Have you ever started a legacy thread?

[DM-Rocco]

Have you ever started a legacy thread?

I define that as a thread with at least 10 pages (40 posts per page) and at least 10,000 views.

I recently had my first such post here: Is D&D getting too soft? and now that it has pettered out I feel good that I started a discussion that so many people wanted to engage in, for good or for ill.

What are your thoughts and experiences on such posts? Did you change anyones mind on how they feel on the topic? I don't think mine did.

Feel free to share.

 

[DM-Rocco]

I don't think my post changed anyones mind. In fact, I think it just strengthed poeples position one way or the other. I think it was informative to see other peoples view on the topic and how they handle it and it is always interesting to see how people view the same problem with different ideas and answers.

Personally I thought I would get about 60 replies and that would be it. I was truely amazed that it got as many as it did.

 

[TerraDave]

One:

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=124666

The thread that announced the coming of Iron Heroes...when it was still called Iron Lore!

I do think it is a pretty good thread. And of course, if you really want you can divine some of the trends and interests that would feed into 4thed.

It also got on the front page for the first time. But as "Terrafave". I guess you can't have everything.

 

[Ry]

E6's six incarnations definitely meet the legacy criteria.

There's one technique that I would recommend to anyone involved in such a long discussion:

If there's more to discuss, and you've hit 250+ posts but you're retreading old ground, restart the thread.

1) Start a new thread with the same topic
2) edit the original post to include "EDIT: See (link)here(/link) where the discussion continues"
3) add one more post at the end of the discussion with the same text
4) ask the mods to close the old thread (apologies to mods that I keep bothering)

That gives you some nice bookends on the discussion and in the new thread on the same topic include stuff on how your opinions changed or what comments and positions have been refined over the course of the conversation. For E6 this meant there was a FAQ.

The other thing is that it lets people jump in on the ground floor of the discussion, which helps because people don't feel like they have to invest 30 hours before they can make an intelligent comment.

So in several ways, restarting the thread helps the idea evolve.

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

Best I ever managed was my Story Hour, 273 responses and just over 7,000 views.

 

[Piratecat]

Technically this is a Meta thread, but I'll pop it into Off Topic which has more folks checking it.

 

[megamania]

One of my storyhours has. Been involved in many however.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

Nope. The closest I have gotten is an 9 page thread where I simply asked if Complete Mage was out yet. Not exactly a deep and meaningful post!

I think it actually turned into a discussion on the Complete Mage book itself, which is why the thread is so long.

Olaf the Stout

 

[BlueBlackRed]

I had one that was heading that direction, but it was lost in the great crash before it could get locked or hit the marks required above.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Longest (public) thread I've ever created was the one announcing that I disbanded the Unwilling Pirate Brigade over on WoW's Hyjal forums (about 2 years ago). I'm not sure how many posts and views it obtained since I loft interest in the stroke/flame war it produced after several days.

I created another one elsewhere but that was mostly my posting a story with about 4 other contributing (which lasted about 100 - 300 posts and had about 1000 - 2000 views)

Over here, the longest thread I've created was one OoTS thread which had about 4 pages before people lost interest in that strip number.