# Call me ThreadKiller(TM)! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 31, 2007, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800 "2007-07-31T10:16:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2007, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800/1 "2007-07-31T10:16:21Z")
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. ---
**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 31, 2007, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800/2 "2007-07-31T10:42:59Z")
You are not. ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Ryle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8dc957/32.png) [@Mark\_Ryle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Ryle)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2007, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800/3 "2007-07-31T11:18:12Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2007, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800/4 "2007-07-31T12:07:17Z")
I wondered if I was _Forum_Killer 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_. ---
**Author:** ![aerodave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f08c70/32.png) [@aerodave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aerodave)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2007, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800/5 "2007-07-31T12:08:38Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2007, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800/6 "2007-07-31T12:26:02Z")
[QUOTE=An Gadaí] 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. [/QUOTE] That sounds like a challenge. Try posting in this week’s MMP, and see what happens. ---
**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 31, 2007, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800/7 "2007-07-31T14:02:53Z")
If like to see actual stays, if at all possible. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2007, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800/8 "2007-07-31T14:14:39Z")
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. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2007, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800/9 "2007-07-31T14:17:24Z")
What’s MMP? ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2007, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800/10 "2007-07-31T14:21:00Z")
[QUOTE=An Gadaí] What’s MMP? [/QUOTE] [Just _TRY_ to kill this thread. I double-dog dare you.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=430747) ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Ryle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8dc957/32.png) [@Mark\_Ryle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Ryle)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2007, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800/11 "2007-07-31T15:33:53Z")
[MMP](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=320298) > [@](#): > > Monday Morning Post. One of our posters used to do a rambling thread every Monday morning. I don’t know why he or she isn’t doing them anymore, but others have been stepping up to continue the tradition. Sometimes “Guest MMP” or “Member MMP” I don’t know where to find one though. ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Ryle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8dc957/32.png) [@Mark\_Ryle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Ryle)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2007, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800/12 "2007-07-31T15:48:19Z")
[QUOTE=Mark Ryle] I don’t know where to find one though. [/QUOTE] I see – [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=430747) is it. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2007, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800/13 "2007-07-31T15:57:26Z")
[QUOTE=Mark Ryle] I see – [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=430747) is it. [/QUOTE] And you couldn’t follow the link in the post immediately before your first? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Ryle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8dc957/32.png) [@Mark\_Ryle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Ryle)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2007, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800/14 "2007-07-31T16:05:40Z")
[QUOTE=VunderBob] And you couldn’t follow the link in the post immediately before your first? :dubious: [/QUOTE] I could and did – just after I posted. I’m a little slow. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2007, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800/15 "2007-07-31T16:46:37Z")
[QUOTE=VunderBob] [Just _TRY_ to kill this thread. I double-dog dare you.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=430747) [/QUOTE] I’m scared. ---
**Author:** ![some\_white\_dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@some\_white\_dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/some_white_dude)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2007, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800/16 "2007-07-31T17:01:36Z")
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](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=430896). :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2007, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800/17 "2007-07-31T17:03:50Z")
[QUOTE=Team of Scientists] I think that whoever manages to kill a thread about killing threads should win a lot of points. [/QUOTE] I could probably muster up some TMI left in my reserves. Does getting the thread locked count as killing it? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2007, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800/18 "2007-07-31T17:16:05Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![some\_white\_dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@some\_white\_dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/some_white_dude)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2007, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800/19 "2007-07-31T17:23:53Z")
[QUOTE=Autolycus] I could probably muster up some TMI left in my reserves. [/QUOTE] Just be careful not to get it in your eye. ---
**Author:** ![Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/48db29/32.png) [@Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Key_Lime_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2007, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800/20 "2007-07-31T17:25:55Z")
It would have been funny if nobody had replied to the OP. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800.md?page=2)