I say this because I notice some of these questions are not really answerable at the moment, yet they are worthy of discussion. It seems to me creating a chat room would allow for a more relaxed atmosphere where various "theories" can be pondered upon.
I have no clue what x and y are.
From Casey's answer below, I forked one of the queries to perform this rough draft:
-- Questions with high score and high viewcount yet unanswered
-- Unanswered means any question that has not been formally accepted (there could be answers).
select top 500 Id as [Post Link], Score, ViewCount from Posts
where Score > 10 and ViewCount > 100 and ParentId is null and AcceptedAnswerId is null
order by ViewCount desc
Try it here: http://data.stackexchange.com/earthscience/query/edit/255433
There are probably better ways to do this. Let me know what you think.
Updated query with min comments
http://data.stackexchange.com/earthscience/query/edit/256871
These parameters show a few potential candidates.
daysold = 30
minscore = -5 (this should be low, right now it does not matter but in the future it may)
mincomments = 3