# Thread-ending posts **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 29, 2001, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454 "2001-09-29T04:26:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454/21 "2001-10-01T16:19:24Z")
You know, the mods are going to kill us if this mutates into a thread-killing contest. 😃 [sub]And I’m the best anyway. Hell, I barely get noticed as it is. This fracking close to 3k posts…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Kaotic\_Newtral](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@Kaotic\_Newtral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaotic_Newtral)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454/22 "2001-10-01T16:26:11Z")
This couldn’t possibly turn into a ‘thread-killing’ contest. Nope, no way that could happen. 🙂 [sub]I am the assassin![/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Formerly\_Bandersnatch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e36b37/32.png) [@Formerly\_Bandersnatch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Formerly_Bandersnatch)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454/23 "2001-10-01T16:46:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kaotic Newtral \* > **This couldn’t possibly turn into a ‘thread-killing’ contest. > Nope, no way that could happen.** Somehow there’s something very paradoxical about a thread killing contest. ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454/24 "2001-10-01T17:05:12Z")
Yeah, let’s not turn this into another one of [these](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=53434). ---
**Author:** ![Kaotic\_Newtral](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@Kaotic\_Newtral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaotic_Newtral)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454/25 "2001-10-01T17:16:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Amp \* > \*\*Yeah, let’s not turn this into another one of [these](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=53434). \*\* That would be bad. Nice call **Amp**. Whew! I was worried for a minute that this one would go on and on…with people just chiming in with absolutely nothing to say. Not like me, I’ve got tons of cool stuff to talk about. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454/26 "2001-10-01T18:31:24Z")
Posting from the Uk might give me an advantage here… ---
**Author:** ![Mac\_Guffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@Mac\_Guffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mac_Guffin)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454/27 "2001-10-01T21:42:47Z")
I am the King of thread killers as evidenced by the above thread killing thread andd the one that came before it. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=36448&pagenumber=9](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=36448&pagenumber=9) I think we promised the mods we would never do such a thing again. It just eats bandwidth. ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454/28 "2001-10-01T22:29:25Z")
My posts thus far have been very near the end of a thread, if not the actual killer. Of course I blame myself. I am long-winded and tend to read a whole thread before I reply and address several posters in one reply. Or it could be because I prefer to get in on threads with a large number of posts in them because they often have a wider variety of posts/opinions in them. By the time I get around to reading a thread, everyone else has pretty much moved on. ☚ Steven ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454/29 "2001-10-01T22:30:23Z")
Just a quickie before turning in… ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454/30 "2001-10-01T23:00:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by glee \* > \*\*Just a quickie before turning in… \*\* What better way to end the day. mmm…quickie…mmmmmm 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454/31 "2001-10-01T23:06:10Z")
More seriously, there’s nothing worse than coming up with something relevant and find out everyone else has gone on to another topic. ---
**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:** [October 2, 2001, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454/32 "2001-10-02T12:04:41Z")
[sub]Stab, stab, stabbity, stab-stab-stab …[/sub] Oh? You’re back again? Well, in my professional thread-killing opinion – there’s been more threads killed by Mods that Josephine’s had hot dinners. Only they (and Admins!) can _close_ … [sub]Stab-Stab, Ow my thumb!, Stab, stab.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Skip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@Skip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skip)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454/33 "2001-10-02T13:19:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Venoma \* > Godwin’s Law? Correct you are! I consulted the Hacker Dictionary and the full law is… > [@](#): > > - > > “As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving > Nazis or Hitler approaches one.”\* > There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454/34 "2001-10-02T13:26:20Z")
**Skip** , you left off the last bit, the all-important codicil! _Also from the Hacker’s dictionary_ > [@](#): > > However there is also a widely-recognized codicil that any intentional triggering of Godwin’s Law in order to invoke its thread-ending effects will be unsuccessful. So simply saying Hitler or Nazi as an attempt to kill a thread doesn’t count. Fenris ---
**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454/35 "2001-10-02T14:55:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fenris \* > So simply saying Hitler or Nazi as an attempt to kill a thread doesn’t count. Sheesh, **Fenris** , speaking of Nazis— what kind of fascist, dogmatic assertion is that? ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454/36 "2001-10-02T15:02:24Z")
I’m awake now. ---
**Author:** ![daffodil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@daffodil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/daffodil)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454/37 "2001-10-02T15:06:33Z")
nice topic. ---
**Author:** ![Gartog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/22d042/32.png) [@Gartog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gartog)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454/38 "2001-10-02T15:16:16Z")
I have added my sig. to the bottom of this post. It’s the first time I’ve used it so far. It has been the same for a few months ---
**Author:** ![Gartog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/22d042/32.png) [@Gartog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gartog)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454/39 "2001-10-02T15:18:37Z")
Or not, it seems that previewing you post removes the tick from the show sig. box. With that said . . . . . ---
**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:** [October 2, 2001, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454/40 "2001-10-02T19:39:15Z")
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