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Username: Jdkeepsmiling
Post Number: 185
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 - 12:57 am: |    |
How come I can post a thread about exurban decline and someone else can post a thread about station wagons and get more responses??? This more of a post to spur debate about what goes on here then an actual critique. I understand my thread could just suck  |
Detroit_stylin
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Username: Detroit_stylin
Post Number: 3816
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 - 1:05 am: | |
Dont feel too bad Jd. I myself have have a few threads die within 5 posts...
lol |
Kathinozarks
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Username: Kathinozarks
Post Number: 189
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 - 1:07 am: | |
We had a Country Squire.
and an Aspen...
(Message edited by kathinozarks on February 13, 2007) |
Jdkeepsmiling
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Username: Jdkeepsmiling
Post Number: 187
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 - 1:17 am: | |
Exactly my point Threadjacked by a Buick Roadmaster |
Jeduncan
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Username: Jeduncan
Post Number: 35
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 - 1:56 am: | |
people like the wagons, man. Also, one is far less prone to ridicule if they throw a hand in the air for a mom-mobile. |
Bobj
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Username: Bobj
Post Number: 1726
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 - 11:22 am: | |
try hi jacking a thread, sometimes that actually will last longer than a new thread |
Michmeister
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Username: Michmeister
Post Number: 107
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 - 12:09 pm: | |
Better thread-jacked than car-jacked! |
Jimaz
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Username: Jimaz
Post Number: 1546
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 - 12:29 pm: | |
I choose to let my threads die with dignity. 
Seriously though, it would be interesting to study what causes a thread to fly. I'd guess it depends mostly on who happens to see it.
I'll predict this thread will soon flop ... because I'd rather see it live a long and happy life. |
Ndavies
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Username: Ndavies
Post Number: 2444
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 - 12:38 pm: | |
Two types of threads last. The first is the kind of thread that a bunch of people love the item being discussed. The second is the type that generates a moderate amount of disagreement.
If everyone agrees but doesn't love the item discussed, it will die right away. If a thread has too much animosity it will also die a quick death since people will avoid joining it. |
Bobj
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Username: Bobj
Post Number: 1729
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 - 1:13 pm: | |
OK, then we need some moderate disagreement to keep this going.
I disagree with you that threads with a lot of animosity die out, they go on and on, but with a small group of diehards. |
Ray1936
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Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 1133
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 - 2:21 pm: | |
Maybe because "exurban decline" sounds to cranial for me. Station wagons I know. |
Spitty
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Username: Spitty
Post Number: 528
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 - 2:30 pm: | |
Maybe because no one likes you.
Me myself personally, I tend to stay away from threads about exurbs as just the thought of them depresses me. I don't care about exurbs - they're kind of the exact opposite of what I care about. I don't even care enough about them to hate them. Why would I care about people who want to be as far away as possible from all of the things that I would like to be near (except, of course, crime). You might as well have started a thread about the decline of Roscommon for all I care. |
Jdkeepsmiling
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Username: Jdkeepsmiling
Post Number: 190
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 - 2:34 pm: | |
Now that is one of the more intelligent critiques of me that I have heard on here Spitty. That makes sense. |
Tetsua
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Username: Tetsua
Post Number: 1104
Registered: 01-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 - 2:48 pm: | |
quote:Seriously though, it would be interesting to study what causes a thread to fly
Ever notice how if "crime", or "shooting" is in the title of a thread it ballons in a matter of hours? Negative threads get way more post than the positive in general. |
Jdkeepsmiling
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Username: Jdkeepsmiling
Post Number: 192
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 - 3:02 pm: | |
Also anything that could possibly be conceived as being racist... even if it is not. |
Yelloweyes
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Username: Yelloweyes
Post Number: 55
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 - 4:43 pm: | |
Put Hall Road in the title, you will get a lot of responses. |
Royce
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Username: Royce
Post Number: 2056
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 - 5:10 pm: | |
I know when people see my name the thread usually dies. I wonder why that is? |
Royce
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Username: Royce
Post Number: 2058
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 14, 2007 - 6:05 pm: | |
See, I told you all. |
Tetsua
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Username: Tetsua
Post Number: 1110
Registered: 01-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 14, 2007 - 6:08 pm: | |
Watch the thread with "homicide" in the title end up with over 100 post. |
Bobj
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Username: Bobj
Post Number: 1738
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 10:36 am: | |
Abortion seems to fuel the threads on the non-Detroit side |
Dabirch
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Username: Dabirch
Post Number: 2081
Registered: 06-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 6:30 pm: | |
quote:Abortion seems to fuel the threads...
Quick, get Techtown on the line, we may have found the next big alternative energy source. |