# Threadspotting: Your most successful thread **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 13, 2006, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadspotting-your-most-successful-thread/344315 "2006-02-13T19:05:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadspotting-your-most-successful-thread/344315/21 "2006-02-14T15:00:22Z")
I haven’t started many threads, so the pickings for me are pretty slim. But I’ll always have a soft spot for [What’s the seediest hotel you’ve ever stayed in?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=165484), which got some great responses and seemed to be fun for folks. Maybe it should be restarted… ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadspotting-your-most-successful-thread/344315/22 "2006-02-14T16:58:40Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > I get the feeling no one likes me. ☹ I likes ya. Ever since that shower picture, whenever I see your name, I start giggling. 😛 Best picture\* ever\*. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadspotting-your-most-successful-thread/344315/23 "2006-02-14T21:13:03Z")
My old roommate reads SDMB, but refuses to sign on. He wanted me to make a thread about Grampa Simpson, do I did. It took off like a suicide bomber van towards an Israeli cafe. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadspotting-your-most-successful-thread/344315/24 "2006-02-14T21:15:45Z")
My most successful threads are, by far, the Annual Steelers March to the Super Bowl threads, three in all. This year’s thread was clearly the most successful, you will note. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadspotting-your-most-successful-thread/344315/25 "2006-02-14T21:23:12Z")
I think my most successful thread, rather embarrassingly, was an IMHO thread on how long people feel they can wear a pair of jeans between washings. That thing just took off like wildfire, but I think it’s gone now. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadspotting-your-most-successful-thread/344315/26 "2006-02-14T21:40:26Z")
I once vented on a prepubescent private dancer of Caucasian persuasion. I seriously did not foresee the popularity of that post. Something like 8,000 views in a week? Like, 1/100,000,000th of what Dave Chappelle went through after “I’m Rick James, bitch!” None of the money, either. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadspotting-your-most-successful-thread/344315/27 "2006-02-14T21:46:08Z")
Most of my threads die before they get past the 30 reply mark, but the two that did best were [What’s the scariest story you ever read?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=233876) and [Is Blazing Saddles the funniest movie ever made?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=328356) Been Threadspotted once. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadspotting-your-most-successful-thread/344315/28 "2006-02-14T21:49:29Z")
Interesting. A running commentary on England vs Brazil, June 2002. > **[(Spoilers) England vs Brazil](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=121640)** > > Come on England! My nerves are shot and it hasn’t even kicked off. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadspotting-your-most-successful-thread/344315/29 "2006-02-14T22:22:53Z")
I got a thread that was thread-spotted, so that’s pretty sucessful, right? [If you thought \_\_\_\_\_ was a sequel to \_\_\_\_ you’d be in for a movie-viewing shock](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=294643&highlight=sequel) Going by high view counts these two are almost as high as the one above [questions about other countries that you’ve never gotten a straight answer to](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=168030) [The “How Many Would Be Scary?” Game](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=125336) And this one wins for replies [Unprepared Essay Game](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=130993) but these (and “would be scary…”) are close [If one more person says/asks this, I’ll scream (add your own)](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=72121) ["I rather \_\_\_\_ than be \_\_\_\_ " game!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=155185) [Other Historical Events You’d like to see movies about](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=242089) ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadspotting-your-most-successful-thread/344315/30 "2006-02-14T22:22:54Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > I once vented on a prepubescent private dancer of Caucasian persuasion. > > I seriously did not foresee the popularity of that post. Something like 8,000 views in a week? > > Like, 1/100,000,000th of what Dave Chappelle went through after “I’m Rick James, bitch!” > > None of the money, either. I know the thread, but your description of it just sounds so wrong. 😃 Jim ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadspotting-your-most-successful-thread/344315/31 "2006-02-15T02:04:49Z")
Mine was a [Secret Santa bragging thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=228742) from a few years ago. I was surprised the next one was [Draw a pig.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=314516) ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadspotting-your-most-successful-thread/344315/32 "2006-02-15T03:47:37Z")
[My patient’s bizarre penis](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=273825) ---
**Author:** ![wasson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4da419/32.png) [@wasson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wasson)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadspotting-your-most-successful-thread/344315/33 "2006-02-15T03:58:39Z")
[This one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=322926) was my most successful. It went to 3 pages, but nearly 6000 page views, a lot of emails to me supporting me or telling me their own stories they weren’t comfortable posting in public, and a few people even anticipating my big date and asking my relationship status months later (which I never answered since I didn’t see the thread re-pop up). ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadspotting-your-most-successful-thread/344315/34 "2006-02-15T04:20:19Z")
Two of mine were threadspotted. [Insurance for the cataclysmically stupid](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=236970) and [Tales of the Sweaty, Feculent Herd](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=237296). Since the insurance thread got over 7,000 views, I’ll count that one as the most successful. I did do a second _Tales of the Sweaty Feculent Herd_, but it tanked. Such is the way of sequels. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadspotting-your-most-successful-thread/344315/35 "2006-02-17T23:35:41Z")
Today marks my second threadspotted thread - one that I actually mentioned above: [Smurfs keep getting away.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=358060) ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadspotting-your-most-successful-thread/344315/36 "2006-02-18T03:06:09Z")
The most popular one was the tale of my [theiving assistant](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=313669) and the [one about her subsequent firing](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=351668), but the one I’m most proud of is [this rant](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=262640) about the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadspotting-your-most-successful-thread/344315/37 "2006-02-18T18:20:42Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > [Fun and games with Mr Austin Wemba](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=242804)was popular, although looking back, could have been done a lot better. I don’t think so - I remember that one fondly. I suppose [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=149366) is my most successful flame, although I have never made Threadspotting. But my most successful thread, by my standards, is [this one.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=227409) Because, mostly, of the responses I got. Especially the poem. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2006, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadspotting-your-most-successful-thread/344315/38 "2006-02-19T18:05:40Z")
[This one about the Superflu](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=244421) got off to a false start, but then it went off like gangbusters. You never know which threads will be successful or not. [This one, by **Velma**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=177712), was about an unopened cooler in her backyard. Then it grew… ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2006, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadspotting-your-most-successful-thread/344315/39 "2006-02-19T19:04:35Z")
From the first thread linked to in the OP > [@](#): > > My most successful thread based on posts is [Racist Scholarships](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=24811), which is a diatribe I posted nearly five years ago against the abundance of scholarships restricted to minorities. I was 16 at the time and overused punctuation. The conversation quickly flew over my adolescent head. > > A close second is [Ask the Teenager II](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=66824), but it was quickly swarmed by a bunch of other teenagers, so it was more of a group effort than “my” thread. > > My most popular thread based on views is [Mr. Evil Breakfast is served, Pit Style](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=217954). The titular (hee hee) member (hee hee) was later banned (though not as a result of my thread), so I guess I couldn’t have been too off the mark. > > I had three threads with no replies, out of 110 I’ve started. Speaking of, I’ve started 110 threads in the almost-six years I’ve been here. Now I’ve got 123 threads to my credit. My recent thread in Great Debates regarding the Confederate Flag in public schools generated just two fewer posts than the aforementioned “Racist scholarships” thread. Interestingly (or maybe not), over my posting lifetime here, I’ve averaged 16.5 replies per thread started. But I’ve become a better threadstarter, apparently…over the past year I’ve averaged 23.1 replies per thread started, and over the past six months, that number has increased to 33.33. I’ve had just three threads get more than 100 replies, while eight have recieved more than 50 (but less than 100). A dismal 72 threads I’ve started have gotten 10 or fewer replies. [sub]This hijack brought to you by Microsoft Excel[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2006, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadspotting-your-most-successful-thread/344315/40 "2006-02-19T20:08:07Z")
I’ve had a few that I thought could have made it to threadspotting. For instance I started one titled [“American TV came this close, ||, to their first Daddy/Daughter couple”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=335810) Which I figured would make a lot of people go “What the hell!?.” So then they preview it and read “After all these weeks of courting her he ends up leaving her for his sister at the altar. I…” and now think “This can’t be real.” So they open it and find a thread on the latest Harvey Birdman. I was pretty proud of that one even if it only got 14 replies. Over 90 views per post. I wouldn’t send in my own threads for threadspotting but I thought the thread where I wondered if other people use their [imagination](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=332471) for entertainment and one where I was told a [joke](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=321724) in a dream should have made it there. I was kinda sad my thread on [squatting](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=302120) didn’t make it. Actually I’d say I’m part of the problem. I’ve only submitted (racking memory, racking memory) … 2 threads in the 5 years I’ve been here. One made it, one didn’t. And probably the last one was a couple years ago. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadspotting-your-most-successful-thread/344315.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadspotting-your-most-successful-thread/344315.md?page=3)