You ever get that feeling that you’re arrived too late at a thread, yet still post, or regardless of thread length what you’ve just posted will put an end to it, and in either case that particular discussion is hereby resigned to the dustbin of page 2 and beyond?
Me too.
So I looked it up. Based upon the last 100 posts I’ve done, fully 10% are the last posts in a thread. One out of every 10 times I post, that thread is history. That is one high number.
Oh, and here’s a suggestion if you like your threads long and with lots of responses: make sure all your threads from here on out say “rexnervous, no posting here please”
I’ve killed threads that I’ve started. I think the mods should keep me on speed dial and when a thread has gone on and on beyond its natural life ask me to weigh in an put it out of its misery.
Take a good, hard, look at what happend in the thread Nightwatch, linked to. It was horrifying. IHKATAM threated the very existence of this message board as we know it. Please, for the love of the children, do not make this a thread-killing contest. It’ll only end in tears, I assure you.
Well, one could argue that your contribution to each thread is so definitive, so insightful, so complete that there is nothing left to be said on the topic. To follow such a masterful post would be to stare one’s own shortcomings in the eye.
One could easily argue that. One would be wrong, of course. The truth is that the members of this message board universally find you distasteful and droll, and avoid you wherever possible.
I’d like to point out that people who vie for title of “Threadkiller” in threads like this actually hurt their threadkilling numbers, by watering down their kill-to-post ratio. In the 8 bazillion other threadkiller threads, a mod invariably locks it down, ensuring that no one, in fact, receives the ill-sought after title.
Proof of threadkilling powers would be killing this thread. I predict a victory for Cajun Man. Again.
Myself, I’m running about 5% – and that’s on threads, not posts. I rarely go more than a month without killing a thread, but I’ve learned not to mention it in polite company.
As Nightwatch Trailer pointed out, these things tend to develop a life of their own.
I used to think that I was a thread killer. Then I realized that I have a tendency to post in threads where the participants have said all they want to say, and no one is reading anymore. That’s what I get for skimming through the forums looking for threads with the most replies.
