# Started more threads than the number of posts you made?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/started-more-threads-than-the-number-of-posts-you-made/956064
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**Created:** [December 14, 2021, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/started-more-threads-than-the-number-of-posts-you-made/956064 "2021-12-14T18:09:22Z")
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### Author: ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2021, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/started-more-threads-than-the-number-of-posts-you-made/956064/1 "2021-12-14T18:09:22Z")

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I was just looking at the data for cheesedonkey (because of a bumped thread) and he made 225 posts, but started 265 threads? So my question is: Huh?

> **[CheeseDonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cheesedonkey)**

How—board statistically—does someone make fewer posts than their number of threads?

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### Author: ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2021, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/started-more-threads-than-the-number-of-posts-you-made/956064/2 "2021-12-14T20:55:26Z")

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265 threads started, 225 replies to existing threads.

Discourse doesn’t count threads started as “posts” on your profile.