# Being the last poster of a thread and then it dies **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 11, 2018, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751 "2018-07-11T21:02:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hi\_Neighbor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hi_neighbor/32/494_2.png) [@Hi\_Neighbor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hi_Neighbor)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/1 "2018-07-11T21:02:01Z")
Have you ever stumbled upon a thread that was like five pages long with lots of recent activity, then you decide to chime in, and then the thread just dies? And you think, “Uh, was it something I said?” And no one speaks in the thread ever again. Doesn’t that leave you with a weird feeling? It does to me. Anyways, just wanted to share this. It’s happened to me and I always wondered what everyone else thought about that. Or if it’s something people think about at all. Deep down it makes me feel sad. Like, I didn’t do enough to keep things going. Oh well. _sighs_ ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/2 "2018-07-11T21:15:37Z")
Doesn’t bother me; usually the conversation has run its course by the time I get there (an hour or two later), so I just make a comment of some sort and move on. Some perverse part of me enjoys it: “Look, Martha, I’ve killed another one!” Then I stamp the side of my computer–like WWII fighter planes in some old flick–and see what other mischief I can get into. ---
**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/3 "2018-07-11T21:21:04Z")
Dammit **burpo** , if no one answered this thread it would’ve really blown her mind! mc ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/4 "2018-07-11T21:24:38Z")
Dammit, indeed! I’m a bad mutt. :o ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/5 "2018-07-11T21:25:15Z")
Ah, well. I have chimed in now. It can die.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/6 "2018-07-11T21:53:36Z")
I think someone should come up with a term for people who kills threads just by posting to them. Maybe “Thread killer”?[/deadpan] ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/7 "2018-07-11T21:58:05Z")
OP: you have the wrong attitude. Instead realize that your post was the definitive statement that no one could possibly disagree with. ---
**Author:** ![Newtosite](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/newtosite/32/8623_2.png) [@Newtosite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Newtosite)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/8 "2018-07-11T22:21:03Z")
I’m guilty of killing several threads. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/9 "2018-07-11T22:22:37Z")
I’ll try to kill this one. Do not reply. ---
**Author:** ![Hi\_Neighbor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hi_neighbor/32/494_2.png) [@Hi\_Neighbor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hi_Neighbor)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/10 "2018-07-11T22:28:03Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > I’ll try to kill this one. Do not reply. Step aside. I want the honor. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/11 "2018-07-11T23:01:26Z")
I have killed thousands of threads with a single word. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/12 "2018-07-11T23:01:59Z")
IT WAS YOU!?!? Yeah, I kinda get the same feeling, like I am a johnny-come-lately to the party. I dread having my username be the last one appearing in the Forum view for that thread. It will be there forever. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/13 "2018-07-11T23:05:48Z")
Dammit. Someone else post!!! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/14 "2018-07-11T23:43:18Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Dammit, indeed! I’m a bad mutt. :o I’ve got a rolled-up newspaper with your name on it, **burp**. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/15 "2018-07-12T00:04:08Z")
I’ve killed more threads than Cecil B. DeMille ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/16 "2018-07-12T00:07:43Z")
The pulse is getting thread-y. Adrenalin STAT! ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/17 "2018-07-12T00:30:38Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > I have killed thousands of threads with a single word. > > 😃 Word ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/18 "2018-07-12T00:31:48Z")
I like to think that its because my post was so profound, no further posts are necessary. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/19 "2018-07-12T00:44:58Z")
Until I come along. ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/20 "2018-07-12T00:57:41Z")
This has happened to me quite a bit. I think it’s because I don’t spend a lot of time here (not as much as some of you, anyway), and by the time I notice a thread it has usually run its course. Gee, I hope somebody adds a post after this one. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751.md?page=2)