That is surprising, freda! I think the Short Thread should meet these criteria: It should garner no response whatsoever in the first 24 hours or until it falls off the board into the limbo of past threads. It doesn't matter if it later resurfaces due to the activity of some pest like beardedbruce. It doesn't matter how long the initial post is that launches it. This suggests an interesting notion to me...if the original post were not only very boring, but also incredibly long and tedious to get through, I would think this would increase the chances of the thread not being responded to. It might help if it's written in Danish too. Or Swahili.