# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594/21 "2009-10-29T17:19:20Z")
[Give me 3 last names](http://boardstest.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=449976) – 524/4734 ---
**Author:** ![Hawkeyeop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/958977/32.png) [@Hawkeyeop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hawkeyeop)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594/22 "2009-10-29T18:21:43Z")
1,726 23,944 Start a mafia game sometime 🙂 As I’ve only started 3 threads my average is pretty high too. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594/23 "2009-10-29T18:26:09Z")
Short of digging through my entire posting history page-by-page, I’m only going to offer one that I remember going on for a long time (thanks in large part to being featured in Threadspotting): [Funny business](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=189206&highlight=business&page=4), 195 posts. 🆒 ---
**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, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594/24 "2009-10-29T18:33:28Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > Short of digging through my entire posting history page-by-page… You can do a search: find all posts started by … from beginning … sort by number of replies … show as threads. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594/25 "2009-10-29T19:41:09Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > You can do a search: find all posts started by … from beginning … sort by number of replies … show as threads. Well I’ll be damned. :smack: In that case: [2004 SDMB Mock Election by Electoral Vote](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=278342&highlight=heyhomie). I thought about doing it in 2008, but never got around to it. Now that we have the polling option enabled, the results will self-compile when I do it in 2012! ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594/26 "2009-10-29T20:03:10Z")
[Dear Nick & Cynthia (a telephone rant)](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=390238) ended up with 130 posts. Lots of people came in to complain about getting calls for people who no longer had their number, or mail for people no longer at their address. That thread was started in 2006, 11 months after I got my phone number and was angry about still getting calls for Nick and Cynthia. I was actually considering pitting them AGAIN…because now **it has been almost exactly FOUR YEARS since I got my phone number** and, I kid you not, this month I have had to speak with Nick & Cynthia’s church twice about their number and call back two debt collection agencies to tell them Nick & Cynthia definitely do not live here. These people will. not. go. away. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594/27 "2009-10-29T20:07:31Z")
I haven’t checked, but it is likely one of my monthly _Whatcha Reading_ threads. Back when I did a monthly weight loss thread, some of those got pretty long too. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594/28 "2009-10-29T20:12:11Z")
[135 posts](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/search.php?searchid=4720269). The person who presented the riddle eventually did impart the, uh, [“answer”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=53841). ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594/29 "2009-10-29T20:25:42Z")
[A part of American Democracy exported to Iraq!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=298685) I was making a joke about the whole war on poverty, terrorism, drugs naming convention. Someone found some line in the article to debate about, so it went 6 pages. I’m not sure if I even red the last page. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594/30 "2009-10-29T20:32:21Z")
Maybe I’ll try starting a pit thread about some tailgating fat lady who was on her way to get her cats declawed… ---
**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, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594/31 "2009-10-29T20:42:18Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Maybe I’ll try starting a pit thread about some tailgating fat lady who was on her way to get her cats declawed… …when she runs over a Republican who was about to get his son circumsized, but was refused entrance to the clinic because he wouldn’t take his shoes off… ---
**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, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594/32 "2009-10-29T20:47:07Z")
And couldn’t use the bathroom because the toilet paper was hanging the wrong way. ---
**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, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594/33 "2009-10-29T20:57:09Z")
And then everybody ran 5K. ---
**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, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594/34 "2009-10-29T20:58:32Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > [Plane. Treadmill. 'Nuff said.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=348452) Not fair. My [plane-on-a-treadmill thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=361338) only went 150 replies. My [Jon-from-Garfield drinks dog semen](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=352331) thread got 7800 views, though. ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594/35 "2009-10-29T21:06:25Z")
My longest thread on this board was the [Geekiest Joke Ever](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=445418) thread. I know it doesn’t count, but it still amazes me. I started a thread 3 years ago on a Linux board asking how to get [MLB.TV](http://MLB.TV) working in Linux. That thread is still going with 2270 replies. ---
**Author:** ![melodyharmonius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melodyharmonius/32/21310_2.png) [@melodyharmonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melodyharmonius)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594/36 "2009-10-29T21:34:43Z")
i once posted a reply in [one thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=495289) that spawned [The Ron Thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=495672). My bf pointed out the other day that it had received over 48K views. And 521 replies. Scary that one creepy boyfriend of my sister’s could inspire such a following. You all secretly want him, don’t you. You sick bastahds. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594/37 "2009-10-29T21:37:03Z")
[Any chance Colin Powell will endorse Obama?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=473342) - 118 replies [Isaac Hayes Quits South Park](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=362733) - 152 replies ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594/38 "2009-10-29T21:49:57Z")
My longest thread was this one about [male views on relationships](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=289713), but a lot of those posts are mine, so the thread with the most replies from other people is [Who paid for your schooling?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=484538). ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594/39 "2009-10-29T21:57:32Z")
This one on [Harriet Myers in Great Debates](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=337994) got 476 replies and almost 12,000 views. Back when I used to do [MMPs one of them got 461 replies](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=400587) and about 4000 views. I found 19 threads with more than 100 replies. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594/40 "2009-10-29T22:25:57Z")
Ah, one of my Poker threads: [The SDMB World Poker Tour on Pokertropolis…Rude and Grim when you go All-In](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=319088), weighing in at 607 replies and 5887 views. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-thread-youve-ever-started/515594.md?page=3)