What is the one thread where you think your participation was spot on, where you contributed the most/best posting of your life? Perhaps you answered a question that likely saved somebody tens of thousands of dollars, perhaps you were just dead-on accurate with your arguments, leaving the rest of us trailing in your glory.
Me, I like going back and reading Fessie’sThe SDMB Mommies Group (Daddies welcome) every so often. Of all the threads on all the message boards I have ever posted, that one has my favorite writing.
I liked the way my giant vertical ruler thread worked out. Initially I thought the answer would be simple and I would feel stupid for not realizing it. Then, the SDMB was stumped. Then, I got a chance to meet the ruler’s owner who, it turns out, is a very interesting guy. Finally, some very funny posters added mirth. It was a cool thread all around.
One of the most awesome threads I ever participated in was the Korean Grocery Poetry Jam, but soon after it was started it got sent to Guantanamo and hasn’t been seen since.
My recent Ask the Stripper thread went pretty well, and lasted for five pages. I think that’s kinda cool. And only one person insulted me and it did not end in the Pit, well, yet.
I hardly ever start threads, so I don’t have much to choose from. My personal favorite is no longer on the board; it’s the thread wherein I describe, step by step, what LASIK surgery is like from the patient perspective.
But the thread I thought was most fun, and had the most interesting replies (and which I’d really like to start again these many years later, because I bet it’d get some awesome stories), was What’s the seediest hotel you’ve ever stayed in?. I won’t link to the original, because it’s way too old.
Define “best”? Is is merely the longest? Most notable in SDMB history? (those two would be one in the same, actually.) If that’s the case, then my sigh plane on a treadmill thread wins.
However, I assume you mean best in a “I look back on that thread favorably” kind of way, in which case I’ll have to say my video game phrase thread.
The most gratifying response I ever had was to my desperate call to the Teeming Millions about where to get business clothes for my petite-size daughter.
As for threads I didn’t start, I’ve killed so many that all I can figure is that once I posted, my wit and brilliance were so dazzling that other Dopers just gave up.