# Why isn't The Straight Dope very popular? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 1, 2020, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-the-straight-dope-very-popular/850837 "2020-04-01T21:28:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 134
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-the-straight-dope-very-popular/850837/134 "2020-04-08T05:29:34Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > Only the mods could tell us for sure, but I could count the ones I’ve seen on one hand. So potential that these “highly potential” supposedly have is negligible. The vast majority of zombified threads are bumped to make an inane, stupid, or irrelevant comment, or to insult someone who last posted 10 years ago. If a comment is at all relevant, I generally will leave a thread open. I would say maybe one in fifty is bumped by someone who is making a genuine new contribution to a thread. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-the-straight-dope-very-popular/850837)._