# Threads you started: Success vs. Failure **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 4, 2003, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-you-started-success-vs-failure/186227 "2003-07-04T13:11:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-you-started-success-vs-failure/186227/41 "2003-08-23T21:10:13Z")
I haven’t been here long enough to be on anyone’s radar. (I hope! 🙂 ) The other board is a lot stricter (“family board”) (no cussing) but if you know baseball and your Orioles, they’ll put up with a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-you-started-success-vs-failure/186227/42 "2003-08-23T21:18:10Z")
Good to hear, **if6was9**. Best to keep a clean nose and a patient set of fingers. ---
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-you-started-success-vs-failure/186227/43 "2003-08-23T23:28:02Z")
All my threads experience a quick and painless death. I simply lack the ability to come up with a creative thought. Ah, well, I guess it is what it is! Damn, **Zeldar** , just noticed your sign-on date and post count - you and I are chatterboxes, and you’re winning by a nose. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-you-started-success-vs-failure/186227/44 "2003-08-23T23:39:36Z")
Well, **Blonde** , I just find things to post about, I guess. Usually I don’t put a whole lot of thought into them so they come pretty fast. I’d guess that 1 out of 5 is a serious post and the rest are mostly nonsense things. But I’m not really racing or anything like that. Just having some fun. One way to catch up is to get into a sort of running dialog with several other people. It can’t be me, obviously, or I’d stay ahead. Just get somebody else to have a conversation with on some subject. Better yet, several somebodies. ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-you-started-success-vs-failure/186227/45 "2003-08-24T00:05:29Z")
I guess I’m right behind both of ya chatterboxes! 🙂 I’m more of a blowhard tho! ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-you-started-success-vs-failure/186227/46 "2003-08-24T03:44:08Z")
I thought [this pirate thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=200257) would have about 20 or so posts and then fade away. But, we have some very creative people that were just waiting for an outlet. Now it’s a month old and 10 pages. Hoodathunk? ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-you-started-success-vs-failure/186227/47 "2003-08-24T03:58:18Z")
I started a thread on Sept 10, 2001 that seemed pretty irrelevant to everybody on the following day. It never got any replies. ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-you-started-success-vs-failure/186227/48 "2003-08-24T05:35:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by if6was9 \* > \*\*I haven’t been here long enough to be on anyone’s radar. (I hope! 🙂 ) \*\* There have been plenty of posters that have gotten on the radar screen and shot down with far less posts than you have. * * * I have only started a couple mildly successful threads. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-you-started-success-vs-failure/186227/49 "2003-08-24T05:59:12Z")
Most of my threads have 3-20 replies. My most successful thread was [Odd Places to Find A Penis](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=142425&highlight=places+find+penis) ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-you-started-success-vs-failure/186227/50 "2003-08-24T06:19:35Z")
Well, I’ve had it both ways…that sounds dirty, let me rephrase it. I’ve had a few threads that received replies in the low single-digits. Or no replies at all. On the other hand, on a lark, I posted [“What weapon should I use to hunt a Tyranosaur?”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=135451)…and got 109 replied, 2433 views, and was featured in threadspotting. Printed out, it’s sixty pages long. Not counting links. I didn’t say I wasn’t _grateful_, but I was sure as hell surprised. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-you-started-success-vs-failure/186227/51 "2003-08-24T11:10:09Z")
Apparently the arts and sciences behind good thread construction and titling have been on quite a few minds at times. There was/is [Mention the threads you were going to start but rejected](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=204024) which explored some of the thought that has gone into some of them. I found it rewarding that one of the threads I mentioned there that had had virtually no response (max of 3) has suddenly come back to life and is getting good play. This very thread remained in a coma until just yesterday. Mood is a big part of it, I suspect. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-you-started-success-vs-failure/186227.md?page=2)