# MPSIMS Dopers: We need a new term
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-dopers-we-need-a-new-term/19106
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 10, 2000, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-dopers-we-need-a-new-term/19106 "2000-05-10T12:55:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2000, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-dopers-we-need-a-new-term/19106/1 "2000-05-10T12:55:08Z")
We know what a hot thread is.
We know what a cold thread is.
We know what a locked thread is.
Any thread not posted to for awhile, gradualy drops down the first page, pops over to the second page and dies.
Some threads get 15 responses, from 15 different posters, in 15 minutes.
Others are on the front page for five days with only seven posts.
We now know how many views a thread has received, and it astounds me that there is at least one thread that has [one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=23411) post but 68 views!
There’s [one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=23516) with 432 views and only 48 posts.
What are we gonna call a thread that everyone has checked out, but few have posted to?
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### Author:  [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2000, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-dopers-we-need-a-new-term/19106/2 "2000-05-10T12:57:06Z")
Hmmm, let’s see.
A Read & Run Thread? RRT, for short?
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### Author:  [@Babar714](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babar714)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2000, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-dopers-we-need-a-new-term/19106/3 "2000-05-10T13:01:11Z")
For irony’s sake, I beg everyone not to post to this topic.
Seriously though, I submit ‘well-named thread’ or ‘question about Cecil or Slug thread’.
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### Author:  [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2000, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-dopers-we-need-a-new-term/19106/4 "2000-05-10T13:15:03Z")
Howbout we call it a ‘sinker’?
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### Author:  [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2000, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-dopers-we-need-a-new-term/19106/5 "2000-05-10T13:37:11Z")
My vote would be a “driveby thread”.
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### Author:  [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2000, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-dopers-we-need-a-new-term/19106/6 "2000-05-10T13:43:53Z")
Prom Queen.
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### Author:  [@Tally-Ho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tally-Ho)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2000, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-dopers-we-need-a-new-term/19106/7 "2000-05-10T13:46:06Z")
A “view-only” thread?
A “chance-glance”? (CG thread, for short)
A peek-a-boo?
I like “driveby” too
Chrisbar
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### Author:  [@Erroneous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erroneous)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2000, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-dopers-we-need-a-new-term/19106/8 "2000-05-10T13:48:58Z")
Wow, my own “driveby thread” was mentioned. That’s a start, at least. It has TWO posts now…I added another one.
Please be my guest to follow the link to it that ChiefScott provided and view it for yourselves, but be sure to not actually post anything. We can’t have that.
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### Author:  [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2000, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-dopers-we-need-a-new-term/19106/9 "2000-05-10T13:50:14Z")
Since most of the time it’s the title of the thread that catches most people’s attention, why not call it a “Caught My Eye” thread or “CME” Thread for short.
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2000, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-dopers-we-need-a-new-term/19106/10 "2000-05-10T14:19:13Z")
I like Drive By Thread.
How about: Low Post Count.
I’ve always thought of the High Views but Low Post Count sort like the Weekly World News. Everyone reads its, but few will admit to it.
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### Author:  [@Babar714](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babar714)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2000, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-dopers-we-need-a-new-term/19106/11 "2000-05-10T14:30:14Z")
two votes for ‘drive-by’ and I like ‘read and run’, so two for that.
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### Author:  [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2000, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-dopers-we-need-a-new-term/19106/12 "2000-05-10T14:32:34Z")
I’ve got [one over in General Questions](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=23992) that has 458 views and only 14 posts. A glance at other “high-view” threads in GQ and MPSIMS shows that I am the current low-post-per-view champeen in the “over 400 views” category.
I agree that a new term would be welcome.
How 'bout a “Pam Anderson” thread. Looks great from a distance, but when you get up close–bleeah! Or Good to look at, but not someplace you want to, ahem, leave your mark.
Am I being gross? Sorry.
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### Author:  [@SqrlCub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SqrlCub)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2000, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-dopers-we-need-a-new-term/19106/13 "2000-05-10T14:34:56Z")
I vote for drive-by thread. It seems I have started a bunch of those. 🙂
HUGS!
Sqrl
PS. I am attempting to get all the last responses to be me on the board. (HEHEHE, I am giddy with anticipation.)
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### Author:  [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2000, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-dopers-we-need-a-new-term/19106/14 "2000-05-10T14:38:42Z")
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> I’ve got [one over in General Questions](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=23992) that has 458 views and only 14 posts. A glance at other “high-view” threads in GQ and MPSIMS shows that I am the current low-post-per-view champeen in the “over 400 views” category.
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I should say, before you all chime in with your calculations, that I only looked at the threads on the first page of each forum.
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### Author:  [@DVous\_Means](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DVous_Means)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2000, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-dopers-we-need-a-new-term/19106/15 "2000-05-10T15:34:03Z")
As someone who does a lot of this, I like the drive-by label too.
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### Author:  [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2000, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-dopers-we-need-a-new-term/19106/16 "2000-05-10T16:16:12Z")
How about a _POST?_ ( **P** iece **O** f **S** hit **T** hread)
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2000, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-dopers-we-need-a-new-term/19106/17 "2000-05-10T21:23:38Z")
:::snicker:::Pamela Anderson Thread does make me chuckle.
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### Author:  [@Catrandom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catrandom)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2000, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-dopers-we-need-a-new-term/19106/18 "2000-05-10T21:35:21Z")
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> How about a _POST?_ ( **P** iece **O** f **S** hit **T** hread)
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Well, it might not actually be a _bad_ thread. Perhaps in some of these threads the OP is so concise and articulate that there is simply nothing more to be said.
(Yes, I’ve started a couple myself…)
I vote for “driveby.” It’s not the best analogy, of course, since the point of an actual driveby is to make a point rather than pass unnoticed. But what the heck, it’s catchy.
Catrandom
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### Author:  [@Jeannie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeannie)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2000, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-dopers-we-need-a-new-term/19106/19 "2000-05-10T22:04:11Z")
I vote for drive-by.
Although “read and run” has a nice ring to it. Maybe we could use “R&R” for short?
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### Author:  [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2000, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-dopers-we-need-a-new-term/19106/20 "2000-05-10T22:11:32Z")
Hey! I like Wonko’s “sinker” idea myself, (I’ve contributed my fair share of Inky Sinkers in my day).
The ones on the front page all week with a feeble ten or eleven are Submarines: sinking and rising, sinking and rising.
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