By “continuously running” I mean that it has gotten at least one post every month (or six weeks) since its OP. And it’s okay if the thread has been locked if it was “continuous” before that.
Other than brute force examinations, is there any way to calculate that sort of thing?
Another thing: It may not have had a whole slew of replies, either, just enough to keep the thing from becoming a zombiette (nonce word?) or sleeper thread.
On the subject, do you have your own personal rules as to how old a thread must be before you won’t reply to it?
(It might help if you attach a link to your candidate(s)…)
I think it’s going to be hard to beat Stupid Republican Idea of the Day, which has been running continuously and usually on the first page of the Pit since March 2009.
While I haven’t checked, I’d be surprised if this thread hadn’t been bumped at least every six weeks.
There may be older threads that are regularly bumped, but rarely more than annually. There are longer thread series, like Sequential Threads, but those are regularly closed and a new one started.
Thanks, Colibri. Those will be hard to top. I keep bumping one I started a long time back about “SDMB’s Greatest Threads” but it’s too random to make the list, so I won’t even link to it.
Most of the others I can think of where I may have participated, burned out after a few weeks, a month or two max.
There is no evidence it gets bumped regularly. Except in Australia, where it was bumped on VHS. You’re thinking of a similar thread, from about that time, that does get bumped regularly.
E-Sabbath’s Great Ongoing Guitar Thread has been going since January 2010 and is up to something like 85 pages. I suspect I account for waaaaayyyy too many of those posts. Sorry!
Seems like every year lately, someone posts a Third Of June thread, but somehow it hasn’t caught on to be an on-going thread. Instead, someone just starts a new short-lived one each year. Too bad.
Whatever happened to that ‘If the Hobbit was Written by Somone Else’ thread. I remember it going on and on and on way back in the early days. Did it peter off or is it still active from time to time?
In the early days of the board the software wasn’t kind to very long threads. If they ran for more than a few pages, they would be closed.
The May 5th thread survived without being closed because it didn’t have that many replies, and it was bumped only annually. Longer threads of that vintage would have been closed more than a decade ago.
