"Topics most likely to exceed 150 posts?" Topic

What topics are the most likely to spawn a sprawling mega-thread?

*Anything involving Napoleon
*Anything involving women
*Anything involving the Confederacy
*Points values, Jesus or Satan?
*TMP policy.
*Kids these days/people are too easily offended/people are not offended enough.

Your suggestions?

I picked 150 since gaming topics rarely reach that many.

The Host

Monty or Patton

Frothers!

Misogyny

NSFW

Bill's latest rule changes

"What is your favourite <insert random noun>?"

Apparently gaming the '98 with TSATF is as non-controversial as you can get. If a report runs to 8 posts, it consists of epturner and I talking to each other.

Napoleonic Women who moved to America and joined the Confederacy to do needlepoint. (Edit): Aaand had kids that got offended/not offended enough by TMP Policy.

Edit: Hey! You keep adding catagories! No fair!

2nd Edit: Duly amended.

The Host.

Related to that, "Move Historicon back to Pennsylvania."

Should women be allowed to even THINK about wargaming? (With the exception of buying stuff for boyfriends, or making cookies.)

Poor spelling and grammar.

Well,maybe this one,now,Winston!

You Don't Play Toy Soldiers Correctly

GW/Battlefront Are Interested in Making Money and that Sucks

Should women be allowed to serve in X branch of the military?

That's in the OP. As are two of David Manley's.

Ooh! "Nitpicking"!

Edit: Oops. Covered under "Napoleon".

2nd Edit: If anyone's wondering why I didn't nitpick DM'S "Bill's latest rules changes",the OP Weaseled "TMP Policy" in afterwards.

(Harumph!) Just keeping the Historical Record straight.

I am guilty of historical revisionism I guess :-)

Japan and the nuclear bombs?

Tango puts neat things up prolifically and I can't stop myself from clicking on them so it's his fault (or some variation thereof).

"Keeping the Historical Record Straight".

Edit: Or is that included in "Nitpicking"?

'What if' discussions?

Who is most sexy, Stephen Fry or Hugh Laurie?

The proper use of the apostrophe. It's its its.

Gunfreak, Ah'm startin' tuh worry 'bout you,boy.

Hey! You can't use that word here,John!

Edit: Oops,sorry,misread. Never mind.

There's that one called The Final Word or something like that. And for some reason those story threads where each new contribution furthers the tale go on quite a spell too.

You mean The Final Solution to the TMP Problem? That's secret,so no posts allowed.

Anything involving Larry Dunn of Karusan Miniatures and his bazzillion cowardly sock puppet accounts he use to blatantly attack and belittle competitors and rules designers both in forum land and on social media (FB).

Musical Instruments

Napoleon…

Napoleonic bricoles. Or is it drummers now…?

Home casting copies of soldiers or accessories.

Anything posed as a question to the membership – ie:
What's on your painting table?
How many sets of rules have you got?
Do you game with 6mm?
When did you start wargaming?
Do you use board games for your campaigns
etc etc etc

Doug

Color or Colour? Meter or Metre? (see, TMP underlined the correct spellings as wrong!) :D

Gunfreak, Ah'm startin' tuh worry 'bout you,boy.

What can't choose between Jeaves and Dr House?

Not historic enough?

Who is the sexiest Swedish king: Gustav Adolph or Charles XII?

How about this one?

youtu.be/CEMPGlMyX2g

Oh, something daft, something gentle, something non- antagonistic, non- confrontational, open to all, warming, something to calm and reinvigorate the soul, something non- celebrity. Something that really is the last word …

TMP link

your whole life through x

"Why I hate HMGS, Inc./East" Subtitled: Even though I haven't had anything to do with them since the year 1634.

For maximum length, it can't just be Napoleonic: it has to be unimportant or irrelevant Napoleonic.

For second place, go for something which is purely a matter of opinion. Facts tend to shorten arguments.

"Patton's bricoles – hidden beneath a flooded men's room at the Lancaster host?"

Didn't one of the recent flame wars and DH'ing revolve around Napoleonic drummers or hats or something?

Mostly how long it took to train a drummer. Page after weary page. Kind of petered out after an acrimonious argument about what was inside the head of the Drum Major's mace. An important question, apparently. Score:8 pages, 357 posts.

Hey Winston--I'll see your eight posts,and,um,"raise" you two:

TMP link

6 posts,four of them mine! Plus two Bashytubits memes.

Of course, they're in different catagories--
Yours: Somewhat obscure period.
Mine: No one cares (snif!)

What is the "standard" base size for 6mm

What does this have to do with wargaming?

That's a topic,not a question!

This doesn't usually generate a huge number of posts,admittedly. Really more a "Most annoying rant" topic,as here:

TMP link