > I posted a thread in CS about a musician and it got no replies and 1 view. That one view was mine, from when the thread posted. > > I win. Yep, you win. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-planted-a-really-large-bomb-at-the-sdmb/338993/16 "2006-01-08T21:57:25Z")
That wasn’t a bomb, it was a _depth charge!_ ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-planted-a-really-large-bomb-at-the-sdmb/338993/17 "2006-01-08T22:38:08Z")
Does this have anything to do with all the zombie threads that keep popping up? ---
**Author:** ![bubastis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d07c76/32.png) [@bubastis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bubastis)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-planted-a-really-large-bomb-at-the-sdmb/338993/18 "2006-01-08T23:19:04Z")
Lately, I posted a cool [game](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=352197) that I hoped would run and run… One reply (thanks Lama Pacos). And also, A million dollar self help [idea](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=352204) … Zero replies. I invested quite a lot of thought into both… ah well. ---
**Author:** ![bubastis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d07c76/32.png) [@bubastis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bubastis)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-planted-a-really-large-bomb-at-the-sdmb/338993/19 "2006-01-08T23:20:52Z")
> [@bubastis](#): > > Lately, I posted a cool [game](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=352197) that I hoped would run and run… One reply (thanks Lama Pacos). > > And also, A million dollar self help [idea](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=352204) … Zero replies. I invested quite a lot of thought into both… ah well. Btw, both of these are fairly recent so I dont think anyones going to get pissed off if you ressurect them. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-planted-a-really-large-bomb-at-the-sdmb/338993/20 "2006-01-09T00:43:10Z")
I found several with 0 replies and views in the low teens. It’s fun, looking through old threads. I saw a lot of familiar names that haven’t been around for awhile. I’m surprised that so many people decided not to register, or maybe they did and changed their User Name. I wonder where they’ve gone and if they know they’re missed. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-planted-a-really-large-bomb-at-the-sdmb/338993.md?page=2)