Threads you created, but got unexpected posts.

[SkullCap]

Today I created an Off-topic discussion thread, "The world would be a better if..."

I intended for it to be a light-hearted post for quick laughs and light-hearted responses for simple laughs like "World would be better if people didn't come over to my lane in traffic w/o their blinker on." *snare drum* Instead I got replies of unwanted debates. I'm in college so I get enough of that every single day. I was caught in unwanted debates and I'm too tired to post my reasons for certain topics.

I've had to change my thread so I could stop those posts and that got me thinking. What are some threads that you created in the past that got unexpected posts?

 

[Avatar Roku]

Honestly, I could see that coming in your example. The internet is "serious business", after all... [/sarcasm]

 

[Amnestic]

This has been annoying me for a while now:

A thread is not a forum.

Please people, get it right.

What are some forums that you created in the past that got unexpected posts?

Generally any thread which I participate in gets an unwanted response at least once.

Like that one Twilight thread where I posted a picture of a beautiful twilit sunset.

Or the recent thread about Modern Warfare 2 Prestige head surgery in which I managed to provoke half the respondents to put down their respective version of the 'Night Vision Goggle noise'.

 

[GodofDisaster]

My latest thread, about the 10 year old who got tasered. I actually wasn't expecting it to be over 400 posts.

 

[Sassafrass]

Posted a user review a while back now, and had one guy who just keep replying 'You iz God?' to all my posts.

It was weird.

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

Or the recent thread about Modern Warfare 2 Prestige head surgery in which I managed to provoke half the respondents to put down their respective version of the 'Night Vision Goggle noise'.

Hee hee, that was funny.

I posted a video of myself playing a blues rock jam in the Escapist Jam sessions, and received a remarkably angry reply telling me I had mislabelled it by calling it 'blues'. (For the record, I knew it was more rock and roll, but the backing track I used was called Devil's Corner Blues, so it made sense).

I started a thread about times when you 'outsmarted teacher' expecting to get some marginally funny stories, and instead a couple of people took it upon themselves to respond angrily and tell us that we were clearly delusional. It was only a joke people.

 

[Tharwen]

My cake or death thread

I got reported

Actually I was half expecting that anyway...

 

[Frankydee]

My last one which was about my technical troubles I was having trying to get virtual box to allow my ipod to be recognized by a windows XP partition.

got a few responses but nothing particularly helpful. Mostly just got people telling me my pre-installed music player should do the job just as well.

[small]but that wasn't the point...[/small]

 

[DuplicateValue]

My latest thread, about the 10 year old who got tasered. I actually wasn't expecting it to be over 400 posts.

Government action AND parental rights AND violence in one topic? All you were missing was religion and piracy, and you would have had about 4,000 posts.

So technically a "10 year old Muslim kid gets tasered while downloading Modern Warfare 2" thread should be foolproof!

 

[zombiejoe]

I know a friend that once made a thread about somthing he noticed in Fallout 3, and the disscusion changed into somthing about kittens.

*.* weird, right?