To answer the poll you're all going to have to do a bit of math and a bit of work. The goal of the thread is to give folk a realistic idea of what they can expect when starting new threads.
To do this, I'd like you all to do a search for all of the threads that you've started. You can use the box titled "Search by User Name", type in your name and select "Find Threads Started by User". You're also going to want to Select "Thread Start Date" and "In Ascending Order" under the title "Sort Results by"
Here is mine.
You can see that I've started 30 threads, 5 of which have the "hot thread" icon on the left. So, 5/30= 16.7% of my threads. I realize that quite of few of you have more than 10x the number of threads and I don't expect you to count them all. What I'd like you all to do is check out your first 40 threads.
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example (from Willravel's post history - I didn't think he'd mind). You can see 40 threads, 12 with the hot thread tags giving us 12/40 or 30%
The idea here is to give newcomers and idea of what to expect when they start out. And hopefully, some very concrete evidence to help them not get discouraged from posting new threads, just because the first one or two flop or they feel like they're not in the 'in' crowd.