# Most popular threads by forum **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 25, 2008, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-threads-by-forum/465168 "2008-09-25T16:31:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2008, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-threads-by-forum/465168/1 "2008-09-25T16:31:04Z")
I have recently seen several different candidates mentioned as the most popular. I suggested that the A thread had the most replies and the [If LotR Had Been Written By Someone Else!?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=138905) had the most views. In the interest in fighting ignorance, albeit Mundane & Pointless Stuff here are the forum by forum results. Game Threads generate the most replies but not the most views by a long shot. The most viewed thread of all time on the SDMB is [If LotR Had Been Written By Someone Else!?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=138905) Followed by Scylla’s brilliant [The horror of blimps](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=160851). It turns out the most posted to is actually the [a](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=158752) thread. It had 5,337 posts **Threads with most replies.** TGR: [Mafia V: The Cult of Sekham](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=426256)[4353](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/misc.php?do=whoposted&t=426256) GQ: [Are scalar weapons for real?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=202225)[1,017](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/misc.php?do=whoposted&t=202225) BBQ: [Lying whore](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=366822). [1,707](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/misc.php?do=whoposted&t=366822) MPSIMS: [a](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=158752) [5,337](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/misc.php?do=whoposted&t=158752) Café: #1 [All Diablo2 Talk here…](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=176500)[2,814](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/misc.php?do=whoposted&t=176500) Café: #2[If LotR Had Been Written By Someone Else!?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=138905)[2,041](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/misc.php?do=whoposted&t=138905) IMHO: [Spit or Swallow? A followup poll TMI?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=173531)[1,032](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/misc.php?do=whoposted&t=173531) GD: [Fork Hillary 3: The Final Forking](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=460140)[2,949](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/misc.php?do=whoposted&t=460140) ATMB: [The SDMB is switching to paid subscriptions](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=269127)[668](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/misc.php?do=whoposted&t=269127) CCC: [Flight and the Conveyor Belt](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=357014) [536](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/misc.php?do=whoposted&t=357014) CSR: [Edgar Cayce](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=452697)[183](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/misc.php?do=whoposted&t=452697) **Threads with most views.** TGR: [Werewolf a game Part 2 (this time with MAFIA!)](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=414041) 90,284 GQ: [Is there any reason that semen would be bad for my fish](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=249524)? 76,117 BBQ: [The horror of blimps](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=160851)392,132 MPSIMS: [Funny things said during love making/intimate moments](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=24960)… 89,528 Café: [If LotR Had Been Written By Someone Else!?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=138905)472,509 (BTW: 2nd in Café is only 47,356) IMHO: [Very vaguely creepy](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=30758). 37,501 GD: [I waterboard](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=448717)! 155,246 ATMB: [Sticky: Beginner’s Guide to Glossary of Terms on Straight Dope Message Boards](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=320298) 14,130 CCC: [Damn fool war](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=176563)21,324 CSR: [Why you should never sign the back of credit cards](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=388559)6,035 This mundane and silly service brought to you by Jim. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2008, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-threads-by-forum/465168/2 "2008-09-25T16:44:47Z")
Neat. How cool would it be to get THIS thread on your list? ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2008, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-threads-by-forum/465168/3 "2008-09-25T17:28:33Z")
Nah! It’ll never happen. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2008, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-threads-by-forum/465168/4 "2008-09-25T17:37:45Z")
I suspect the ‘a’ thread will eventually fall as some of the Mafia Game threads are already getting into its range and I know a few of the D&D Setups threads could eventually grow to that size given a few years of slow posting. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2008, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-threads-by-forum/465168/5 "2008-09-25T17:46:25Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > I suspect the ‘a’ thread will eventually fall as some of the Mafia Game threads are already getting into its range and I know a few of the D&D Setups threads could eventually grow to that size given a few years of slow posting. I know there was a point durring Mafia: Seekham where we were actively trying to get the post count above “a”'s post count. I think those glory days of huge mafia games are over though. If our ME D&D game was all kept to a single thread it would absolutely pass all of them by eventually. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2008, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-threads-by-forum/465168/6 "2008-09-25T17:55:26Z")
> [@NAF1138](#): > > I know there was a point durring Mafia: Seekham where we were actively trying to get the post count above “a”'s post count. I think those glory days of huge mafia games are over though. If our ME D&D game was all kept to a single thread it would absolutely pass all of them by eventually. We’re on the fifth thread and they total 4,689. So the collection would soon pass the \*\*a \*\*thread but it would be unmanagable and where the \*\*a \*\*thread had dozens of posters, we only have a little over a dozen. D & D on the Straight Dope setup thread. (In Middle Earth FA63) 1,159 Middle Earth FA63 D&D Game, the Game itself. 966 Middle Earth FA63 D&D Game, the Second Adventure, Scouting Ered Lithui. 991 Middle Earth FA63 D&D Game, Third Adventure, Ered Lithui Mystery Creature 1,446 Middle Earth FA63 D&D Game. Fourth Adventure. Journey to Rivendell 127