I’m not a prolific poster. I was searching for something today and noticed that I had posted to only 129 threads in the last year, but, of those 129 threads I was the last poster in 15. A thread kill ratio of 11.63%!
Is this good, or do I need to try harder to get my thread kill scores up to the SDMB average? 
I’ve never been great at searching out and reading directions. how does one go about finding out how many thread one has murdered or at least maimed?
It’s not so much the killing of threads that I mind. It’s the way I’ll post a great and witty reply, only to be ignored.
[sub]They are too witty…Damnit[/sub]
[jumping up and down, pointing to self]ME TOO![/jumping]
261 threads, 23 confirmed kills. That works out to an 8.8% kill rate (which, of course, will be higher once I send this one to the grave :)).
As for figuring out this info, picunurse, run a search on your username. That’ll give you your total threads. One of the listed columns is the name of the last poster. Count them up, and do the math to figure our your kill rate.
Of course, there may be an easier way. If so, please share.
Bah, I’ve got nothing but free time, Hal. I’ll be watching. 
Yeah, that one’s still up in the air, bub.
Bring it on!
mwahahahahahaha.
gotta go figure out my kill percentile
118 threads, 21 confirmed kills, = 17.80%.
Woo hoo! Let’s hit 20%.
In the last year, 29 out of 242, for 11.98%. Only 10% overall, though.
Well, let’s see, I’ve always been kinda sensitive to being a threadkiller, so I did the search and found out that I’ve posted to over 1000 threads.
The first 500 threads I posted to, I averaged a kill ratio of 13.6%.
The last 500 threads I posted to, I killed 10.2%.
Note that searches only return the first 500 results and I sorted by date in both increasing and decreasing order to get the first and last 500 threads. So the average is somewhere in between, and probably a little higher than the average of 11.9%.
I also checked the cases where I killed my own thread… as in, starting threads that get zero replies. I’ve started 40 threads, and of those, four have gotten no replies. That’s a still-birth ratio of 10%.
So what makes for a real threadkiller? Definitive posts like this? Or cricket-chirpers like this one?