# Searching for appropriate term **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 23, 2003, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching-for-appropriate-term/163492 "2003-03-23T03:34:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SouthernSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@SouthernSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SouthernSky)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching-for-appropriate-term/163492/1 "2003-03-23T03:34:53Z")
Does anyone know the term for when a newbie (such as myself) adds a comment to a thread which is so inane as to preclude any more discussion? I seem to remember seeing a name for it, but after 3 days of digging into my memory bank and coming up short, I thought I’d go to the pros. Disclaimer: It hasn’t happened to me yet, but it’s still early. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching-for-appropriate-term/163492/2 "2003-03-23T03:38:14Z")
Threadkiller? ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching-for-appropriate-term/163492/3 "2003-03-23T03:39:00Z")
Don’t know the “technical” term for it, but I surely have done it. I call it my “Silence…Sound of crickets” post. ---
**Author:** ![SouthernSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@SouthernSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SouthernSky)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching-for-appropriate-term/163492/4 "2003-03-23T03:49:02Z")
Yes! “Threadkiller”! Although I like Zoe’s, as well - could also use the old “one hand clapping”, depending on the general mood. Thanks, both. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching-for-appropriate-term/163492/5 "2003-03-23T04:06:28Z")
Hmm. I started threadkilling long before I _knew_ there was a term for it! 🙂 Welcome to the SDMB, BTW, **SouthernSky**. ---
**Author:** ![Phax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Phax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phax)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching-for-appropriate-term/163492/6 "2003-03-23T14:26:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ice Wolf \* > \*\*Hmm. I started threadkilling long before I _knew_ there was a term for it! 🙂 > > Welcome to the SDMB, BTW, **SouthernSky**. \*\* Hey **Ice Wolf!** This thread just kinda sat here for awhile, so I thought I’d add something here so your post didn’t become a self-fulfilling prophecy!😃 ---
**Author:** ![thelogicalnextbigthingis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@thelogicalnextbigthingis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelogicalnextbigthingis)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching-for-appropriate-term/163492/7 "2003-03-23T21:31:18Z")
The term is **Molosters** [MPSIMS \> Molosters](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=24126&highlight=molosters) ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching-for-appropriate-term/163492/8 "2003-03-24T00:41:30Z")
> [@](#): > > _Orig. by thelogicalnextbigthingis_ > The term is Molosters. No, I disagree. That would appear to be a term for those who seem to kill threads almost all the time. I think the term “threadkiller” is enough, IMHO. Besides, “molosters” at a glance looks like “molesters”, to which I’d go “Say _what?_” Just as “OP” can mean Opening Post or Opening Poster, acording to context, I think “threadkiller” covering both post and poster has a certain symmetry about it. ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching-for-appropriate-term/163492/9 "2003-03-24T01:23:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ice Wolf \* > Besides, “molosters” at a glance looks like “molesters”, to which I’d go “Say _what?_” Yes, whereas _threadkiller_ has no violent connotations whatsoever. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching-for-appropriate-term/163492/10 "2003-03-25T06:34:30Z")
Yeah, but that’s just killing, as opposed to molesting. I mean, it’s perfectly acceptable in polite society to talk about murder and killing and death, but just say “fuck” once and somebody has a hissyfit. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching-for-appropriate-term/163492/11 "2003-03-25T08:41:32Z")
Heh. Loved your comments, **Achernar** and **Irishman**. Just after a little less of the word confusion, is all. (Besides, part of my preference for “threadkiller” is that it’s just so … _deadly_ … ) 😃