Pokebis wrote:

Bad threads generally have long strings of single-word/short sentence reply with many pages yet little to none, and somehow usually no, substance.
They can be attempted to counteracted with legitimate discussion, but will generally be flooded by a bunch of posts by internet babies who think posting "ok" will somehow add flavor to the thread and make something funny.
Having a serious or even an actually humorous discussion with original content is very difficult due to the "bad thread" bacteria that exists within this community.
"Discussion" is what they feed upon until it is completely destroyed as the meaningful posts get buried in the OMG KAWAII DESU NE~ of the majority. Sadly good posts are seldom read because of this. They will be flooded into the bottom of a random page where people will not view it because all the other posts on the page are crap and crap pages fill it until it reaches the next page of crap which will be the only thing people bother reading.

Another sign of a bad thread is a thread where the posters clearly do not understand the point of certain posts. For example, great scholars such as 31Gabe and kokoroanime are shunned upon because the bad thread bacteria cannot comprehend the genius of their posts. Sometimes forum users will deviate from the original or intentional discussion until the thread is a unavigatable blob of horrible. Hundreds of pages worth of posts may be present, but perhaps a single hundred posts are worth viewing. Or even less perhaps. Such a shame.

And in the end, bad threads infinitely perpetuate themselves as any counteraction to them such as the elusive and rare "Good Thread" are generally locked by humorless moderators who are afraid of the concept of a good thread existing on such a bad board. They will leave the bad threads and sometimes even encourage them chanting things like "this thread is Valhalla" whilst it is clearly not and is truly a pile of unfunny. The point is: bad threads are the mod's hugbox and good threads are torn down.

Natteke wrote:

Disappoint