Sarah Palin favors teaching creationism in schools.

[John Dibble]

It's a shame natural selection doesn't seem to apply to threads.

Well, threads don't reproduce, but perhaps if you viewed posts as the children of threads then natural selection does occur. Threads that attract a lot of posters (let's say that's the thread equivalent of food) have more posts and are thus more successful. It just so happens that for some reason dumb threads are more successful, so this forum's natural selection favors dumb threads.

[John Dibble]

It's a shame natural selection doesn't seem to apply to threads.

Well, threads don't reproduce, but perhaps if you viewed posts as the children of threads then natural selection does occur. Threads that attract a lot of posters (let's say that's the thread equivalent of food) have more posts and are thus more successful. It just so happens that for some reason dumb threads are more successful, so this forum's natural selection favors dumb threads.

We should have a six billion word debate on this.  GO!

You know, you're only making this thread more successful.

[John Dibble]

It's a shame natural selection doesn't seem to apply to threads.

Well, threads don't reproduce, but perhaps if you viewed posts as the children of threads then natural selection does occur. Threads that attract a lot of posters (let's say that's the thread equivalent of food) have more posts and are thus more successful. It just so happens that for some reason dumb threads are more successful, so this forum's natural selection favors dumb threads.

We should have a six billion word debate on this.  GO!

You know, you're only making this thread more successful.

The absolute smartest or absolute dumbest threads tend to generate the fewest responses for obvious reasons; some threads are just too intelligent for most people to understand them, whilst others are so painfully stupid that no one will bother with responding. I suppose that dumb threads generally receive a disproportionally high amount of attention, both from people who actually enjoy the stupidity and exasperated others who add comments anyhow. However, intelligent threads can and do receive attention, though perhaps not often enough to drown out the less intelligent ones.

Is it just a horribly funny coincidence that sex-related threads are oftentimes the most successful at reproducing?

So, in other words our forum topics are like the human race. In truth nobody likes the mentally disabled, and geniuses are too smart to get laid. The ultimate result is that the stupid and mediocre get lots of attention and reproduce on a large scale, but occasionally some really smart nerd might get laid. Is that what you're trying to say?