# Record for fastest growing thread/topic? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 28, 2022, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/record-for-fastest-growing-thread-topic/970460 "2022-08-28T03:45:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2022, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/record-for-fastest-growing-thread-topic/970460/1 "2022-08-28T03:45:52Z")
I guess this belongs here, rather than, say, FQ. The thread on the Aug. 8 search at Mar-a-Lago has accumulated nearly 2,000 posts in less than three weeks. This seems extraordinarily fast. But is it a record? Is there a relatively simple way in Discourse, or was there in VB, to track how rapidly threads grow, either in general, or to certain milestones, like 1,000, 2,000, etc? I’m not looking for total number of posts; that’s fairly easy to find. Rather, the rate of growth. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2022, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/record-for-fastest-growing-thread-topic/970460/2 "2022-08-28T06:03:03Z")
Well it’ll help to define a time limit. The rate of growth in the first 24 hours? First week? Month? With this you’ll be able to get a definitive answer. Without it, answers can be all over the place. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2022, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/record-for-fastest-growing-thread-topic/970460/3 "2022-08-28T06:55:37Z")
theres various "popular thread "awards you can get at certain points in a threads history ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2022, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/record-for-fastest-growing-thread-topic/970460/4 "2022-08-28T11:41:21Z")
I remember threads from 9/11 that grew quickly. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2022, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/record-for-fastest-growing-thread-topic/970460/5 "2022-08-28T11:52:34Z")
I recall the Jerry Sandusky scandal being a very active thread. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2022, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/record-for-fastest-growing-thread-topic/970460/6 "2022-09-01T00:00:46Z")
It’s hard to tell because old threads aren’t really time stamped, but it looks like this thread on 9/11 was started just after the first plane hit. Near the end the thread there’s a post about an announcement at 3:15 Pacific time, or 6:15 Eastern time. The mods then closed the thread at 400 posts, which would mean the last post was probably about 9 1/2 hours after the first - an average of more than 40 posts per hour. > [@World Trade Center Plane Crash](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850): > > I’ve just heard about this from a friend, and I’m wondering if anyone has details - how bad it is, exactly what happened, anything? If it’s as bad as it’s been made out to me so far… my greatest sympathies go to the families of everyone involved. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2022, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/record-for-fastest-growing-thread-topic/970460/7 "2022-09-01T02:02:43Z")
9/11 was a few months before I joined the SDMB. Visiting that thread will be, umm… interesting.