CoinTalk's MOST POPULAR Threads of All time (by replies) Have you ever lurked or posted in the one of the most popular threads of all time? Check them out below, you might be surprised at how large some of these threads have grown over the years. Rank / Link 01 Keep one/Drop one 02 Roll-searchers, post your results! 03 Guess the next poster... 04 Let's see your newest acquisitions! 05 Four-Word Posts (4WP) 06 The New Keep One/Drop One 07 World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition! 08 Follow the lead picture post. 09 Follow the coin theme GAME - ancient edition - post ‘em if you got ‘em 10 Let's see your exonumia! 11 The juke box thread, post your favorites ! 12 Post a Toned Coin 13 The "Coin Uno" or "Follow the Leader" game (World Coins edition) 14 Post your Lincolns! 15 Stop what you’re doing, snap a picture, and post it right now. 16 Paper Money: New Acquisitions 17 Whatcha listening too? 18 Foodies, gather here... 19 [Game] World Coins Time Machine… Counting Backward by Year! 20 The Toning Premium Thread Part 2 21 "Follow The Leader" coin thread BY THEME 22 A world tour - post the next country. 23 Silver getting crushed today 24 Post your under $50.00 purchase... 25 Keep 2 Drop 1 26 How's the weather? 27 What are you Listening to - 2021 version ! 28 Next Level: GOLD $1,350.00 29 How's The Weather? 30 Perpetual What cha' listening too ? 31 Never ending thread 32 What happen to the word game ? 33 Reject Tube & Coinstar Finds 34 Post Your Morgan Dollars For myself, I like to follow the Foodie thread.
Good on you, @geekpryde , for being our resident statistician! I like your lists. I started #05 (the 4WP thread), but the idea wasn't original to me. I ripped it off from an old Collectors Universe Open Forum thread (way back when they still had an Open Forum, before the admins there nuked it). I started #13 (World Coins Follow the Leader) as well. @ldhair started the #08 "Follow the Leader" post on the US Coins forum, but he stole the concept from my 2005 "Coin UNO" thread on Collectors Universe, which is still going strong after more than 20 years. (Nevertheless, I credit him with a better title: "Follow the Leader" is better than "Coin UNO".) As far as I know, I am the inventor of the concept behind all these neverending "follow the leader" coin picture post games. Ever since I started #15 (the "Stop what you're doing and post a picture" thread), that thread has served as my diary of daily life. Usually pet pictures. My restaurant meals often end up in there, too, though I should probably be posting those in @masterswimmer 's "Foodies" thread (#18) instead . Funny, I only just now noticed he dedicated the Foodies thread to me and my affinity for ramen noodles. I am honored. #21 ("Folllow the Leader by THEME)? Yep, that's me too. The misspelling in the title of the #17 and #30 threads ("Whatcha Listening Too") [sic] has irked me for years, so I've had to resist the urge to use mod powers to go in and edit out that superfluous second "o". I've left it alone.
Thank you for this background info on some of the most popular threads of all time, and for of course, starting quite a few of them. I think the universal nature and sense of fun with many of your threads give them relevance year after year. Someone needs to resurrect the Silver and Gold threads above, now that there has been such a dramatic growth in spot prices (and likely inevitable future cooling off)
Some of the fun and the sad stuff about these threads. If you go back to page 1 of the threads and start there. It's like a history book of the forums user names of many great members. Sadly many have passed over the years. Back in the day you had to have a place to host your images. Many of those host are now long gone and the images no longer show. Now we just upload the images to the forum site and they host them for you. I started a Follow the Lead thread over on NGC back in 2006 and it was so popular that Dena pinned the thread to the top. It's now at over 11,000 post and over a million views and still going strong. I started the same thread here on CT back in 2010 and it has over 15 thousand post and 1.4 million views. It's really cool that all this history is still around for all to enjoy.
Yes, the transition of Photobucket from a good free image hosting site to a greedy, sleazy, sketchy site was a travesty. I still have a lot of images floating around in cyberspace that they pasted a giant Photobucket watermark over. Many of my earlier CoinTalk posts still have Photobucket images. At the time of their transition away from being a free site, I would have paid Photobucket a modest subscription fee to continue using the site, but they way they went about that transition was all wrong.
I would be banned if I said what I think about the bucket. Many folks did not save copies of their images and the bucket set a deadline on being able to download them. They made that process really slow. I remember spending many hours working on it. I did not trust what they were letting folks download so I bought a book drive just for those images. No way was I going to download them to my main hard drive. I was wrong but thought the download packets could contain something nasty.
