# And the award for most likely to kill a thread goes to... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 8, 2006, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-likely-to-kill-a-thread-goes-to/363633 "2006-07-08T15:02:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Absolute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-likely-to-kill-a-thread-goes-to/363633/21 "2006-07-11T18:03:48Z")
I once tried to settle this question once and for all, but the mods did not approve. > **[Thread killer challenge: $20+ to the last poster in this thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=363778)** > > I saw this on another message board I read, and was somewhat amused by the idea. I will give $20 to the last person to reply to this thread, defined as the poster of the last reply in the thread after no one has replied for a week. The offer is... ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-likely-to-kill-a-thread-goes-to/363633/22 "2006-07-11T18:15:40Z")
Well, we’re past the 20-post point. Either is gets shuttered now, or at about 668 posts. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-likely-to-kill-a-thread-goes-to/363633/23 "2006-07-11T18:45:10Z")
You had typos, **Hal**. You know. Just…letting you know. _ahem_ ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-likely-to-kill-a-thread-goes-to/363633/24 "2006-07-11T20:05:35Z")
Whoops. Ok, thanks for the heads-up. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-likely-to-kill-a-thread-goes-to/363633/25 "2006-07-11T20:09:31Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] What’s worse is I can kill my own threads. [/QUOTE] Most of my threads died before they really had a chance to live. Tragic. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-likely-to-kill-a-thread-goes-to/363633/26 "2006-07-11T20:21:09Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] Most of my threads died before they really had a chance to live. Tragic. [/QUOTE] Stillborn threads. Something to think about. How to’s, etc. There was at least one thread not so long ago that approached the theme of “what thread title is most likely to be avoided?” It might be worth another such thread to see if we can come up with some Stillborns. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-likely-to-kill-a-thread-goes-to/363633/27 "2006-07-11T23:25:36Z")
So, I see this thread is still kickin’. Kickin’ it is…yup… …definitely kickin’. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-likely-to-kill-a-thread-goes-to/363633/28 "2006-07-12T01:37:17Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Stillborn threads. Something to think about. How to’s, etc. [/QUOTE] A quick search reveals I’ve got five stillborns to my credit. ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-likely-to-kill-a-thread-goes-to/363633/29 "2006-07-12T02:06:34Z")
155 “stillborns” last month alone, remember. Here is a sampling of the thread titles : the perils of online dating Ozzfest 2006 We need a Kruschev, not a belly kisser! Civil War Regiment Numbering Teach me to whistle loudly with my fingers Simulating a Ph meter probe Flash Audio Players? Immortal Ovaries origin of Pagodas? Latin experts - translation? Personal Stories from the Somme Calling All Artistic Types If there’s a pattern to these, I can’t discern it. ---
**Author:** ![Lama\_Pacos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Lama\_Pacos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lama_Pacos)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-likely-to-kill-a-thread-goes-to/363633/30 "2006-07-12T02:33:14Z")
I just did the enthralling calculations, and discovered I’ve killed 6.3% of all threads I’ve posted in. ---
**Author:** ![kinoons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a698b9/32.png) [@kinoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kinoons)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-likely-to-kill-a-thread-goes-to/363633/31 "2006-07-12T06:15:56Z")
[QUOTE=Uncommon Sense] How does one figure out how many threads they were the last to post to? How do you search for that? [/QUOTE] I did a search for every post I’ve ever made on the SDMB. The search returned a list of each thread I’ve ever posted in, much the same to the list of threads you see when you first log into the board. I just looked down the list, which says who posted to the thread last, and looked for my name. Took about 20 minutes to count them all, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-likely-to-kill-a-thread-goes-to/363633/32 "2006-07-12T07:10:50Z")
I’m pretty high up. Don’t consider myself #1. I’m more like the guy who delivers the first crippling blow to a thread before some drive-by poster finishes it off. Likewise, if anyone kept an objective count of threads that were lively for a few days and then fell completely dead, I’d probably at least make the podium. ---
**Author:** ![cerberus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cerberus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cerberus)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-likely-to-kill-a-thread-goes-to/363633/33 "2006-07-12T07:38:08Z")
When this thread dies, it will rise from the dead and eat brains. We really need a zombie emoticon. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-likely-to-kill-a-thread-goes-to/363633/34 "2006-07-12T13:56:57Z")
[QUOTE=Rufus Xavier] 155 “stillborns” last month alone, remember. Here is a sampling of the thread titles : [/QUOTE] What would be really sad is a thread that didn’t even get any **views**. I can’t imagine that! I have two stillborns, one with 31 views and one with 34. Pretty sad!! ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-likely-to-kill-a-thread-goes-to/363633/35 "2006-07-12T14:00:28Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] What would be really sad is a thread that didn’t even get any **views**. I can’t imagine that! I have two stillborns, one with 31 views and one with 34. Pretty sad!! [/QUOTE] Yes, a stillborn with views is better than a stillborn without views. What I wonder about is stillborns with 100 or more views. How could that many people look in in a thread and not be moved to comment? ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-likely-to-kill-a-thread-goes-to/363633/36 "2006-07-12T14:45:55Z")
[QUOTE=Rufus Xavier] Yes, a stillborn with views is better than a stillborn without views. What I wonder about is stillborns with 100 or more views. How could that many people look in in a thread and not be moved to comment? [/QUOTE] [Need I say more?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=265465&highlight=france) Moved to comment? The only movements that one gathered were due to gutteral clenching. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-likely-to-kill-a-thread-goes-to/363633/37 "2006-07-12T15:13:35Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] What would be really sad is a thread that didn’t even get any **views**. I can’t imagine that! I have two stillborns, one with 31 views and one with 34. Pretty sad!! [/QUOTE] The way to get to the Unviewed Stillborn would be to devise a thread title that would have the feature of being too dull or too insipid for people to want even to look at the OP. That would be some right clever titling, I suggest. Potential candidates: My grandmother’s lockjaw finally did her in Pictures of my lawn growing Clever names for my roach Was Al Capp really the Anti-Christ? Let’s see who can hold their breath the longest… Other candidates? ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-likely-to-kill-a-thread-goes-to/363633/38 "2006-07-12T15:24:57Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Let’s see who can hold their breath the longest… [/QUOTE] If anyone cares to actually start this thread, I just clocked in at 24 seconds (closed mouth, pinched nose). ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-likely-to-kill-a-thread-goes-to/363633/39 "2006-07-12T15:25:51Z")
**Earthling** did some stats [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=259417&highlight=statistics) for 2003/2004. Post 17 has a list of threadkillers for that time period. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-likely-to-kill-a-thread-goes-to/363633/40 "2006-07-12T15:32:19Z")
[QUOTE=kinoons] I decided that this award needs to be handed out. Who on this board is most likely to end a threads life? Naturally, We’ll exclude the mods from this one, who can always have the last word, if they want it. A search for all posts by my user names comes up with 750 theads. Out of those 750 , 125 of them have me as the final poster. So it would seem that 1 out of every 6 threads I post to will fade into the abyss with my insight (cough cough) as the final thoughts. Or maybe it should be kills vs. post count. That has me at 125 kills to 1650 posts. Thats about one kill per 13 posts. So lets see, who is most likely to kill off a thread? [/QUOTE] You might be looking at this wrong. Killing threads with one sixth of your posts is an impressive feat but for shear volume you would think **Guin** or \*\*Lib \*\* has probably ended the most. If you want to go with average number of final posts per week, it would have to be a user like \*\*LOUNE, Guin, Marley23, Silenus, Oakminster \*\* or myself who have very high post per day counts. (Sorry for those I left off). Jim [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-likely-to-kill-a-thread-goes-to/363633.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-likely-to-kill-a-thread-goes-to/363633.md?page=3)