# Maximum thread length **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 9, 2003, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-thread-length/147481 "2003-01-09T08:29:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Asylum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@Asylum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asylum)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-thread-length/147481/1 "2003-01-09T08:29:49Z")
I just noticed that the /.ed LotR thread is pushing twenty pages. Before the board upgrade a thread would usually make it five or so pages before a mod would close it due to board strain. Since the upgrade I haven’t seen a mod close a single thread due to length. Was the upgrade so good that thread length is now irrelevent? ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-thread-length/147481/2 "2003-01-09T09:16:47Z")
i’m waiting to see if it reaches 200000 views or 1000 replies first… ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-thread-length/147481/3 "2003-01-09T09:24:17Z")
It may be that closing the thread due to size would appear unreasonable or heavy-handed to all the non-members that are currently following the thread. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-thread-length/147481/4 "2003-01-09T09:29:27Z")
We used to regularly close threads when they reached 5 or 10 pages in the bad old days when it seemed long threads were a drain on resources. They no longer seem to be as much of a problem as they used to be, so we usually let them grow. ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-thread-length/147481/5 "2003-01-09T11:42:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tars Tarkas \* > \*\*i’m waiting to see if it reaches 200000 views or 1000 replies first… \*\* It just hit 1,000/197,378. ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-thread-length/147481/6 "2003-01-09T11:47:58Z")
(Of course, I cheated by actually _making_ the 1,000th post). ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-thread-length/147481/7 "2003-01-09T13:19:49Z")
Weasel! ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-thread-length/147481/8 "2003-01-09T13:56:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jonathan Chance \* > \*\*Weasel! \*\* Hah. How many dopers can say they’ve made the 1000th post to a thread. I can. 😛 Also of note for the record: at this time the thread has fallen to half way down the page and is at at 1,009/198,620. I haven’t been monitoring it continuously, of course, but this is the first time that I’ve seen it out of the top 5 on the page. ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-thread-length/147481/9 "2003-01-09T14:24:39Z")
Well, it’s back in the top three again with 1016 posts and 199212 (!) thread views. ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-thread-length/147481/10 "2003-01-09T14:37:59Z")
Moderators: Is there any plan to take action on the thread if it gets too long, for whatever reason? ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-thread-length/147481/11 "2003-01-09T14:52:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Desmostylus \* > **Hah. How many dopers can say they’ve made the 1000th post to a thread.** I can even answer my own question (after a bit of research.) The LOTR thread is the only one in Cafe Society with more than 1,000 replies. There have been 3 threads in MPSIMS with more than 1,000 replies. There have been no other threads in other forums that exceeded 1,000 replies. So the answer is “Four dopers can say they’ve made the 1,000th post to a thread”. ---
**Author:** ![SC\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@SC\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SC_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-thread-length/147481/12 "2003-01-09T15:14:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Desmostylus \* > \*\*So the answer is “Four dopers can say they’ve made the 1,000th post to a thread”. \*\* Ah, but did one poster have the 1000th post in more than one of those MPSIMS threads? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-thread-length/147481/13 "2003-01-09T15:15:27Z")
It went 1,017/200,000. ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-thread-length/147481/14 "2003-01-09T15:27:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SC\_Wolf \* > \*\*Ah, but did one poster have the 1000th post in more than one of those MPSIMS threads? 😉 \*\* Good point. “Two, three or four dopers can say they’ve made the 1,000th post to a thread”. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-thread-length/147481/15 "2003-01-09T15:56:35Z")
200,000 views. God _damn_ ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-thread-length/147481/16 "2003-01-09T16:09:12Z")
201, 051 Is this a record? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Clawman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@The\_Clawman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Clawman)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-thread-length/147481/17 "2003-01-09T16:33:44Z")
I won’t search again now that the server load is so high, but a week or so ago “Funny things said during sex” in MPSIMS was the highest with just over 38,000 views. A record well and truly smashed. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-thread-length/147481/18 "2003-01-09T18:03:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Desmostylus \* > \*\*It just hit 1,000/197,378. \*\* Thanx for letting me know, i had to go to bed for work, so i couldn’t stay up checking on it all night. It would have drove me crazy if i didn’t know which came first (though i suspected 1000 replies), but i’m weird like that ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-thread-length/147481/19 "2003-01-09T19:23:57Z")
Damn. A person goes to the ER for a few hours and 1031 posts and 203, 851 views. Yowza.