The key to making a good thread!?

[Roc]

What is the "key" to making a great thread?
Advice and inspiration would be appreciated.

[Norton]

What is the "key" to making a great thread?

About the same way the movies work. Sex and violence subjects seem to work well. Slagging off Thailand is a sure winner. Oh and the blockbusters are always ones that criticize merika!

[November Rain]

Start up a slagging match. Not a bad enough one to get moved to MKP, but enough to get people a bit passionate...

[NickA]

What is the "key" to making a great thread? Advice and inspiration would be appreciated.

Yep, you need it.

Try not posting one/two line inane questions and work from there.

But to answer you're question you first need to decide what a great thread is. It could be a wonderful travel or building thread with pictures and the chance to learn through others' real life experiences, or it could be CMN muttering on about teenage TV shows.

[slimboyfat]

a good blow by blow account of a disastrous relationship is always popular.

eg Scampy and Sandra, NickA and a block of wood etc

I tried my best with a Cornish Pasty thread but it just didn't capture the imagination of TD members

[NickA]

Beards

[chitown]

Start up a slagging match. Not a bad enough one to get moved to MKP, but enough to get people a bit passionate...

Speaking from experience???

Maybe that will get this thread going!!!!!!!!

[slimboyfat]

Beards

Hmmmm......one day I may have a proper one. I wake up every morning full of hope, and rush to the bathroom mirror, only to have my hopes dashed once again.

But there is always tomorrow.......

[slimboyfat]

I am taking about a beard by the way

[The Gentleman Scamp]

Stiffy the Ponk.

[Gallowspole]

How do you define a good thread? Quantity before quality?

[slimboyfat]

one that manages to stay on topic for the first 10 posts

[The Gentleman Scamp]

^ You didn't answer his question.

[slimboyfat]

i was answering Gallowspole's question

[jizzybloke]

pictures of tits!

[slimboyfat]

i just unwrapped an interesting gold wrapped sweety , popped it in my mouth and realised it was a Knorr stock cube after I bit into it. Then i spat it out again in disgust. There will be interrogations tomorrow to find out who sabotaged the sweet bowl in the fridge.

i thought you may find this faintly amusing but decided it didn't deserve its own thread. Excuse me for a minute while I brush my teeth.

[kingwilly]

i thought you may find this faintly amusing but decided it didn't deserve its own thread.

yes n yes.

[CharleyFarley]

much harder to make centuries without Ant & T57 around

[stroller]

Smear a TV or Ajarn mod, that seems to work well.

The Title is important, even with crap content it will pull off - have a look at CMN's drivel.

[stroller]

Nice picture threads attract greens, but not many responses.

[kingwilly]

The Title is important, even with crap content it will pull off - have a look at CMN's drivel.

hmmm, quite.

[NickA]

There will be interrogations tomorrow to find out who sabotaged the sweet bowl in the fridge.

I'm a bit concerned SBF, don't you live on your own?

[Begbie]

i just unwrapped an interesting gold wrapped sweety , popped it in my mouth and realised it was a Knorr stock cube after I bit into it. Then i spat it out again in disgust. There will be interrogations tomorrow to find out who sabotaged the sweet bowl in the fridge.

i thought you may find this faintly amusing but decided it didn't deserve its own thread. Excuse me for a minute while I brush my teeth.

Scampy would definately have used this as the basis for a century thread.

[ChiangMai noon]

I like the fact that my linux thread is well into it's second century and i didn't even open it.

way to go mods, great split.

[Carnwadrick]

A great thread would be one where I couldn't possibly add any of my usual dribble