As of just before hitting the submit button, the vBulletin software tells me I have posted in a grand total of 288 threads. In 25 of them, or 8.7%, I was the last poster (this includes 3 OPs that got no responses). Who can beat me?
(For you folks with thousands upon thousands of posts, maybe just count up the last 200 or so?)
Shark my boy (girl, delete whichever one is inappropriate), you have 204 threads posted to in the last 10 years, of which I count 8 that died with your sparking wisdom on their lips, for a mere 3.9%. Your toxicity is much overrated.
Okay. Thanks. I assumed you had found some hidden feature that provided this sort of thing straightaway. I have done similar searches but just never all the counting and arithmetic and such.
I do know I can’t see all 9,276 posts in one pass, so I have to finagle the searches to go at them from both ends.
Your statement got me all excited!
I have a goodly number of killed threads to my credit, but I doubt I’m a heavy competitor.
Quasi, baby, 750 threads in the last 10 years: I only counted the first 10 pages (=250 threads), and therein I found 49 threadkillers, for an amazing 19.6%!
I believe that 750 is just the most you can get back in one search. In my case that’s only about halfway back to the beginning for me. That’s why I said I have to go at my data from both ends to be sure to get it all. Others may have to be even more creative.
If the OP is a question involving a fact or some issue that can be “settled” then I agree with you.
Otherwise, it’s the case out outlasting the others posting or of having a punchline that can’t be topped.
There’s probably an upper limit to the fact/settling type of thread in the 5-20 posts range (arbitrarily selected to make the point) but the other type can be anywhere from 1 (0 in the case of the truly boring or puzzling OP) to thousands.
Discounting the threads that get killed (locked) by a mod, there ought to be a minimum and maximum number of posts before Killer can be declared.
I’ll propose minimum of 5, maximum of 100. Under 5 and you solved or settled the issue. Over 100 you just outlasted. In between you killed.