A comment recently posted brought me to this thought: How many "Epic" or "Big" threads are there on the Front Row Crew Forums? So with this goal in mind, I went through all 2857 threads (just the top index pages) to find out. Many threads never reach higher than 10 posts. Most of the threads hit between 30-70 posts. There are however a few huge threads (not counting the 3 of 4 Stickies).
Surprisingly the over 100 club is far and few between. There have been only 8 (not counting the Stickies which are really their own special group). I expected most of the Flamewar threads to easily have crossed 100. Flamewars did have 1 threads that made it over 100, however that also means that the other 67 Flamewar threads didn't. And on top of that, that one Flamewar was the smallest of the treads to reach the mark. The largest thread beat it out by 5 times. I thought "well surely that's a write-in thread" much like the stickies that are on top. But glancing through it, the thread was filled with actual discussion. On a different note, Politics, Video Games and the Everything Else categories divided up the group at 2 a piece. Leaving Forum Games with the last one. Just some interesting info.
Also of note - of the 4 editable Stickies, all reach over 100. The only exception is a very recent creation - IDShare.
Bare statstics and links to the rest of the threads below.
Bitter Food DivisionsPosts: 103 posts
Category: Flamewars
Started by: hungryjoe
Started on: Aug 10th 2007
Why geeks play WarcraftPosts: 113 posts
Category: Everything Else
Started by: The wired
Started on: Jul 25th 2006
GeekNights 061102 - US Midterm ElectionsPosts: 123 posts
Category: Politics
Started by: Rym
Started on: Nov 2nd 2006
Three Words Game!Posts: 143 posts
Category: Forum Games
Started by: Rooster
Started on: Nov 9th 2006
Gun Control?Posts: 154 posts
Category: Politics
Started by: WaterIsPoison
Started on: Apr 17th 2007
Super Smash Brothers BrawlPosts: 167 posts
Category: Video Games
Started by: Li_Akahi
Started on: Jul 11th 2007
Why people Think Rym & Scott are Gay.Posts: 273 posts
Category: Everything Else
Started by: Thaed
Started on: Jul 28th 2006
and the biggest "Epic" thread:
Pokemon is Going VOIP! -
Posts: 532 posts
Category: Video Games
Started by: HMTKSteve
Started on: Mar 16th 2007
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That and at the moment I'm rather bored at work and played all my flash games to death.
Posts: 214 posts Category: Flamewars Started by: Sail Started on: Jan 8th 2007
My question though was more along the lines of trends. Sorta like Rym's "formula for a 5 on Slashdot" but on normal forums, if large threads tend to drag on where as short threads get more to the point, or even just forum management from a moderator perspective.