Your most successful thread

[johnnie]

We have all posted threads that goes down faster than a bottle of scotch in the Oval office, but once in a while we start a thread that takes off.
Do you remember your most successful thread and what it was about?
And for the newer people here, yeah...we all had threads that bombed so don't get frustrated.

Mine was the one about a student who was allergic to just about everything and the school was asked to keep their school allergy free for this one student. It went well beyond 200 posts.
What was yours?

[tsakshaug]

1. I think I once had

a thread with 7 replies.
Today one went down with zero.

[shraby]

2. I started the Plame threads

that went to (I think) 7 continued threads.

[trotsky]

3. I started one asking about astrology.

I think it got almost 200 replies.

[Left Is Write]

4. I don't really know. I haven't had that many.

My favorite one that did pretty well was the "What's your earliest political memory" thread.

[RagingInMiami]

5. My longest thread was when I said

"name something about me that bothers the fuck out of you." I had over 300 replies.

[sniffa]

6. the potty mouth thread

[Bouncy Ball]

7. I think it was just last night

I had a thread in here about wanting to cage fight any of the weenie guys on DU and I don't remember how many responses it got...over 100?

Then there is a thread in GD about an email I got from a (now former) friend in which she recommends nuking Iraq. Last I looked, that was at around 232 responses.

I do have a lot drop, though. I don't worry about it, they weren't meant to be.

And I try to respond to threads that I see that are "orphans" just sitting there, dropping with 0 responses. Makes me sad.

[Worst Username Ever]

38. oops never mind

[Reverend_Smitty]

8. Either a thread about...

how you became a Democrat/Progressive/liberal or a thread about what kind of booze are you drinking tonight. Both were pretty popular, not sure what that says about DU but whatever...

[sundog]

9. goes down faster than bottle of scotch at the oval office - lol

My horrible shoes thread - it lasted a few days

[murielm99]

10. A thread called "Orson Scott Card is a vicious homophobe."

eom

[LibDemAlways]

11. A thread asking people to

name their favorite flavor of ice cream for a class homework assignment my daughter brought home. She had to poll twenty people and I knew she'd get at least that many responses. I think she got more than 50 before the thread died.

It's continually frustrating, of course, to start a thread that you think is genuinely important and watch it rapidly disappear.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

12. Posts with an Outrageous Subject.

Waaa. No advanced search.

[MissMillie]

13. I can think of 2 that turned "blazing"

One was about my mother's breast cancer diagnosis

The other was the one I posted about the whacked out woman who verbally abused me and spit on my car at the grocery store on Good Friday.

[SarahB]

14. Probably a GD one surprisingly.

This one:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2565036

My one in the lounge today has gotten a lot of replies, but I didn't really contribute much to it, nor was it so much an original thought. I had another lounge post about a year and a half ago concerning that a lot of DU seemed "not kid-friendly" that got a lot of replies, but I've since grown to realize not everyone has to like kids (and that it's no skin off my nose).

[MrScorpio]

15. Probably the "I am the Face of DU" thread I once started

followed by, "I hate Republicans"

That one got the fucktards up in a stir for sure

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

16. I had one with over 500 posts in GD regarding defining rape

At the time several men had problems understanding exactly when NO meant NO and when NO meant rape...so I proposed a hypothetical question...if a woman says yes to vaginal sex, but no to anal sex and a man penetrates her anally without her permission, is it rape?

It was one of the biggest flame fests of its day even though the answer certainly seemed obvious to me ;-)

[Renew Deal]

22. Hey, she asked for it.

Oh shit :evilgrin:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

23. LOL

jackass

[Rainbowreflect]

17. My most successful thread was never meant to be a big deal.

I just commented about feeling like a socialist at heart when I saw how the uber rich lived when so many in our country have so little. Not only did it get more replies than any other thread I started on DU in was picked up by the freepers & use to point out how I was a pinko commie. I was sooooo proud!

[Taxloss]

18. When I posted about how Bush was affecting my family.

That got about 20-30 replies.

But mostly I just like to read other people's threads.

[elperromagico]

19. The last I checked, the Son of the *~*Stream of Consciousness*~*

thread had something like 560 replies. Its father managed a few hundred.

[AmandaRuth]

20. most of my threads drop like a rock

like 95%. I consider one of my threads a success if I get any reply at all.

[Renew Deal]

21. The one where I got a copy of Dean's misleading NH ad.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=49199

I got rid of the pictures.

[crispini]

24. I believe the one I posted about

Rep. Pete Sessions streaking as a college boy got quite a few replies. (Damn! no archive search. Now is really not the time for this thread, heh.)

And, of course, about once a week I get the chance to start the Olbermann Estrogen Brigeade nightly blog thread. We average 2-300 replies of wit, wisdom, and discourse about ties, but I can't really take credit for those since they'd exist whether or not I was there. However, it is quite gratifying to see a thread with your username on it go streaking along merrily. (No reference to the first story intended, heh. :P )

It's so much easier to get responses in the state forums, although it's not as fast moving. Perhaps that's why?

[youngred]

25. I have, I am told, the longest thread in the history of DU

but I post a serious essay and it sinks like a rock

[fishwax]

26. You define success merely by quantity of responses?

what about the quality of thought in those responses :shrug: ;)

[johnnie]

28. Well of course I don't

I think most people post a thread hoping for at least one response. I just used the word "success" because chances are, no matter what word I used someone here would find some way to question the use of the word I used.

[fishwax]

30. You're right ... I was just being silly

and trying to pad your response count :D

[Longgrain]

27. I've had a couple that made it over twohundred...

Most notally that "whats your first name" thing that won't seem to die...

[LDS Jock]

29. about 200 posts.. on a copycat thread

called "I'm Mormon, ask me anything!" It just kept going. It was fun for the most part though.

[hollywood926]

31. My "who is your favorite lesbian" poll did quite well. n/t

[Cadence]

32. LOL. I like the bottle of scotch analogy. That makes

me feel better about all of them that have bombed.

I had a thread about why people are single that got up over 200. I had another Seinfeld thread that got that high as well.

[RevolutionaryActs]

33. I really don't know... maybe it was my "Favorite Monty Python Member" poll

:shrug:

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

34. The 2005 New Years Day "Post a Pic of You" thread.. MONSTER!

It hit about 500. And, as a bonus, we were able to talk smack about dial-up users about 200 into it. Memories...

[fleabert]

35. a three word thread.

I don't remember how many posts there were before it died, but it went on for several days on the first page of the lounge. It really got my post count up in the beginning when I was too chicken to post anywhere but the Lounge.

the thread made some pretty good prose, IMO, which was my intention.

[Dookus]

36. "Fuck the Amish"

that one took off.

[fujiyama]

37. I had maybe two or three "popular" threads

One could likely be seen as flamebait - it was soon after I joined. It was a thread about greens vs dems.

Another, I still think was a great thread (one of the few good ones I've started), about anti-intellectualism in American society. I remember that one getting a lot of replies.

[Worst Username Ever]

39. "worst movie ever" thread.

One of my few 100+ responses threads.

[Catchawave]

40. An LBN article about Gonzales.....

...of course it helps to post a "hot" topic, but that one was my first little "flamey icon" thread, not sure how much over 30 it went.

I find a thread sucessful if it earns the (View All). That makes me all jiggy.

My proudest DU accomplishment is earning my 1000+ without having ya'll "ask me anything"

:smoke:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

41. It was before the election

I posted about Texas Democrats...

I was too new to know it was a Napalm post. I learned my lesson very quickly on that one. x(

edit: It was in GD or GD politics. I don't recall which.

[ok_cpu]

42. I had one get like two replies..... once

:(


Otherwise, I'm the Leon of thread assasination.