Other than on-going game threads or discussions, what were the longest and shortest threads you ever started?
Discounting monthly baseball discussion threads and a current Mornington crescent thread I inadvertantly started, my longest (and most viewed) thread was a call-out of Catsix in The Pit. 373 posts, 12, 676 views. My shortest was a question on menopause that garnered zero responses and only 80 views in 6 years.
What are your longest and shortest?
Dunno about shortest, but my longest-runnibng one was definately Not Coming To A Theater Near You. Ironically, it took so long for someone to r eply at first that I thought it would drop out of sight unaswered.
My longest is Obvious things about a creative work you notice after the millionth time. Started in July of 2009, it made Threadspotting and is now up to 777 posts.
I’ve started many a post that died with 0 replies.
Except for a longer game thread my longest has been
This thread is just about this thread with 290 Replies and 4,112 Views.
To date, I have started 16 threads with 0 replies.
Let’s play a role-playing game, 1331 posts. And we only were just getting started.
Instead of “Said” had 557 posts, 6487 views and showed how creative Dopers can be.
My post with the most views is from Great Debates: Harriet Miers? which had 11, 828 views but only 476 posts.
I’ve had a lot of zero responses thread 
but the one with the least views was in IMHO When Do You Think The War Will End? It’s from 2003 and only had 33 views when I did the search. I’m a bit surprised that no one participated in that one. Other more esoteric topics are less surprising.
My longest game thread was The celebrity alphabetical initials game. We covered the entire A.A. to Z.Z. of celebrity initials with 734 posts.
I’ve had several with 0 replies.
My longest was the infamous “Will a plane on a treadmill take off?” Nine pages and 422 replies.
In my 11 years here, I have had 121 OPs that didn’t get a single resonse. Of those, 23 were in GQ:confused:
The one with the fewest views was a question asking for a movie id, which I have asked numerous times over the years on various websites, and so far have drawn a blank.
Longest: Unethical drug dealers are killing Amy Winehouse! (63 replies, 3350 views)
Shortest: Elevated petroleum tanks (0 replies, 240 views–a real shame, because I still think that’s a funny story)
I’m surprised, but I haven’t started any threads that have gotten 0 replies.
My stats say I only started 50 threads since I joined in July of 2005, with the first one in June of 2006, but I know I started threads before then. I also noticed that quite a few threads I’ve posted in a number of years ago are also gone. (??) I remember the board having some database issues a number of years ago, and recall some discussions about data loss, so perhaps none of our current stats are correct.
I received only 1 reply in this thread, but that was from the moderator admonishing me not to post in Japanese, who then closed the thread.
Threads I start that have the highest views and posts tend to be political in GD and the Pit, with my longest thread having 309 posts, and my second longest thread, with 247 posts having the highest number of views with 7,970.
According to the current stats, I’ve started 19 Great Debate threads, 12 Mundane and Pointless threads, 7 Pit threads, 6 Humble Opinion threads, 5 Cafe Society threads, and 1 General Questions thread.
A lot of my threads have zero replies. Recently I posted a link about a robot that shoots pool. Way cool! But apparently only to me.
The longest was probably one of the monthly Whatcha Readin threads
My Couch to 5K thread got 463 responses.
I was surprised to find that I only have a couple of zero-response threads, including one I started in 2003 to inform the SDMB that the Whatsit family was pulling up stakes and moving from Seattle to Ohio, which was met with resounding crickets.
In the short 8 months I’ve been on here my longest was a seemingly innocuous thread about sweet tea which went for 188 posts.
I started one about police deputization that got 0 responses.
My 0 reply thread with the fewest views was an observation of sequential programs on an Electronic Program Guide. The longest was a thread looking for the answer to a riddle which reached 443 replies and nearly 47,000 views before being locked.
Sad: I didn’t start a thread that had more than 100 responses until earlier this year, after over 11 years on the SDMB.
Sadder: In the first 10 years of posting I only had three threads that had over 50 responses.
Saddest: The thread that finally reached the 100 mark was about Carl “HORSE PORN” Paladino.
Some interesting things I learned from looking at threads I started: I only had three threads out of 73 OPs that had no responses. (Unfortunately for me two were recent requests for help on learning Catalan and finding RibbonX macros, and I still haven’t found resources for either.) But more interesting was this innocuous thread from September 2000. That last respondent and I would meet up four years later and get married.
My record from another board is one I’m rather proud of: 1,649 responses…in under 24 hours!
From my 10,000th post retrospective:
Gone into the depths of time but back in the earlier days for the vBB board, I posted a GQ asking about glass as a liquid and citing a column Cecil had done. That one got plenty of attention and love, culminating in a post by Cecil and eventually a mention on the SD site not to ask about glass as a liquid in GQ.
No idea about my shortest thread but I’m sure I have plenty of one-post wonders out there.
Late Edit to the Above: My longest still existing thread was Somali Pirates Seize US Crew – Is it on? with 376 replies.
Longest by far was Sarah Turns Opaque, with 527 responses and 27,308 views. The next closest had about 5,000 views and it drops off rapidly after that. Lots of zero response threads.