Largest response to answer bank question

[hazy123]

What is the largest reply to a question on here (answer bank) that u have seen... the largest i have seen is 9 but theres gotta be higher ones than that. Cheers

[Buenchico]

In the days when this site used to have a 'chat' category ('Chatterbank'), open-ended questions such as "What's everyone doing tonight?" could generate hundreds of answers, with some individuals posting, say, 50 comments in one evening.

Now that Chatterbank no longer exists, chat-style questions shouldn't be asked (or if they are, they're meant to be reported and removed) but some still slip under the net (particularly in B&S). If they do, they can attract a large number of 'answers' (but often only from a small number of people)

'Genuine' questions (e.g. "Where can I buy . . ?") can often be answered fully with a single response.

Some questions invite personal opinions "e.g. Is Malta or Crete a better destination for a family holiday?". These tend to receive up to a dozen responses.

Questions which invite reminiscences (e.g. "What were your favourite sweets in the 1960s?") also tend to get plenty of responses.

Some of the biggest genuine reponses actually happen off-site. A guy posted on here, from the US, asking for information and advice about his forthcoming visit to the UK. The messages between him and me were becoming so numerous that we switched from AB to e-mails. So far, it's involved me in over 50 e-mails and posting (by snail mail) a 35 page, close-typed document of information. If I'd have tried to send that lot through AB's server, it might have blown a fuse :-)

Chris

[peanut]

Ive seen over 90, ill look and check back.

[peanut]

Ok i found it look here http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Body-and-Soul/Q uestion232574.html.

[peanut]

The link doesnt seem to work ill try again http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Body-and-Soul/Q uestion232574.html if that doesnt work ill just tell you there are 99 responses.

[vehelpfulguy]

This one has 151

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Body-and-Soul/Q uestion272761.html

[A Chill Wind]

See bernardo's responses.

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question18 0630.html

[chazza]

There's a question on body and soul (either the first or second page) about photos and it has almost 300 answers

[red7]

i startes a thread that got 50 answers.
i was about jesus. religon always provokes a response.

[red7]

lets make this one the longest!

[Dudley]

I posed one a while back (April I think) which reached 239 but the very next day Rugeleyboy posed one which I think went over 500. Dot or Kick will remember it.