OP’s, Of all the threads you’ve started, which is the most popular…and were you surprised? Ashamed for mankind? Embarassed? Proud?
mine was this one about the ipod. I ended up giving a lot of advertising to a product /brand I dislike. So ironic. I was a bit surprised at the turn out.
Mine was this thread, on the very premature birth of my daughter, and her ensuing soap opera. 333 replies and over 13,000 views.
Luckily, it had a very happy ending!
Two words:
Plane. Treadmill.
This one had 154 posts and 2,383 views.
My Please don’t see “Larry the Cable Guy, Health Inspector” thread got 3,199 views.
I have 10 pit thread with over 1,000 views 4 of which are over 2,000 views, and this one will hit 7,000 views any day now (only 146 posts though).
All of this is nothing compared to the posts with 30,000 views, but these are the ones I’m responsible for.
Without a doubt, it was my three Doperball threads.
And before anyone cracks wise, remember – the OP said “Of all the threads you’ve started…”. I didn’t start the one you’re thinking of.
I haven’t started many threads here. The longest one wasthis
one, asking about first encounters with things that are now commonplace. Only two pages but over 2500 views. I wasn’t expecting that.
Greatest number of replies: A round of the movie game, with over 2,000. Not sure I deserve credit for that; we were playing this quite a bit then and I just happened to be the person who started that round.
That’s followed by two exchanges (the '04 Valentines exchange and last year’s T-shirt exchange), then Where did you go to high school? and Brokeback Mountain.
Number of views: Brokeback Mountain, with over 12,000; that movie game thread, with almost 10,000; followed by the provocatively named Boobies! Boobies! Boobies! with almost 6600. (Hmph. You’d think that would have done better. 
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The epic story of removing the fridge from my basement.
Supermarket items you miss: 233 replies, 6,399 views as of this posting.
If I limit a search to the last year, mine would have to be
Put a face on a Doper you’ve never seen with 140 replies.
But if look all the way back to when I joined up, I feel sure it’s
This thread is just about this thread.
This thread seems to have hit a nerve… 122 replies. Not nearly as impressive as some people’s though.
My biggest so far was I’m going to be a girl. (4169 views, 97 posts) I attribute this almost completely to the title.
Second was A thread for pics of Dopers’ Kitties. (1,304 views, 71 posts)
My Henchpersons recruitment thread is still alive and kicking after about 2 weeks, and it actually spawned a “Superhero Recruitment” thread. My only regret is that I didn’t have more time to nurture it last week, as I was planning a business trip on very short notice.
My “Ask the 50s Dad” thread was a lot of fun, too, and that one spawned a couple “child” threads, too (in a manner of speaking).
Sorry I can’t link 'em, but I’m posting from my Blackberry (makes it a pain to do certain things).
Mine was in the pit. It had 5360 views. It was mighty, umm, good of you to ask.
If there was a worldwide Dopefest… is the thread I’m most proud of.
I remember checking it one day and being surprised that it had gone multiple pages. I read through it the other day and was amused to read Batsinma Belfry’s response considering that she changed her username shortly after she posted that reply.
This one, by a very wide margin.
Just on posts/views, my most “popular” thread was this pitting that evolved out of another, equally long and stupid pit thread. About food. 360 posts and over ten thousand views. For a thread about people yelling at each other about food. We’re a bunch of wierdos on this board.
Of course, being a pitting, I figure about half the people reading or posting to that thread were doing so just because they thought the thread (or myself) were totally stupid, so I don’t know if you can call that “popular.” The thread that got the biggest positive response was If clues were WMDs, I’d be Iraq. And by positive response, I don’t just mean that people liked the OP: I actually got a date out of that thread!
Oh and the winner gets to design our new pukey smilie
(no I do not actually posess the power to do this, but I do have the power of suggestion!)
