# What's the longest thread you've ever started? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 29, 2009, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594 "2009-10-29T12:58:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594/1 "2009-10-29T12:58:52Z")
Mine is only 88 replies; in fact, that’s my only thread to ever get a second page. I suck. (On the other hand, 92.6% of my posts have been to existing threads. Guess I’m not much of a conversation starter…) ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594/2 "2009-10-29T13:13:34Z")
The Doperball threads generally attract big numbers, with [Doperball III](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=301324) topping out at 366 replies. FTR, _that other_ thread went to 398 replies, but since I technically didn’t start it, I’m not counting it here. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594/3 "2009-10-29T13:16:00Z")
[Obvious things about a creative work you realize after the millionth time](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=525685) started out so slowly I was sure it was going to die. It later catch fire and made Threadspotting. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594/4 "2009-10-29T13:17:05Z")
27 pages, 1331 replies, and for the most part only half a dozen posters, one of whom was Santo Rugger. It was a RPG thread in The Game Room. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594/5 "2009-10-29T13:26:56Z")
I don’t start many threads – just 31 so far – and my longest one was posted shortly after the Game Room opened: [No Mornington Crescent yet?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=456827) – 194 replies My second longest was posted in The Pit, 5 years ago, and was just the third thread that I started here: [I pit 46.6% of Australian voters](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=280005) – 130 replies ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594/6 "2009-10-29T13:32:50Z")
Got one going right now over in IMHO which looks poised to hit 7 pages. Doubt any of my previous efforts made it that far. Who woulda thunk the key was to get folk to talk about what infuriates them? 🆒 ---
**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:** [October 29, 2009, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594/7 "2009-10-29T14:17:38Z")
Mine usuall die in the low double-digits, but I’ve had three that have topped 300 replies. My [2006 baseball thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=369665) hit 375. Two Pit threads each got 300 or more (one on the Saudis, one on **Catsix** ). ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594/8 "2009-10-29T14:45:33Z")
[Couch to 5K: Anyone with me?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=520380), which is still going, and is currently at 420 posts. Next runner-up was a Pit thread I started to question **Evil Captor** ’s suspension, a few years back, with 378 posts. (I had totally forgotten I started that thread, until I searched just now.) Hardly any of my threads have cracked the 100 barrier, though. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594/9 "2009-10-29T14:58:35Z")
Search keeps losing me, but I once started a “line-at-a-time” limerick thread that went on for about 6 pages. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594/10 "2009-10-29T15:07:31Z")
The still-active [Job-Seekers’ Support Group](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=465572) has over 1,000 posts, unfortunately. I also started a game thread, [Move Game IV](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=324750), that went over 2,000 posts (2,014). ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594/11 "2009-10-29T15:08:17Z")
[Things people do that you just don’t understand](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=490962). Devolved into a “people you judge” and then “what are your pet peeves” rather quickly. 227 posts. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594/12 "2009-10-29T15:20:51Z")
[“Can America trust atheists?”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=364472) got 447 replies - so close to that 10th page, but not quite. I’ve had two other threads get about half that many responses but most of mine were much shorter. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594/13 "2009-10-29T15:21:22Z")
I have several that are of approximately equal lengths: [Over-rated Items from You Regional Cuisine](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=501412)- 230 posts, 6141 views [I Resent it When Strip Clubs Hire Fat-Ass Bouncers](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=474476)- 172 posts, 8488 views [What Was the Loudest FanBoy Howl of Outrage?-](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=334116)154 posts, 6643 views [Just the Punchlines, Please](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=318012)- 234 posts, 2402 views ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594/14 "2009-10-29T15:42:44Z")
Longer than this thread. But not much. ---
**Author:** ![Svejk\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@Svejk\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Svejk_1)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594/15 "2009-10-29T15:46:08Z")
Wouldn’t it be funny if this thread attracts well over a hundred posts? Anyway, I’ve started 2 threads that were about 80 posts long, but nothing amazing. Still, I wouldn’t be surprised if most threads on the dope never made it over 10 posts. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594/16 "2009-10-29T16:09:16Z")
[Plane. Treadmill. 'Nuff said.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=348452) ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594/17 "2009-10-29T16:20:48Z")
[Mythbusters: Hindenburg](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=403517) - only 64 replies, but 3,329 views [Movie Merger Madness](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=267400) - 279 replies and 2,492 views That second thread bears reviving in The Game Room. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594/18 "2009-10-29T16:52:04Z")
Garden Gnomes. 7 pages, 307 posts and 16,904 views. Man I feel so proud 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594/19 "2009-10-29T17:04:38Z")
Wow, I’d forgotten [this one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=269743)…it went to 306 replies. ---
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594/20 "2009-10-29T17:06:31Z")
[Big bugs](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=513367) by a wide margin. If is wasn’t for that thread I would never have known about the horror that is [the giant isopod](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_isopod)… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594.md?page=2)