What is a vanity thread?

Kilmore said:

Okay, I just made all that up.

Yes. Yes, you did. :D

Before I move this to Meta, I should explain, huh? An example (no offense intended to Wolf72) might be "What's your favorite jelly bean?" It's a thread that really adds more chaff than wheat, and doesn't even especially provide insight about the people on the boards. I'm tempted to cite the Texas/Tejas thread as well, stuff that's OT and which has a really limited potential audience.

Mind you, it's good to have some OT threads, because they bind us together as friends and let us share other common interests. It's always best to use good judgment when posting OT threads, though. They're more tolerable when there are only a few of them active, and ones that actually inform or educate are cooler than ones that are "Gee, I'm bored, I think I'll start a new thread and post random stuff."

Really, the only problem is that we got a LOT of OT threads at once, and that can get distracting.
 
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i think of vanity threads as things like "What is your favorite band?" where the purpose of the thread is just for people to talk about themselves...
 


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