# Thread with the highest Views:Replies ratio **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 8, 2006, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-with-the-highest-views-replies-ratio/363625 "2006-07-08T13:44:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2006, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-with-the-highest-views-replies-ratio/363625/1 "2006-07-08T13:44:35Z")
At the moment, the thread [Movie Romances You Found Extremely Disturbing (though they weren’t supposed to be)](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=364623) has 180 Replies but 11,415 Views. That’s pretty high, I submit. I wouldn’t label this as an “unsuccessful” thread by any measure, since it’s on its fourth page and got a reply just two days ago. But it does appear to be one of those threads that many View without doing a Reply. From time to time I do a vanity search to see if threads I posted to have had new responses since my last visit. That’s how I spotted this one. I went back maybe 20 pages in my vanity search and couldn’t find a thread with at least 100 Replies and with more than 11,415 Views. Can you? What’s the record for the Views/Replies quotient? ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2006, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-with-the-highest-views-replies-ratio/363625/2 "2006-07-08T13:54:01Z")
You want to see how badly I can beat that one? [The Horror Of Blimps](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=160851&highlight=blimps) by Scylla has 241 replies but **200,195** replies. Someone else can check Evil Nazi Groundhogs by him as well. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2006, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-with-the-highest-views-replies-ratio/363625/3 "2006-07-08T13:58:29Z")
[QUOTE=Shagnasty] You want to see how badly I can beat that one? [The Horror Of Blimps](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=160851&highlight=blimps) by Scylla has 241 replies but **200,195** replies. Someone else can check Evil Nazi Groundhogs by him as well. [/QUOTE] Great Scott! ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-with-the-highest-views-replies-ratio/363625/4 "2006-07-10T00:51:51Z")
Who’s your daddy? ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-with-the-highest-views-replies-ratio/363625/5 "2006-07-10T02:58:58Z")
[QUOTE=Scylla] Who’s your daddy? [/QUOTE] **Satisfying Andy Licious**. His thread, [Arnett: We had to destroy the village in order to save it?](http://http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=174030), has fifteen replies and 32,204 views for a 1:2147 post to view ratio, 2.6 times your blimp thread. And **Lynn Bodoni** would be (y)our mother with the 1:4089 [Pit Rules](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=127729) (4.9 your thread; 1.9 his) but I don’t think it should qualify with it being an administrative thread. My own seem to fall in the 1:30 to 1:40 range although I was surprised to discover that a thread started by me is both the second highest viewed and third most posted to thread in General Questions to date. ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-with-the-highest-views-replies-ratio/363625/6 "2006-07-10T05:25:23Z")
Okay, when I first saw this thread I thought the title was "thread with the highest views:reptiles ratio. I had to stop in and see what that was all about, but now I am sad by the lack of reptiles in this thread. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-with-the-highest-views-replies-ratio/363625/7 "2006-07-10T12:56:12Z")
[QUOTE=pbbth] Okay, when I first saw this thread I thought the title was "thread with the highest views:reptiles ratio. I had to stop in and see what that was all about, but now I am sad by the lack of reptiles in this thread. 😉 [/QUOTE] I do that sort of thing way too often. I don’t think it’s just my eyesight either. More of an optical illusion caused by a mental counterpart. (Surely there’s a name for that other than brainfart, right?) ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-with-the-highest-views-replies-ratio/363625/8 "2006-07-10T13:39:18Z")
Every one of the many, many threads with zero replies has an infinite views-to-replies ratio. (Come on, this board is loaded with anal-retentive mathemtical types. You _knew_ somebody was going to point that out eventually!) Among zero-reply threads, we can only compare the number of views. At the moment, in GQ, there’s a question about astronaut rescue that has 174 views and no replies. This is an unusually large number; usually a difficult question or topic will get about 100 views before it sinks out of sight or draws a reply. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-with-the-highest-views-replies-ratio/363625/9 "2006-07-10T14:03:49Z")
The reverse phenomenon is also interesting: threads with very _low_ views-to-replies ratios. The trick to drawing few views and lots of replies is to phrase the question so that (a) people who aren’t interested will blow off the thread completely; but (b) among people who _are_ interested, absolutely everybody will have an opinion and reply. Questions about cats meet both criteria. “Why is my cat indulging in this particular (adorable but unusual) behavior” will inevitably draw a views-to-replies ratio approaching 1.000.