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• Ioan commented on Brief hiatus
  I didn't know which thread to put this question in, since the thread "The Present in Deep History" was closed. I wanted to ask this question yesterday, but I was too busy. What are the 5 longest threads on this board? I remember that someone had asked this question in the previous longest thread....
• Moderator Alan commented on Brief hiatus
  Since you ask: The present in deep history (Sep 6 2015) : 1533 A different cluetrain (Feb 25 2015) : 967 Two Thoughts (Jul 19 2015) : 908 Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire (Dec 18 2013): 902 The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots (Apr 5 2015) : 851 Quite a jump to get a thread about 60% longer than any previous one....
• paws4thot commented on Brief hiatus
  Domo orogato Alan sama....
• Scott Sanford commented on Brief hiatus
  Not only 60% longer, but after it was closed there were still spinoff posts. I'm not sure the topic was exhausted; with 700 years of undefined history after the subject period, we didn't get much focus for judging what the hypothetical historians might care about....
• Moderator Alan commented on Brief hiatus
  It had been a couple of days from the last comment, so my judgement is that it was pretty close to exhausted. I'd agree that the subject per se may not have been, but an entry with that number of comments is pretty unwieldy — anybody newly arriving has an enormous number of comments to read before they can be sure they're not repeating an already-made point....