I seem to have a habit of murdering threads. Once I post in them they usually sink without a trace! Oh well. I just need to become a wittier, more astute, more contributory poster.
You are not.
It probably only seems that way, is not statistically true, and is really just some psychological ‘effect.’ I wonder if there is a name for it. It happens to me also – but I *know * it happens to me.
A conversation has a beginning, middle, end. It’s also a skill to end a conversation.
I wondered if I was ForumKiller for a while - I implied that I’d happily eat tortoise eggs and after that, nobody posted anything in GQ for what seemed like forever.
I used to do that. In fact, a long time back, someone posted some boards stats that they created from analyzing the database records. They put up a list ranking people by percentage of their posts which were the last posts in threads. I was second out of the whole board. I think the only person higher was a mod, who presumably locks a lot of threads. So I had evidence to back up my gut feeling.
It’s not like that any more. I used to give definitive answers in GQ that left little else open for discussion. Instead, I started saying shit in other forums that people couldn’t bear to let stand as the last word.
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I seem to have a habit of murdering threads. Once I post in them they usually sink without a trace! Oh well. I just need to become a wittier, more astute, more contributory poster.
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That sounds like a challenge. Try posting in this week’s MMP, and see what happens.
If like to see actual stays, if at all possible.
That’s one of the reasons I started playing in the Mafia games. Surely I couldn’t kill one of those threads.
But in Mafia, you don’t kill thread…thread kills you.
What’s MMP?
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What’s MMP?
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Just TRY to kill this thread. I double-dog dare you.
I don’t know where to find one though.
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I don’t know where to find one though.
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I see – this is it.
[QUOTE=Mark Ryle]
I see – this is it.
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And you couldn’t follow the link in the post immediately before your first? :dubious:
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And you couldn’t follow the link in the post immediately before your first? :dubious:
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I could and did – just after I posted. I’m a little slow.
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Just TRY to kill this thread. I double-dog dare you.
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I’m scared.
I think that whoever manages to kill a thread about killing threads should win a lot of points.
My problem is more with starting threads. I usually get just a meager handful of replies, and then it’s down into the murky depths. I try my best to stimulate the conversation, but it’s usually just not happening. And then there are those instances where I start a duplicate thread, sometimes even a month after the original. :smack:
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I think that whoever manages to kill a thread about killing threads should win a lot of points.
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I could probably muster up some TMI left in my reserves. Does getting the thread locked count as killing it? :smack:
This could be the thread that goes forever. As we all keep coming, hoping to post the last post and claim the title of Ultimate Thread Killer.
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I could probably muster up some TMI left in my reserves.
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Just be careful not to get it in your eye.
It would have been funny if nobody had replied to the OP.