# Was it something I said?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-something-i-said/7256
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [February 14, 2000, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-something-i-said/7256 "2000-02-14T20:02:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Cap\_n\_Crude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cap_n_Crude)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2000, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-something-i-said/7256/1 "2000-02-14T20:02:00Z")
I’ve noticed a disturbing trend here at SDMB, and I must pose a question to the members. Whenever I post a new topic, or add my input to an existing thread, it is overwhelmingly likely that said topic will die a quick and quiet death.
My question, then, is WHY? Are my topics boring? Are my posts so full of wisdom (or some other substance) that nobody feels the need to continue discussion? Your ideas are welcome – I just hope this doesn’t mutate into a Great Debate, my ego could never stand the strain.
Cap’n Thred-Killa
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2000, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-something-i-said/7256/2 "2000-02-14T20:03:00Z")
Okay everybody, please don’t tell the Cap’n the truth.ssshhhhhh… 😉
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### Author:  [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2000, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-something-i-said/7256/3 "2000-02-14T20:07:00Z")
I have no idea. I just registered last night, so I can’t tell you anything. Sorry.
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“640K ought to be enough for anybody” - Bill Gates
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### Author:  [@fuzzy-wuzzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fuzzy-wuzzy)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2000, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-something-i-said/7256/4 "2000-02-14T20:11:00Z")
I’m not sure why…it may be the topic but I’m sure that it’s nothing personal
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“Do or do not, there is no try” - Yoda
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Senior Intern to
El Presidente
Self-Righteous Clique \*
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### Author:  [@Cap\_n\_Crude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cap_n_Crude)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2000, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-something-i-said/7256/5 "2000-02-14T21:19:00Z")
O’cakes, have I mentioned lately that you’re evil? 😛
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### Author:  [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2000, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-something-i-said/7256/6 "2000-02-14T21:23:00Z")
Happens to me, too. In Great Debates. A thread that’s gone a couple hundred posts, I throw in a comment, and boom, down the list it goes.
Is it cyberhalitosis, or what? ☹
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### Author:  [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2000, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-something-i-said/7256/7 "2000-02-14T21:23:00Z")
It’s probably because your screen name is so long that it causes all the data on very screen on which it appears to get scrunched up and look weird. Oh, wait, that’s some other guy…
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### Author:  [@frolix8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frolix8)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2000, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-something-i-said/7256/8 "2000-02-14T22:39:00Z")
I thought that only happened to me. Maybe your name puts them off. That and the bad breath. (That’s a Monty Python bit, not a personal reference)
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### Author:  [@funneefarmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/funneefarmer)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2000, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-something-i-said/7256/9 "2000-02-14T22:52:00Z")
Maybe it’s because your post was so authoritative that nothing else needed to be said.
Nah.
Maybe it’s because everything relevant had allready been said.
Nah.
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### Author:  [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2000, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-something-i-said/7256/10 "2000-02-15T00:57:00Z")
Cap’n, give me a case in point and I’ll psychoanalyze it and give you the low down with no punches pulled.
We’ll get you back into the swing of things or die trying.
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Recent polls revealed that some people have never been polled, until recently.
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### Author:  [@aseymayo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aseymayo)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2000, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-something-i-said/7256/11 "2000-02-15T01:05:00Z")
And I thought thread-killer was _my_ job.
Don’t worry about it, matey.
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It’s _Craw_, not _Craw_.
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### Author:  [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2000, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-something-i-said/7256/12 "2000-02-15T01:11:00Z")
_Everybody_ has a bout of thread kill every now and then. I’ve sunk quite a few.
Keep posting.
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### Author:  [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2000, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-something-i-said/7256/13 "2000-02-15T01:22:00Z")
This is as good a place as any to determine whether you are in fact a thread-killer.
_Last person to post to this thread is a thread-killer!_
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### Author:  [@Oblio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oblio)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2000, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-something-i-said/7256/14 "2000-02-15T01:22:00Z")
Sinking this to the bottom (as usual).
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### Author:  [@Nu\_Vo\_Da\_Da](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nu_Vo_Da_Da)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2000, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-something-i-said/7256/15 "2000-02-15T02:07:00Z")
Hah! you wish…
(sigh, wannabe thread-killers…)
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### Author:  [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2000, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-something-i-said/7256/16 "2000-02-15T02:30:00Z")
At least I know I’m not the only thread killer. Almost as bad though is the post that no one seems to notice or comment on. {echo effect:} **HELLO!** HELLO! hello…
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### Author:  [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2000, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-something-i-said/7256/17 "2000-02-15T02:42:00Z")
I thought it was just me.
Is there any easy way to count how many times your post is the **last** one on a thread?
☹
Is it smileys? 😕
I hope not. 😃
Well if it is, 😛
Peace,
mangeorge
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I only know two things;
I know what I need to know
And
I know what I want to know
Mangeorge, 2000
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### Author:  [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2000, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-something-i-said/7256/18 "2000-02-15T03:05:00Z")
Much as I’d like to leave Mangeorge’s post at the end for awhile, confirming him as a possible thread-killer, it wouldn’t seem right. He’s seems like a decent sort.
Besides, couldn’t do that to a fellow King fan.
Now if someone will return the favor?
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### Author:  [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2000, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-something-i-said/7256/19 "2000-02-15T03:07:00Z")
OK, buy my drilling deal or I kill this thread!
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### Author:  [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2000, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-something-i-said/7256/20 "2000-02-15T03:10:00Z")
Must be cause you need to get the last word.
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