# Scylla: the Single Thread Post Count King **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 1, 2003, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scylla-the-single-thread-post-count-king/145995 "2003-01-01T04:26:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![IzzyR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/2acd7d/32.png) [@IzzyR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IzzyR)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scylla-the-single-thread-post-count-king/145995/1 "2003-01-01T04:26:47Z")
I hereby introduce what is most likely an entirely new post-count statistic - most posts by one poster to a single thread. Never seen this dealt with before. And we already have a champion, that being our greatly beloved **Scylla** himself. You can see how this feat was accomplished in [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=152154) thread, but trust me - you don’t want to. But there is a nifty feature of the board - if you click on the # of replies icon, it gives the distribution of posts by poster (a useful feature actually, if you’re unsure if you want to read through a lengthy thread). And checking there, we see that Scylla has accumulated no less than 187 posts to that single thread - more than the entire post count of many respectable posters. By percentage it’s about 37% of the total posts, for a thread that reached 11 pages. Truly a magnificent accomplishment. (Disclosure: I don’t have any means of actually checking every other thread to know for certain that this is indeed the all-time record. But considering the maximum length of threads and the unique dynamics of that particular one, I cannot imagine that it was ever replicated). Congratulations, Scylla (& get some rest). 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scylla-the-single-thread-post-count-king/145995/2 "2003-01-01T05:47:11Z")
I dunno, [Ask Torgo!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=28605&highlight=torgo) features 29 of 52 replies belonging to Torgo, and including the OP that’s 30 of 53, for 56.6% of all posts in the thread. Osip had almost 20% of the posts [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=32346&highlight=stubbern), and Arden Ranger got just under 20% of the posts in this [marathon](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=52997&highlight=the+last+word) of a thread. Then we have Arden Ranger again claiming top billing with 26.5% of the posts [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=53225&highlight=sapphire+bullet), and … huh. The search engine isn’t able to locate sunb’s old Onion Headlines thread. Odd, that. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scylla-the-single-thread-post-count-king/145995/3 "2003-01-01T06:32:47Z")
I will now be totally obsessed with this little feature that I was unaware of until now. A hearty “thank you”, dripping with sarcasm, to you **IzzyR**. ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scylla-the-single-thread-post-count-king/145995/4 "2003-01-01T06:40:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by iampunha \* > \*\*and Arden Ranger got just under 20% of the posts in this [marathon](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=52997&highlight=the+last+word) of a thread. Then we have Arden Ranger again claiming top billing with 26.5% of the posts [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=53225&highlight=sapphire+bullet), \*\* :eek: :o Damn you, **'punha**. 😛 I would be perfectly happy if those two threads dropped off the face of the earth. In my defence, I plead a state of Newbiness. The Last Word thread was the day I registered. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scylla-the-single-thread-post-count-king/145995/5 "2003-01-01T06:59:59Z")
I just spent 5 minutes looking for a “# of replies icon” before I realized it was just the text link in the thread list. Sometimes I stun myself with my ability to overlook the obvious. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scylla-the-single-thread-post-count-king/145995/6 "2003-01-01T13:54:17Z")
That **is** impressive. Best I’ve ever done, I think, is 128 posts in [this Diplomacy thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=132768), with **Jonathan Chance** right behind with 121. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scylla-the-single-thread-post-count-king/145995/7 "2003-01-01T13:58:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by OpalCat \* > \*\*I just spent 5 minutes looking for a “# of replies icon” before I realized it was just the text link in the thread list. Sometimes I stun myself with my ability to overlook the obvious. \*\* The _really_ scary thing about that, **Opal** , is that you operate a board that runs on the exact same software! 😃