Which CFC thread you have started do you regard as your best one?

[madviking]

my next one

 

[Loppan Torkel]

Note: this is a feel-good thread, cause we all here are known to be polite grown-ups and wish only to advance the lives of others at every chance we get

Looking back didn't give me a feel-good feeling

 

[JollyRoger]

I regret the youthful indiscretion of starting the first thread on the Trayvon Martin homicide and the two additional threads in that series - so that is my "best" in terms of high volume.

It's hard to pick the best as far as quality, but this one achieved the objective, even after the ruse was revealed - Polygamy: Legal or not?

One I didn't start, but had the most fun trolling was: Paris Hilton is out of jail!?!

I trolled those that had a tendency to:

equate crimes with illegal aliens
complain about frivolous lawsuits
extol the virtues of the free market system
disdain class warfare/jealousy
not like average criminals having rights
be supportive of inheritance rights
dislike Al Sharpton and his ilk
hate judicial activism
back law enforcement
be critical of government bureaucrats
hate gay pride parades

Often, I was able to troll 2 or 3 concepts in a single post. Luckily, it was 2007 and I only got infracted once in that thread. Had it been 2010 to 2012, I would have earned untold number of infractions.

 

[Bootstoots]

This OP's pretty decent too, IMO.

I clicked on that link and then left for another tab. Several minutes later, I came back and saw the OT moderating guidelines. I couldn't remember why I'd clicked on it - it is of course a very useful guide on just what do to those proles who step out of line, but I didn't remember having to consult it today. Half an hour later, why I was there suddenly dawned on me.

The best part is about what to do when on every day of the year whose month and day multiplies to be one less than a prime number. Take that number (the prime number, not the number below it) modulo 45, click on the thread on the first page that corresponds to that number (numbering from the top), and click on the posting history of the user in the post that corresponds to your dice roll. Look as far back as you need to find something you can plausibly give an infraction for, up to a maximum of two weeks. If you fail to find anything even remotely infractable, or the poster is a mod, or there aren't enough posts in the thread to correspond to the number you rolled, apply the procedure to the OP instead. If you fail to find anything, skip to post 2, then to post 19, and then 20 and so on.

The subsequent study was good too. The safest posts are ones after post 20 of a thread, followed by 18 and 3 (only 1/216 chance); the most dangerous ones are 10 and 11 (each 1/8 chance), followed closely by 9 and 12, and then by the OP. The OP's odds are above those of all posts outside 9-12 because they tend to be more established posters and tend to have something infractable somewhere in the last few days. Then the odds mostly follow 3-dice probabilities, except that 2 follows 5-16 and 19 is slightly more common than 3 or 18. But posters here are ill-behaved enough that the farthest anyone's had to go is to post 23, and that only happened once.

Remember, lowly commoners, that you only have to worry on days whose month and day multiply to be one less than a prime number. This happens more often earlier in the year (January features a bunch of real killers). Also, every mod has the right to do this once on a given day, but exactly once, and only if they remember. They can perform the ritual whenever in the day they see fit, as long as they haven't looked through the OT threads in the past half hour. The procedure applies to the threads in the order they happen to be when they then click on OT.

I...may have said too much.

 

[Phrossack]

Possibly the armour thread, but it got Polejacked pretty quickly. I should have called it the "Non-Polish armour thread."

 

[Joecoolyo]

I rarely if ever start threads, but I think my most successful one was that one IOT thread I made, the developmental thread. It was only supposed to be used to discuss that iteration of IOT and what to do with it, but for some reason everyone continued to use it and 7,000 replies later it still exists.

 

[Tee Kay]

The original Iron and Blood thread, despite the fact I bailed out halfway through, and it was kiwitt who really made it what it was.

Subsequent attempts to improve on that hadn't turn out too well.