# Useless SDMB Statistics (and long, too)

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**Created:** [June 2, 2004, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-sdmb-statistics-and-long-too/248279 "2004-06-02T16:42:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Earthling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/90db22/32.png) [@Earthling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthling)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2004, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-sdmb-statistics-and-long-too/248279/17 "2004-06-09T20:24:42Z")

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The Top 10 threadkillers for the last year, in absolute numbers:

```auto

 1. bibliophage 454 threads ended
 2. Czarcasm 413
 3. DrMatrix 375
 4. Q.E.D. 287
 5. Cajun Man 283
 6. handy 268
 7. Mangetout 260
 8. Lynn Bodoni 254
 9. Exapno Mapcase 229
10. AskNott 219

```

It is no surprise that mods and admins have finished off the most threads, so let’s re-sort the list with members only:

```auto

 1. Q.E.D. 287
 2. handy 268
 3. Mangetout 260
 4. Exapno Mapcase 229
 5. AskNott 219
 6. rjung 211
 7. Chronos 207
 8. NoClueBoy 196
 9. GMRyujin 192
10. Otto 186

```

In terms of threadkilling efficiency, which is defined as the number of threads killed in relation to the total number of posts made, the highest numbers belong to users with the lowest post-counts – which makes sense, if one thinks about it. However, because of estimation errors (I did not get an exact count of the number of posts each user made over the last year), strange results (e.g., _E_[sub]TK[/sub] \> 1 – oh yeah, this is looking so scientific now!) show up with these users, so we’ll artificially limit the calculations to only those who have made at least 100 posts last year:

```auto

 1. Cajun Man 0.73 threads killed per post made
 2. DrMatrix 0.58
 3. KP 0.47
 4. audilover 0.38
 5. TJdude825 0.38
 6. moriah 0.35
 7. xash 0.35
 8. AskNott 0.34
 9. Czarcasm 0.33
10. bbeaty 0.31

```

Once again, we re-sort with members only:

```auto

 1. KP 0.47
 2. audilover 0.38
 3. TJdude825 0.38
 4. moriah 0.35
 5. AskNott 0.34
 6. bbeaty 0.31
 7. bonzer 0.26
 8. scotandrsn 0.25
 9. Rick 0.24
10. FriarTed 0.23

```

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