I’m not speaking of trolls, rants or deliberate attempts to stop a thread.
But in the course of “normal” thread response, what are the odds your post will end the thread?
What would be a high percentage of Thread Killers?
In the last 6 months I have posted on 58 threads, and 9 of them stopped with my post. This works out to 15%, (appox.), of the threads ending when I post.
Is this a high or low percent?
If no one posts to this, have I killed my own thread?
I don’t think so.
It’s happened to me a few times. In a case like that I always try to think of it as having the last word 
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It happens to me. I feel like I walked in on a conversation and after saying something, everyone has turned around and walked out the room, or maybe pretended they didn’t hear me.
Are you kidding me?! I’m starting to get a freaking complex about killing threads. I did it twice yesterday alone! Here and (heavy sigh) here.
I did a search on my user name one time and noticed that I was the last poster on 5 out of 7 threads! I’m usually not that deadly, but my lethality qotient is a lot higher than yours.
Threads I begin never seem to take seed. The only one I’ve ever had more than 4 or 5 reponses to was a GQ that I had to kill because my question was answered quickly. The shame…
I’ve killed a few. I look upon it as my finishing post being so blindingly brilliant that others are afraid to make themselves look mediocre in comparison. Or. They fell asleep reading it.
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Infrequently follow up on posts, so don’t really know. Probably have killed some. I know I started some with zero posts by others. So what!
I’ve started a thread that got two responses from other people (and one was from bibliophage, who left a message saying that he had moved the thread to IMHO from GQ). I thought, “Well, OK, the thread title was ‘WiFi Card’, so maybe it was just that the title sucked.” So I started a thread called something to the effect of “What WiFi card should I get?” and got no responses. Sheesh.
I don’t follow up that often on threads I post to, so I don’t really know how guilty I am of threadicide, although I’ve probably killed a couple.
I’m almost afraid to post this, lest it kill this thread…
What? me kill thread? Thats unpossilble!!
Very high. I often kill threads.
25 statues of Hitler… Made of sugar.
You could take a random sample of dead threads and calculate the average length of the threads, and the odds of your ending a thread would be one divided by that number.
Or you could just average the number of posts in the 58 threads you counted; if it is 6.66… (1/0.15), then you are perfectly average. If it is higher, it means you have a higher tendency to kill threads; if lower, the opposite.
Of course, if you’re using the former method, you would have to skip the threads with zero replies.
You could use a similar method to determine the odds your thread will get zero responses: count the number of threads in a sample of dead threads, and then divide that by the total number of threads.
That should be, “count the number of threads with zero responses in a sample of dead threads, and then divide that by the total number of threads.”
No more posts. I promise.
Ah, they’re 1920s-style “death posts.”
I’ve lost count on the number of threads I’ve killed. Any experienced doper, no matter how profound he or she may be, will have a few thread-kills under his belt. When it happens to me it makes me feel like I showed up late for the party and everyone’s getting ready to leave.
And then I’ve had a few threads I’ve started that never got any responses in the first place.
I am glad to note that I am not the only one that feels like the ‘geek-in-the-corner.’
Maybe we should start a “thread killers” support group.