The most annoying open thread

At first it was funny, but now it is not. The thread that won't die, and pops up month after month after month. My candidate: the "if you know" thread. Most oldtimers on the site know it. And if you don't know it today, you probably will.

Mine is urt or heal e4 openings. I made the mistake of posting in there on one of the 1st pages, and now it keeps on coming up in my "Topics I have posted in"

 Oh, yes, didn't it just pop up again today?

yeah, I don't touch those hurt heal threads.

It's up to post #838 on page 42. Only another 58 pages (~1160 posts) to go and it fall foul of the 100 page limit. Hang on in there.

I would have to vote for this thread(just kidding CrazyC).

     Speaking of posts, what do you all think of Chess.com adding a "Frequent
Writers" section in addition to the few in the "Top Bloggers" section.
     This could be reserved for members who have posted over a certain amount,
or have been here a year or two, or some similar criteria.
     Chess.com has more than doubled in membership in less than a year and
posting is not as fun because our posts are getting lost in the shuffle quicker and
we are getting less reads and it is much harder to find the good posts.

Create a monthly thread called 'The Best of chess.com (Month X)'. Allow people to recommend their favourite threads. The reviewer (different each time?) selects from the nominees and consolidates a list in the first post.

That's not a bad idea, would it work?

Only one way to find out.

What's the worst that can happen? The review thread itself makes it onto this list of most annoying open threads.

 LOL. But if it drifts to 20+ pages, who knows, you may be right!

artfizz, since you came up with the idea start the thread and let's see what
happens.

There are a number of ways of addressing this.

Currently, the listing of topics shows # of POSTS. This gives undue prominence to 'harmless fun' threads such as word-association, help-set-a-new-chesscom-record and what-comes-to-mind (to cite the top 3).

It would be more helpful to show # of UNIQUE POSTERS - since I reckon such threads end up being kept active by a relatively small number of posters. This would enable threads such as greatest-chess-photos to achieve greater prominence - reflecting the fact that there were a large number of different contributors.

Additionally, when you look at a listing of your own content, you are shown # of VIEWS as well as # of COMMENTS. It would be helpful to show # of UNIQUE VIEWS for the general topics listing. Again, this would highlight the threads of widespread interest over the ones looked at many times by a relatively small group of posters.

Another approach would be to extend Most Recent Posts:

The Most Recent Posts list on the Forum page contains about 10 items. It shows the posts which have been most recently updated. (Off-Topic posts are not featured). Since new posts are arriving at a rate of several per minute (depending on time of day) , a post may be visible for only  about 2 minutes.

It is possible to list the posts in creation order, by using a trick: leave the forum search box empty - and click on search. A list of all the posts ever written are now displayed, 10 to a page. They can be sorted by Most recent or # of posts. However, most recent in relation to this full list means: most recently created- not most recently updated.

So, first: shouldn't the Most recent posts heading be a link that takes you to the full list?

Secondly, it would be more logical for most recent to have the same semantics in both cases - preferably most recently updated. (Or, better still, offer both most recently created and most recently updated as separate options).

I begin to spot a couple of flaws with this approach. If other readers are on the same wavelength as the reviewer, they will probably already have seen the recommended threads. If they're not, they won't appreciate the recommended threads anyway.

I haven't got one thread, but there seems to have been a lot of annoying "hey, I created a whole new opening, what do you think?" threads recently

 Speaking of the devil, it just popped up once again!

And again today!

Adding I'm done with Chess. Good Bye

Word association, and Corrupt-a-Wish.

Those both have been here since the begging.