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OP I suppose this has been done to death, but if so I haven't smelled any corpses redolent of mortal corruption just yet ...
Anyway, what drives threads? Somebody has an idea to throw into the ring and duly does so. People respond and the thread rapidly but surely veers wildly off in some unintended (but usually interesting) direction totally unintended by its author.
Like this one will.
Then, after a while, they just "peter" out. Stop. Cease. Desist. People no longer post to them, and they are eventually archived.
Why? What drives it? I'm currently watching the thread I started on Rodent-Related Sayings. If no more posts are made to that thread for, say, the next couple of days, I'm picking that it'll die.
Comments on the back of a postcard, please ...
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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