# Thread Murderer! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 31, 2003, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459 "2003-03-31T15:46:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![if\_you\_don\_t\_know\_i\_won\_t\_tell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/fbc32d/32.png) [@if\_you\_don\_t\_know\_i\_won\_t\_tell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if_you_don_t_know_i_won_t_tell)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459/1 "2003-03-31T15:46:48Z")
I’m relatively new to the Straightdope… but I appear to be killing threads at un unnerving rate! Anyone have any suggestions of how not to kill threads? I’m friendly, so I don’t know why it happens. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459/2 "2003-03-31T17:05:43Z")
I’m having to fight my evil-bastard sense of humor, which tells me, “Let it sink! That would be _hilarious_!” Don’t sweat it. It happens a lot. Every thread will have a last post (though that one about “if so-and-so wrote Lord of the Rings” appears to be asymptotically approaching infinity), and sometimes it’s yours. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459/3 "2003-03-31T17:43:14Z")
> [@](#): > > Anyone have any suggestions of how not to kill threads? Don’t post to 'em? But I suppose that ain’t really the _best_ option, is it? ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459/4 "2003-03-31T18:30:33Z")
I still kill threads… quite often… I blame it on the weather. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459/5 "2003-03-31T18:35:29Z")
Dude, it’s, like, you can’t step into the same thread twice, man. Would the thread have died if you hadn’t posted? ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459/6 "2003-03-31T18:35:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by UncleBeer \* > \*\*Don’t post to 'em? But I suppose that ain’t really the _best_ option, is it? \*\* Hell, I _don’t_ post to them, and they still die. Personally, I think I may be the Thread Angel of Death so wrapped up in a clever human disguise that I don’t even recognize myself. Or, better, I’m just bored at work and am making this up. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459/7 "2003-03-31T18:42:52Z")
Do you answer the questions asked so definativley there’s nothing else to say? If not, I’d check out the time stamps - if a few posters are discussing something, and then go to bed, and then you have something to add, it’s entirely possible no-one is watching the thread much any more. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459/8 "2003-03-31T18:55:07Z")
Don’t sweat it. When I first started posting here, I thought that I was reaching serial murderer status. But it was just because I was new, and I wanted to know that I was (a) contributing and (b) not being ignored. Just because your postcount is low doesn’t mean that people notice it and decide not to respond. Could be a vast number of things - you’ve said something someone else has, the conversation has ended or the people involved went to bed, you gave the final piece of needed information and nothing else is needed, bad timing, etc. Also, as a newbie, I realized that I tended to post a lot near the end of threads, after I had gotten a good feel for what was going on in that particular conversation. At that point, the thread is already winding down to a close. As the months progress, you may find yourself starting, or posting closer to the beginning of threads, which will decrease the times you’re killing a thread. You’re doing fine. Don’t worry too much about pleasing us, worry about pleasing yourself. We don’t want you to be your perception of what we want you to be, we want you to be your perception of what you want to be\*. [sub][sup]\*[/sup]Flowchart and pictorial of this paragraph available upon request.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Siegfried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@Siegfried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siegfried)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459/9 "2003-03-31T19:39:02Z")
I know I’ve been killing my share of threads since I started here. I attribute it to the stunning awe I inspire in my fellow Doper when I follow every post with an interpretive dance of the current US budget crisis and its effects on my cat. It’s either that or I never seem to realize that my fly is down. Roommate must be putting DDT in my Dr Pepper again. ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459/10 "2003-03-31T19:58:17Z")
I am a thread-killer too. In fact, I will probably even kill this one… _crickets_ ---
**Author:** ![if\_you\_don\_t\_know\_i\_won\_t\_tell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/fbc32d/32.png) [@if\_you\_don\_t\_know\_i\_won\_t\_tell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if_you_don_t_know_i_won_t_tell)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459/11 "2003-03-31T20:15:54Z")
You guys are great… I try to post at the beginning of threads, and maybe it is just my imagination. I’m considering your suggestion, oh dear Moderator. But I have such funny and cute ideas, I can’t imagine letting the Straightdope not have access to them. ---
**Author:** ![Searching\_For\_Truth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Searching\_For\_Truth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Searching_For_Truth)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459/12 "2003-03-31T22:20:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by if you don’t know i won’t tell \* > \*\*But I have such funny and cute ideas, I can’t imagine letting the Straightdope not have access to them. \*\* Neither can we! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459/13 "2003-04-01T00:41:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Siegfried \* > **I’ve been killing my share of threads since I started here.** There’s a joke in your username here somewhere… ---
**Author:** ![Davebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Davebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebear)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459/14 "2003-04-01T01:14:39Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Munch \* > \*\*[sub][sup]_[/sup]Flowchart and pictorial of this paragraph available upon request.[/sub] \*\* Can I get a copy of that flowchart? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459/15 "2003-04-01T01:28:02Z")
As a Veteran Threadkiller ™, the best way to stab one in the heart is to hijack the OP and blather on about yourself as if it had \*deep \* and _personal_ relevance, of which, it does not. It never will. But it’s ok, threadkilling is not illegal. It’s a form of community service for some of us. ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459/16 "2003-04-01T02:30:15Z")
There are some threads that need to be put out of their misery anyway… you know the type, destined to become trainwrecks from the start and leave nobody’s reputation unscathed. (Not that that’s always a bad thing – hell, look at the TMI thread!) ---
**Author:** ![if\_you\_don\_t\_know\_i\_won\_t\_tell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/fbc32d/32.png) [@if\_you\_don\_t\_know\_i\_won\_t\_tell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if_you_don_t_know_i_won_t_tell)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459/17 "2003-04-01T02:39:58Z")
Porous cow !!! :eek: 4841 posts!!! :o you must be joking, noone can live at that speed. (you must be quite a dope) ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459/18 "2003-04-01T03:03:52Z")
I have killed threads. Too many to count. Don’t let it get to you, it happens. [sub]goldurned newbies!![/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459/19 "2003-04-01T05:33:08Z")
Yes, but [What’s your TKP (Thread Kill Percentage)?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=144366) ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459/20 "2003-04-01T06:16:16Z")
I’ve killed a lot of threads in my day. Sometime, when the board isn’t performing so poorly, run a search on my name and go back to the beginning of my posting history… you’ll see my name as the last poster to a quite large amount of threads. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459.md?page=2)