Concocting a successful thread.

@indonesia-phil said
Make that 12, I don't know about humour, but here's a limerick, (which might count as poetry??)

There was a young man from Calcutta
Who sat in a bath full of butter
He could make it sound sane
When he tried to explain
But he's really a bit of a nutter.

(I've just been to India)

I think you are a very nice person, and I just thumbed - up your post, which I ...[text shortened]... ds having a chat about nothing in particular, which are in my opinion the very best kind of threads.

Thank you Phil, 🙂 I too enjoyed your India thread / journal. My sisters did a trip around the Seychelles, the former Bombay and Sri Lanka with our brother who then worked for BOAC. The number of child beggars were a shock to them.

@divegeester said
Seems reasonable; in that case I’d say it was a sense of team achievement and that would be measured by the number of posts divided by the number of posters. The smaller the number the more successful the thread.

Didn't you mean the larger the number of posters the more successful the thread?

-VR

@very-rusty said
LOL...I guess lots of people read my posts if you are going by the thumbs up/down as a successful thread. 😉

-VR

Exactly! Nothing worse than being invisible Rusty.

Some posters go to great lengths to get noticed like getting extra accounts with usernames that shock.

You manage it all by yourself 😉

@drewnogal said
Exactly! Nothing worse than being invisible Rusty.

Some posters go to great lengths to get noticed like getting extra accounts with usernames that shock.

You manage it all by yourself 😉

I wouldn't know as I've never been invisible drewnogal, or you wouldn't be answering me. 😛 😉

They did have a program out though where you could make it so you didn't see any of someone's posts. Perhaps you could try that?

-VR

@drewnogal said
A number of posters (11), repartee, humour, poetry, compliments, some UP thumbs....

A few sub-texts or cross-threads, often consisting of banter or running jokes between well-known posters, sometimes helps to keep a thread going and interesting and reap a few more UPs.

That'll be 1200 pounds for the advice, thank you.

And no, you cannot have the gerbil.

@moonbus said
A few sub-texts or cross-threads, often consisting of banter or running jokes between well-known posters, sometimes helps to keep a thread going and interesting and reap a few more UPs.

That'll be 1200 pounds for the advice, thank you.

And no, you cannot have the gerbil.

A gerbil link (guaranteed to make you belly laugh) is also a real thread winner.

YouTube


Edit: Please don't watch if of a delicate disposition.

@moonbus said
A few sub-texts or cross-threads, often consisting of banter or running jokes between well-known posters, sometimes helps to keep a thread going and interesting and reap a few more UPs.

That'll be 1200 pounds for the advice, thank you.

And no, you cannot have the gerbil.

Always trying to make a buck even if it is useless info!!! 😛 😉

-VR

@ghost-of-a-duke said
A gerbil link (guaranteed to make you belly laugh) is also a real thread winner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_Jt_g10Jug


Edit: Please don't watch if of a delicate disposition.

LOL.

However, one of the less pleasing, though regrettably too common, ingredients of successful threads is when a pedant corrects a philistine. Thus,

https://www.thoughtco.com/gerbilling-mishap-injures-two-4015642

Awww, spoil sport.

@moonbus said
Awww, spoil sport.

typo...
i think you meant, "soil sport"...

you are forgiven...

@moonbus said
A few sub-texts or cross-threads, often consisting of banter or running jokes between well-known posters, sometimes helps to keep a thread going and interesting and reap a few more UPs.

That'll be 1200 pounds for the advice, thank you.

And no, you cannot have the gerbil.

£1200 for advice with abbreviations?
What is the cost if you explain UPs to me?

@drewnogal said
£1200 for advice with abbreviations?
What is the cost if you explain UPs to me?

Thumbs up.

No additional charge.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
A gerbil link (guaranteed to make you belly laugh) is also a real thread winner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_Jt_g10Jug


Edit: Please don't watch if of a delicate disposition.

That was bloody funny, it'll probably keep me going all day, thanks for sharing....

@indonesia-phil said
That was bloody funny, it'll probably keep me going all day, thanks for sharing....

I listened to it 3 times in a row. 😀

@ghost-of-a-duke said
I listened to it 3 times in a row. 😀

Did you get on the 3rd try? 😉 😛

-VR

@very-rusty said
Did you get on the 3rd try? 😉 😛

-VR

I listen to you day in, day out, and still don't get you.

😵