# What thread title would be most likely to make you read it? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 26, 2006, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-thread-title-would-be-most-likely-to-make-you-read-it/354280 "2006-04-26T12:48:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-thread-title-would-be-most-likely-to-make-you-read-it/354280/21 "2006-04-27T06:02:04Z")
> [@friendlessboob](#): > > What topic would you be least likely to post to? Me and Mom Finally Redeemed Our 2 For 1 Coupon At Kreepy Karl’s Butt Plugorium And House of Toe Suckery - TMI Dude, I’d click on that in one half red hot second. ---
**Author:** ![friendlessboob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@friendlessboob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friendlessboob)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-thread-title-would-be-most-likely-to-make-you-read-it/354280/22 "2006-04-27T06:16:52Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > Dude, I’d click on that in one half red hot second. hahaha but, what if the OP was by your sister? (I think i just creeped myself out) “Dude, I’d \ in one half red hot second” is how I will be letting people know that I have no desire/intention for the “that” to have \ done to it, ever, from now on, please let me know if that is OK “Dude, I’d drink that urine sample in one half red hot second” “Dude, I’d get that vague, inaccurate tech spec approved in one half red hot second” (sorry, just have a lot of rage) “Dude, I’d let friendlessboob have access to a computer in one half red hot second” ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-thread-title-would-be-most-likely-to-make-you-read-it/354280/23 "2006-04-27T06:52:39Z")
> [@friendlessboob](#): > > hahaha > > but, what if the OP was by your sister? (I think i just creeped myself out) If it were by my sister, I’d be positively beside myself. In a happy way. “Sis!! I just knew you were into ass-twaddlery and toe-suckery! You filthy whore!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-thread-title-would-be-most-likely-to-make-you-read-it/354280/24 "2006-04-27T07:23:31Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > What title would you almost certainly ignore? Interpreting “you” generically rather than personally, the words _gay_, _pornography_, _lesbian_, _Fuck you {insert specific Doper or specific company here}_ and any combination thereof always do well. > [@](#): > > What topic would you be least likely to post to? Anything having to do with sports in general, TV shows I don’t watch or usually cooking. > [@](#): > > What percentage of threads do you find the titles interesting enough to at least do a mouse-over to see what’s behind the title? Roughly, a third or so. > [@](#): > > What are the odds that this thread will get more than three replies? This being about the 23rd, I’d say “bettah then av’ridge”. [/QUOTE] > [@](#): > > Have you read this far? No. I’m waiting for the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-thread-title-would-be-most-likely-to-make-you-read-it/354280/25 "2006-04-27T23:51:07Z")
**Maybe not respond with a post, but for sure at least see what’s going on.** That’s easy: something posted by **Lawoot** called I’m getting married! 😃 Next choices would be posts about Mike Keneally, Frank Zappa, King Crimson, Calvin and Hobbes, Oxford history, or the Bucksnort Saloon. \*\*What title would you almost certainly ignore? \*\*anything about gaming, comic books, American Idol (or any reality show), NASCAR, or religious witnessing. \*\*What topic would you be least likely to post to? \*\* Of the threads that made it past the prior filters, I’m least likely to post to threads in which I have nothing intelligent to add. But sometimes that doesn’t stop me. :rolleyes: What percentage of threads do you find the titles interesting enough to at least do a mouse-over to see what’s behind the title? 15% What are the odds that this thread will get more than three replies? 100% Have you read this far? no ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2006, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-thread-title-would-be-most-likely-to-make-you-read-it/354280/26 "2006-04-28T00:19:30Z")
**Maybe not respond with a post, but for sure at least see what’s going on.** Something with a favourite band/style of music, maybe a movie I want to see, anything that says “cute animals within” or “cute babies within”, “Keanu Reeves frolicking with Knives”, certain posters I always click on or at least hover over to see what’s going down (including but definitely not limited to: **Inigo** , **Quicksilver** , **Anaamika** , **Telperien** , **KCSuze** , \*\*The Weird One \*\* - and if I notice **Cervaise** has posted, I _have_ to at least peek at what’s going on), if my name is in the title, and almost every Pit thread, though those I rarely respond to. The heat, in the kitchen? I can’t take it, so I stay out. I’m all flowers and MPSIMS. **What title would you almost certainly ignore?** Anything I’m not interested in: Star Trek… uh. I think that’s it. 😛 **What topic would you be least likely to post to?** Most of the time, Pit threads. 99.9% of the time I have nothing useful to contribute that hasn’t already been said, or I’m not riled/excited enough about something to bother. Sometimes I stick my head in and make some inane comment or another, but it’s probably because I’m feeling particularly chatty. Also, Star Trek threads, because I have no interest. **What percentage of threads do you find the titles interesting enough to at least do a mouse-over to see what’s behind the title?** Ugh. Probably 75% of them. I read quickly, though, glance over something, move along, get bored, do some housework, go out for a walk, come back, glance some more, absorb most stuff by osmosis, run some errands… then the husband comes home and hears all kinds of weird stories. **Have you read this far?** I have _now_. ---
**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:** [April 28, 2006, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-thread-title-would-be-most-likely-to-make-you-read-it/354280/27 "2006-04-28T02:07:13Z")
**I’m thinking of getting _this_ pierced (way TMI)(pictures)** ---
**Author:** ![friendlessboob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@friendlessboob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friendlessboob)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2006, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-thread-title-would-be-most-likely-to-make-you-read-it/354280/28 "2006-04-28T03:32:47Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > **I’m thinking of getting _this_ pierced (way TMI)(pictures)** that was pretty funny… for a moderator, no offense 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2006, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-thread-title-would-be-most-likely-to-make-you-read-it/354280/29 "2006-04-28T03:45:08Z")
> [@friendlessboob](#): > > that was pretty funny… for a moderator, no offense 🙂 The pitiable thing is, mods _have_ to read all the threads. And look at the linked pictures. ---
**Author:** ![Auntbeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Auntbeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Auntbeast)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2006, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-thread-title-would-be-most-likely-to-make-you-read-it/354280/30 "2006-04-28T14:27:27Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > The pitiable thing is, mods _have_ to read all the threads. And look at the linked pictures. I want that job! I’m a knowledge hound, I’ll read darn near everything. When I first came to Mecca (SDMB) I mostly read the General Questions. Now I’m firmly perusing the MPSIMS and IMHO, I venture into the pit on occasion, just because I’m not afraid of a good fight, and even the pit threads can be enlightening. Cafe Society, eh, not so much. I adore SurrenderDorothy, I can’t believe she’s a kid, and kudo’s to you for knowing your limitations. Just for you sweetie, 29 pages of baby pics, from sonogram to present. There may or may not be a kitty pic included: [Baby pics](http://www.chicksrock.net/kate/index.htm) What doesn’t interest me? The whole red state/blue state crap. I’m sick of it. Most poker threads, even though I am a poker dealer, I hear enough bad beat stories at work. What does get me? Etiquette, family disfunction, geeky science stuff, child rearing and virtually every “Ask the” thread. Good questions get me every time. Any thread that highlights the skills of the dopers “what’s your profession” I am astounded and the depth and breadth of knowledge contained by a bunch of folks who call themselves dopers. The thread that epitomized the SDMB for me was someone asking about sign language. Within 7 hours, an instructer, a deaf person, a spouse to a deaf person all these folks and more responded so quickly and so informatively with real honest to god info, it was stunning really. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2006, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-thread-title-would-be-most-likely-to-make-you-read-it/354280/31 "2006-04-30T03:30:54Z")
> [@Auntbeast](#): > > I want that job! > \ I’ve heard rumours that the way to become a Moderator is to ask. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2006, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-thread-title-would-be-most-likely-to-make-you-read-it/354280/32 "2006-04-30T03:37:02Z")
**What title would you almost certainly ignore?** Anything political, heard it, read it or have seen it all, and neither side gives an inch. Not to mention WAY too much hatefulness. **What topic would you be least likely to post to?** See above **What percentage of threads do you find the titles interesting enough to at least do a mouse-over to see what’s behind the title?** Hmmmm. I’d say about 10%, to perhaps 25% on a good day. \*\* What are the odds that this thread will get more than three replies?\*\* Very good, as it’s above that now 😃 **Have you read this far?** Yup. You didn’t ask this but ones I will almost certainly read, and likely respond to, are ones which deal with human interest, the human condition, pets, girl stuff (decorating, dating, stuff like that). ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2006, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-thread-title-would-be-most-likely-to-make-you-read-it/354280/33 "2006-04-30T05:30:44Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > “Sis!! I just knew you were into ass-twaddlery and toe-suckery! You filthy whore!” 😃 I just threw up in my mouth a little bit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-thread-title-would-be-most-likely-to-make-you-read-it/354280.md?page=1)