# Your longest and shortest threads **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 14, 2010, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-longest-and-shortest-threads/557129 "2010-10-14T14:26:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-longest-and-shortest-threads/557129/21 "2010-10-14T21:00:16Z")
Longest was my game thread where we voted for [the most influential person in history](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=559639), 708 replies, 14,400 views. My list of 0-reply threads follows: [Question(s) regarding college athletes and sports agency.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=577555) [Help me find a thread, please](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=522449) (Thanks! :mad: ) 😛 [“The Greatest Game Ever Played”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=497395) [Author/film/etc. slogans…](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=157813) [The SDMB Baby Picture Thread!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=117384) ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-longest-and-shortest-threads/557129/22 "2010-10-14T21:12:06Z")
I had a game type thread\* before the Games forum go for about nine septillion replies. I’ve also had several get actually less than zero. For the most part, I used to really get stoked when a thread went past the point where it had to show (1,2,3… last page). Now, I’m just happy if it gets replied to before the arguments start. \*Guess the Next Poster ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-longest-and-shortest-threads/557129/23 "2010-10-14T22:23:52Z")
My longest (not counting the four mafia games I hosted on this board) was [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=518865) about gay marriage, which is kind of ironic since I never actually went back to read it after the first post. The point in the OP had been made in the middle of another gay marriage thread, but someone in that thread (I think it was Starving Artist) refused to allow it to be discussed until he had restitution! for some grievance from someone earlier in the thread. I thought it was interesting, so I started the new thread. As for shortest…there’s a lot of embarrassing or stupid ones that died after 2 or 3 posts. I wish [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=525134) about books versus other written forms of storytelling had gone on longer, because it seemed interesting to me but no-one really cared apparently. Also [this one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=535622) about collectathon platformer video games (I still haven’t found a good one). ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-longest-and-shortest-threads/557129/24 "2010-10-14T22:37:10Z")
Is there an easy way to look up threads you’ve started (as opposed to just posted in)? Anyway, at a total of 11 pages, the “Questions you’ve secretly always wanted to ask the other sex” [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=532890) is my clear winner. I’m actually kinda proud of that puppy. ---
**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 14, 2010, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-longest-and-shortest-threads/557129/25 "2010-10-14T22:49:21Z")
Click on your name. When the profile page comes up, click “Show all statistics.” ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-longest-and-shortest-threads/557129/26 "2010-10-14T23:29:39Z")
Go to advanced search: Find all posts started by; sort by number of posts (descending, then rerun the search by ascending); “any date” and newer. My longest: [A game thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=324750) that got 2014 posts and 10,691 views. (Five of my top seven are game threads.) Highest by number of views was – shazam!, whoda thunk? – [the Spring 2010 DWTS thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=554243), with 30,889. Shortest: Looks like I’ve got at least 50 that got zero responses. (Hard to be sure – I’ve got a lot of mod posts that have no responses that shouldn’t be counted – they’re spam moves, etc., and were not meant to be responded to – so I was counting by hand.) ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-longest-and-shortest-threads/557129/27 "2010-10-15T00:48:05Z")
[Search of my threads.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/search.php?searchid=5796999) 432 started #1: 3379 replies #2: 473 #3: 373 75 went to at least one post on second page. 10 had zero. 80 had 5 or less How long do search IDs last? Can anyone else here see it? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-longest-and-shortest-threads/557129/28 "2010-10-15T03:01:46Z")
Longest: ‘The ‘Put it Back on the Menu, Dammit’ thread’, 181 replies, 6455 views. Shortest (well, actually there were a few about the same number of views): ‘March Mudness’, 0 replies, 50 views. Nowhere near a record in either direction, I reckon. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-longest-and-shortest-threads/557129/29 "2010-10-15T03:09:01Z")
My first ever post on the board was [An explanation of high frequency trading](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=555190)- a post that got 0 replies. The longest thread that’s been started by me is [OkCupid: A Journey](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=558684). ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-longest-and-shortest-threads/557129/30 "2010-10-15T04:08:55Z")
Several with 0, one current one that so far has 327 posts and about 6500 views. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-longest-and-shortest-threads/557129.md?page=1)