Im somewhat new here on 4chan (a year maybe).
I noticed the following:
There are threads where OP askes other anons to reply with something.
e.g. on /b/:
>ITT: we describe our sex live with movie titles
or on /g/:
>Screenfetch thread ! Show your screenfetch
Or the OP is asking for something related to the Lives or Person of the other anons.
Those Threads have a high reply rate but nobody is replying to each other.
Everbody is only interested to tell something about him/her self and it looks like nobody is reading posts.
Another example is currently the ylyl threads on /b/
What are those threads called? Are those indeed dead thread ?
A dead thread is when no one posts in it anymore. Mostly found on page 9 and 10.
A high reply count thread is far from dead
>>367724
I'd tell you to lurk more but at least you know how to use /wsr/
No those aren't dead threads. They don't have a proper name.
>it's another everybody posts, nobody reads thread
or something along those lines is commonly posted in them. They result from poor OPs that invite blogposting and not discussion. Also, there's a huge difference between those kind of threads and dump threads like ylyl or manga dumps on /a/, where the point of the thread is the images rather than discussion. The only reason to reply in ylyl (other than to ask did he died or something) is to be a form of upboating, which is frowned upon by non-faggots
t. 4chan mememeister