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Have they fallen (below) the 100 post mark? Mine have 99% of the time. This one will too, as will the one I will make in an hour.

Mine are either too specific or tl;drs...

Most of mine have to. I just enjoy them as long as people post. It not the quantity, it's the quality.

I tend to avoid starting threads, because I'm thoroughly convinced they will be flops, but my "religion thread" and the "silverware stealing" thread were both pretty successful, back in the day of 2005-2006.

It not the quantity, it's the quality.

The hell it's not.

i've only ever started one thread

"why do so many people on NS hate religion?"

made quite a sitr, so im happy :)

I don't start any. Becuase my opinions aren't controversial enough, and the few topics where I think I know enough to put together a suitably informed argument rather than an ad-hoc reckon (political philosophy, some random early modern history topics, and stuff on transgender rights) probably wouldn't interest enough people for a big thread as they're a bit too heavy. I prefer to make occasional irrelevant sarcastic comments on other peoples threads rather than post something and have my beliefs torn apart by far more intelligent people :)

I have only made a few threads... but they usually go over the 100 mark

Never made a thread, and don't plan to.

Maybe I just have a fear of rejection.

Click Stand;13648561']Never made a thread, and don't plan to.

Maybe I just have a fear of rejection.

Me too. *hides eyes in shame*

every thread I made, except when I started a new paradise beach segment, have been flops. :(

I've made threads with my old nation (seriously, if you can't tell who my old nation was, you're either new or an idiot) but either they weren't very controversial or were somewhat bloggish.

9 out of my 11 have been flops.

Actually, I'd say only about 60% of my threads have been flops...

Then what would you consider a success?

Have they fallen (below) the 100 post mark? Mine have 99% of the time. This one will too, as will the one I will make in an hour.

3/5, i would say, is a safe bet. Depends on how much i humiliate myself in the process.

I've made threads with my old nation (seriously, if you can't tell who my old nation was, you're either new or an idiot) but either they weren't very controversial or were somewhat bloggish.
Hey, I know you! :p

9/11 have been flops.


:)

It's kind of random. I think a lot depends on time of posting, title, etc.

I have found that all of my "best" threads, if quantity is the judging factor, were fairly stupid. The longest was the NSG Awards Thread (the Nishgies) which was much like the Grammys in number and meaninglessness of awards. Another was titled "Which state could go?," and was about, literally, which of the fifty states the U.S. could afford to lose.

There have been good short threads, though. The one about what a neoconservative is never went over the 100 post mark, but I got at least two posts that (gasp!) intelligently answered my question.

7 of 46 of mine had 100+ replies.

However, I don't think <100 is a flop. Less than 3 pages, maybe. 100 posts is about 8 pages - some discussions just aren't going to go 8 pages. That doesn't make them unworthy of discussion, though.

7 of 46 of mine had 100+ replies.

You spam-magnet, you. :p

I batting a hundred, pal. I haven't made a thread since last summer, so I can't say if the curse has been lifted. probably not.

I've created very few threads for someone with my postcount, but most have struggled to make it past one page. I sometimes get lucky and get the odd two-page thread, but that's it. God knows the last time I created a thread, though.

Mine either end up in spam or die after half a dozen posts...

However, in a shameless plug because we are all like minded in here: http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=555378

:)

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I've only made a few threads in general. Most of my threads/posts are in II, and yes most of them are flops. In fact, I made one today that was a major flop and only got three replies.

I dont think ive ever started a thread on NationStates, but it is rare that one i make on any forum makes it past the 100 mark...

Yeah, eventually I just quit making threads. In all fairness, I never made very many.

Search found 100 that I made, out of those about 3/10 had more than a hundred posts, about 1 in 10 had more than 200, I found about 5 with more than 300 posts and 1 with more than 500. I am really sure that the search didn't find every thread I started, and I know that they have gotten a better response as I've gotten a higher post count. My first round of threads did good to get 20 posts.

Mine have fallen short of 100 posts. I don't know why.

I think most of mine have been flops. *goes and counts* 15 out of 100 have broken the 100 post mark. Not too bad I guess (considering that most are void of content).


That said, on the other forum I actually post on with any regularity, my rate is much better. That is probably because I posted a mega controversial thread which did not flame or troll. That was fun.

15 out of 49 of my threads have gone over 100 replies.

yeh, my longest thread (apart from a deliberately provocative, borderline trolling thread) was 10 pages. a quick search shows that all others over 100 posts are ones i didn't actually start but stole the OP. my actual longest thread does not appear in a search cuz the OP was stolen, by Celtlund i believe.most of my other threads barely broke a page in length.

Out of my 11 threads one had over 100 posts but there were two others I don't consider flops.

Most of mine have to. I just enjoy them as long as people post. It not the quantity, it's the quality.

... and with "most of mine" certainly you're referring to the one single thread you made, yes?