Just in case anyone was wondering, a Google search of “pope” yielded as the first result the Wikipedia page for “pope”, which has a few paragraphs about papal selection, as well as a link to an article specifically about the subject. Hell, that involves fewer keystrokes than asking a GQ about it.
So, yeah, diggleblop is now on my personal list of posters whose threads I realize ahead of time are going to be useless.
Well, since ya brought it up, I checked mine. This should be post #1640, and I have started 38 threads since June, for a ratio of .02317073170 
Gotcha beat. This is my post #1850 with 21 threads started. My thread starts make up .0113513% of my total posts.
21/1850 = 1.135135%
Which pales beside my 0.923102% rating.
:: Checks figures ::
My thread-starting ratio is 0.0186287. 
Yes, he calls it Diggleblop’s Wager. 
I really think that he knows the answer. IMHO the questions are artfully designed to seem stupid, so he isn’t banned for trolling.
You’re right, I was gonna post that a different way and didn’t change everything. Not enough coffee yet I’m thinking…
(Upon reading the thread linked to by the OP)
How much you wanna bet that diggleblop is/was the kind of student who’d ask the teacher questions that he wouldn’t have needed to ask if he’d just paid attention in class and/or read the textbook?
I think that the evidence points strongly to the present tense.
You people who are always starting new threads can really clutter up this place. I think more folks should strive for my 0.0006724 rate, (especially if I get to pick who is doing the striving).
A couple things come to mind…
You’re a mod so yours doesn’t count. neener neener.
You’re totally right and there are people who really should try and be more like you.
You’re my hero, but I have a ways to go. 0.0083402835696413678065054211843203. This response, of course, doesn’t clutter up the place at all.
Can we make an unofficial rule that, after four months, a ratio of over 10% is grounds for [del]stoning[/del] banning.
I’ll work on it. I have 26 thread starts (.00331 rate); if I never start another I’ll equal yours after only 30,000 more posts.
The questions don’t merely *seem *stupid, they actually are stupid. And even when they are not completely idiotic, they are usually phrased so stupidly that they are almost unintelligible (leading to longer threads than are warranted as people try to figure out what he was asking). Furthermore, I seriously suspect diggleblop is too stupid to know what trolling is, even as he does it.
See, the problem with this is that that will just encourage the diggleblops of the world to starting posting more stupid shit in other people’s threads.
Chiming in here. I’ve often noticed him, and noticed other people complaining about bad OPs in GQ. it’s gotten to the point where I, and many others, are now second-guessing every OP we put in GQ. Yes, what we should do - but so should he!
Every time I read its name, I’m reminded of that song by Hanson, MMMBop .
0.11831442464
whew
The question is, have you closed more threads than you’ve started? You may be a net drain on the SDMB thread count!