The Year’s Top Threads

2007 was a time of transformation for the Negril Message Board. The “new” format finally took root enabling boardies to interact in ways that showed us all something new. Pictures were featured in posts more frequently and in greater abundance than ever before. Discussions grew to epic proportions with hundreds of posts in a single thread. YouTube videos added a fun new dimension to posts, both fueling and cooling heated exchanges.

Trip reports during 2007 took audience participation to new levels and generated incredible accumulations of views and posted responses. Adventures that spread across several days, and lots of Jamaican territory with it’s hot and cold running trade winds, made for compelling reading. Oh, what arguments sprung forth!

Discussions were spawned that drew more than 100 posted responses and thousands of views. The Thanksgiving Week Roll Call was the longest single thread with 354 posts and 4601 views. Hot spin-off threads from intensely followed discussions coalesced into Mega-threads - mini boards unto themselves with upwards of 300 posts and 7,000 views.

The FOJ Bashment Thread was the first of the mega-threads. It contains 347 posts that garnered a total of 7296 views. Michael's Trip Report Compilation is the newest and largest of the mega-threads. At 460 posts with 10,971 views and growing, it closes a stellar 2007 and ushers in the New Year with a big bang.

During 2007, boardies posted more than 85,000 times in discussions running the full gamut - from joy to tragedy, adventure to quiet reflection, bar life to home life, pet life to sea life. Add to that all the conversation about Negril and the rest of Jamaica, and you get some idea of the posting activity…

On top of that, there were millions of page views by the shadowy "lurkers" on board.

So, you might wonder, "What was everybody looking at and talking about?"

Here's two charts that provide us with a rough idea of what topics stood out this year. They can't really tell us what people actually "liked" or "cared about", but they do show what discussions inspired the most participation, and the most lurking.

Which thread was the best thread of 2007? You'll have to decide that.

	Top 17 Discussions of 2007
No.	Link	Started By	# Posts	Views
1	Michael's Trip Report Compilation	Michael(Casstaway)	460	10,971
2	Thanksgiving Week Roll Call	Buffy	354	4,601
3	FOJ Bashment Thread	Rambo	347	7,296
4	Love those Curves	Papamark	311	6,156
5	Posting in patois, dialect or whatever	Penny and Pete	246	3,404
6	Favourite Pic "Hustlers" On The Beach	First Bargain Station	205	5,671
7	Trying to start warm and fuzzy pet thread	linger	198	1,621
8	What do you do? I want to know!	Alexandra	187	3,263
9	Has any one seen Bea?	Sunshine	168	2,491
10	Smoke	Jamaica Jeff	160	4,288
11	Let's see your pet(s)!	Coconut	140	1,773
12	Negril's Not So Famous Cave	rjonsun	132	2,086
13	New thread... Michael's 6th report	Wendy	131	2,612
14	Back Home Early Due to Heart Attack	flfungal	129	2,403
15	Jamaican Puppy	Cathie	127	1,927
16	They Stuck Me in the Hospital	Capt Rob	120	1,508
17	STRAIGHT Lines...	Katani	109	1,349

	Top 20 Lurker Threads of 2007
No.	Link	Started By	# Posts	Views
1	Love those Curves	Papamark	311	6,156
2	Favourite Pic "Hustlers" On The Beach	First Bargain Station	205	5,671
3	Thanksgiving Week Roll Call	Buffy	354	4,601
4	Smoke	Jamaica Jeff	160	4,288
5	Claudia	Selina	86	3,864
6	Posting in patois, dialect or whatever	Penny and Pete	246	3,404
7	What do you do? I want to know!	Alexandra	187	3,263
8	See the Fury of Hurricane Dean	Garzan	21	3,011
9	Trip Report Number Two - Never Anger a Rasta	Mark	111	2,991
10	Pics from Today! 20/08/07 Negril West End	bnewbie	45	2,964
11	No One Was Mugged in Negril	yamangurl	121	2,904
12	You are not Safe @ White Sands	Charlene	96	2,708
13	New thread... Michael's 6th report	Wendy	131	2,612
14	Post-Dean beach pictures?	Ihart	17	2,548
15	It‘s So Slow in Negril	Q-ball	104	2,532
16	Back Home Early Due to Heart Attack	flfungal	129	2,403
17	Has any one seen Bea?	Sunshine	168	2,491
18	Onsite trip report : I‘m back in Negril	Jahja	59	2,386
19	Greetings from Negril	dreadneck	69	2,379
20	"stop breaking all the laws"	papi	79	2,299