# Please Do Not Respond To This Thread

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-do-not-respond-to-this-thread/159412>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 6, 2003, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-do-not-respond-to-this-thread/159412 "2003-03-06T03:44:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![djf750](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@djf750](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/djf750)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-do-not-respond-to-this-thread/159412/1 "2003-03-06T03:44:36Z")

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One lonely night I discovered that you could search the archives by number of hits and number of replies. I thought it would be funny to go and reply to a thread with 0 (zero) replies from say 2 years ago.

I started reading them, and I swear that unless i just made something up that wasn’t really a reply, I could not think of a good reply to ANY of them.

They all deserved 0 replies.

Now i want a thread with zero replies. And I am willing to bet at least one a-hole will reply to this thread.

Prove me wrong.

DO NOT REPLY TO THIS THREAD.

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**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-do-not-respond-to-this-thread/159412/2 "2003-03-06T03:50:36Z")

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Statistics are fun, but there’s no point in trying to “create” a thread with zero replies and tons of views.

So, not only am I responding to it, I’m also locking it.

A lock gets you tons of views, though.