# The fastest thread on the SDMB **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 27, 2008, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fastest-thread-on-the-sdmb/442899 "2008-03-27T07:23:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DangleYourModifier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@DangleYourModifier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DangleYourModifier)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fastest-thread-on-the-sdmb/442899/1 "2008-03-27T07:23:33Z")
(I’m not sure if this is in the right forum?) Being in a different time zone to the majority of posters on this board I often come in at the end of a thread and have to spend some time catching up. While reading the [24/7 slave](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=460770) thread and the [Pit Thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=460797) spinoff (and the other ones - tickling and Sadist) I realised it took me most of my morning to catch up. It was great fun but an incredible waste of time. Now the Pit thread has reached 16 pages with over 24000 views and over 700 responses. The original thread is 6 pages, over 13000 views. This got me thinking - what has been the fastest growing thread. (pardon the terminology - don’t really know what to call it) Also what is the longest thread ever? Most views? Most responses? I have no idea how to search for this. ---
**Author:** ![DangleYourModifier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@DangleYourModifier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DangleYourModifier)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fastest-thread-on-the-sdmb/442899/2 "2008-03-27T07:25:24Z")
I thought of another question. Is there any way of telling what the average length of a thread is and how long it stays on the front page. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fastest-thread-on-the-sdmb/442899/3 "2008-03-27T08:19:46Z")
The pitting of [Scott Plaid](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=323762) was the fastest growing, long thread that I’ve seen (and recall.) 1074 posts in 15 days, which I believe amounts to a new post every 20 minutes, and if you look back, things seem to still be going strong until a mod locks it first thing in the morning before people have a chance to start in again. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fastest-thread-on-the-sdmb/442899/4 "2008-03-27T12:18:31Z")
[World Trade Center Plane Crash](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=86458). To quote the New York Times: It kept getting worse. ---
**Author:** ![Surok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@Surok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surok)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fastest-thread-on-the-sdmb/442899/5 "2008-03-27T12:41:20Z")
[QUOTE=Sage Rat] The pitting of [Scott Plaid](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=323762) was the fastest growing, long thread that I’ve seen (and recall.) [/QUOTE] Was he the **TLDR** of those times? ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fastest-thread-on-the-sdmb/442899/6 "2008-03-27T12:45:02Z")
[QUOTE=Surok] Was he the **TLDR** of those times? [/QUOTE] Not really. He wasn’t pitted regularly and didn’t start trollish threads. Rather annoyance at him and his poor grammar and debating skills slowly built up until it all got released in one big rush. And then he got better. 🙂 VCO3/TLDR never improved, and was eventually banned. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fastest-thread-on-the-sdmb/442899/7 "2008-03-27T13:47:37Z")
I’m pretty sure the fastest and longest SDMB thread EVER is still the old monster thread from The Olden Days when the SDMB was on AOL: “Who is Mr. Ruda Duda”. I am not kidding when I say that this thread got 100+ posts a day for weeks and weeks on end. It started when someone (presumably) wanted to know who Mr. Ruda Duda was, but got hijacked into an argument about ageism. And IIRC, the thread split (as happened quite frequently on AOL), with one half of the thread being devoted to an almost equally fervent argument about who was the greatest point guard in NBA history, or something like that. It was completely insane. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fastest-thread-on-the-sdmb/442899/8 "2008-03-27T13:49:34Z")
So… who _is_ Mr Ruda Duda? ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fastest-thread-on-the-sdmb/442899/9 "2008-03-27T13:56:32Z")
[QUOTE=Priceguy] So… who _is_ Mr Ruda Duda? [/QUOTE] I dunno. That part of the thread was dealt with before I noticed its existence. By the time I ever opened it, the Dopers had already started in with the arguing. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fastest-thread-on-the-sdmb/442899/10 "2008-03-27T14:14:55Z")
[QUOTE=Sage Rat] The pitting of [Scott Plaid](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=323762) was the fastest growing, long thread that I’ve seen (and recall.) 1074 posts in 15 days, which I believe amounts to a new post every 20 minutes, and if you look back, things seem to still be going strong until a mod locks it first thing in the morning before people have a chance to start in again. [/QUOTE] Wow. That is amazing. Just reading that thread made me want to bang my head repeatedly on my keyboard. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Dave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/46a35a/32.png) [@Great\_Dave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Dave)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fastest-thread-on-the-sdmb/442899/11 "2008-03-27T14:53:32Z")
Some of the post parties back in 2000 got pretty big pretty fast, but I don’t know if any got as long as the Scott Plaid incident. Maybe Guy Stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fastest-thread-on-the-sdmb/442899/12 "2008-03-27T15:36:39Z")
Some of the game threads were pretty fast. It would be pretty tough to judge though. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Shroud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@The\_Shroud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Shroud)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fastest-thread-on-the-sdmb/442899/13 "2008-03-27T17:05:39Z")
There was that recent thread that started off with an OP about bad driving. I thought nothing of it, looked at it a few hours later, and it was like 8 pages of mostly nothing to do with the OP. (I assume it was some kind of Doper “post random stuff” tradition, which I somehow missed in spite of lurking then posting here for years.) ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fastest-thread-on-the-sdmb/442899/14 "2008-03-27T17:17:30Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] [World Trade Center Plane Crash](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=86458). To quote the New York Times: It kept getting worse. [/QUOTE] That one went to 400 posts in a little over 9 hours. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fastest-thread-on-the-sdmb/442899/15 "2008-03-27T18:10:35Z")
[QUOTE=The Shroud] There was that recent thread that started off with an OP about bad driving. I thought nothing of it, looked at it a few hours later, and it was like 8 pages of mostly nothing to do with the OP. (I assume it was some kind of Doper “post random stuff” tradition, which I somehow missed in spite of lurking then posting here for years.) [/QUOTE] The MMP? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fastest-thread-on-the-sdmb/442899/16 "2008-03-27T19:59:49Z")
Moving thread from IMHO to ATMB. ---
**Author:** ![CapnPitt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/edb3f5/32.png) [@CapnPitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CapnPitt)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fastest-thread-on-the-sdmb/442899/17 "2008-03-27T20:54:27Z")
I didn’t participate in the **Scott Plaid** pitting, but boy I had wanted to Pit him for a long time. Then by the time the Pit thread had started, it seemed like everybody else had said everything, said it well, and said it _really_ quickly. I didn’t feel like piling on, but had I known it was going to go on that long, I’d have at least taken a shot. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fastest-thread-on-the-sdmb/442899/18 "2008-03-27T21:26:39Z")
Last I knew, the longest thread by post count was the “a” thread in MPSIMS, which started out as an accidental post and turned into a very long-running, very pointless game. The longest thread by word count, meanwhile, was Cafe Society’s “What if Lord of the Rings had been written by someone else”, which was only fifth or so in pos count, but most of the posts were long. That one also got linked on many other sites, and the time when it was active stands out as the single largest anomoly on the SDMB activity logs. ---
**Author:** ![Guestimate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Guestimate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guestimate)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fastest-thread-on-the-sdmb/442899/19 "2008-03-27T21:35:03Z")
Hello, This seems sort of on topic, and this way I won’t be starting a thread and look super pathetic BUT (DARN I DONT KNOW HOW TO POST THE LINK) after lurking for a couple of years, then joining in 2006= the mom 24/7 slave thread is the first one I EVER started. I admit it I am thrilled. I really did it without thinking about it, I was upset at the time. Am I right, that’s it’s wonderfully long for a first OP??? ``` hhooorrraaayyyyy I brought lots of pie!! ``` ---
**Author:** ![The\_Shroud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@The\_Shroud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Shroud)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fastest-thread-on-the-sdmb/442899/20 "2008-03-28T04:05:07Z")
[QUOTE=Sage Rat] The MMP? [/QUOTE] Yup, that was it.