# What is your current kill rate? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 18, 2014, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-current-kill-rate/686417 "2014-04-18T13:46:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-current-kill-rate/686417/1 "2014-04-18T13:46:26Z")
I searched for threads to which I had posted over the last 3 days and noticed that my SN is the last post in 2 of them. That gives me a current thread kill rate of 18.2%. This is not meant to be a contest, just something mundane, pointless, and shared. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-current-kill-rate/686417/2 "2014-04-18T13:51:03Z")
Don’t look at it as killing a thread. See it as the completion of a thread; the addition of that final piece of info that requires no further discussion. I have. ---
**Author:** ![Vita\_Beata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@Vita\_Beata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vita_Beata)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-current-kill-rate/686417/3 "2014-04-18T14:32:03Z")
Yes, Bobot has the right attitude on this topic. Final posts have satisfied all hungry curiosity, and paved the way to intelligence, peace, and prosperity on this board. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rattle\_and\_Hum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Rattle\_and\_Hum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rattle_and_Hum)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-current-kill-rate/686417/4 "2014-04-18T19:42:32Z")
Would rather not risk increasing mine so I won’t post it in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-current-kill-rate/686417/5 "2014-04-18T19:51:03Z")
What would have been great if absolutely no one had responded to this thread. 😛 But, now I risk being the final post, so there ya go. On a serious note, I have been the final post a number of times, and i as well tell myself it’s because I did such a great job of presenting final arguments, that there is nothing left to say. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-current-kill-rate/686417/6 "2014-04-18T20:23:00Z")
I seem to kill a lot, too. I thought maybe my sense of humor wasn’t coming across so I’ve tried to dial it back, but it’s pretty much anything I post. Maybe I’m just good at it. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-current-kill-rate/686417/7 "2014-04-18T21:11:11Z")
Wait, they’re dead? **Cecil** told me they just sent those threads to a server farm upstate? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2014, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-current-kill-rate/686417/8 "2014-04-19T04:21:56Z")
I don’t know about my kill rate, but it’s not unusual for people to not refer to my posts, like I’m invisible. ---
**Author:** ![emcee2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emcee2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emcee2k)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2014, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-current-kill-rate/686417/9 "2014-04-19T04:32:21Z")
Did you guys hear something? ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2014, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-current-kill-rate/686417/10 "2014-04-19T06:14:48Z")
According to search results, five out of the last 200 threads I’ve posted to, so about 2.5%. I think that’s an improvement. > [@panache45](#): > > I don’t know about my kill rate, but it’s not unusual for people to not refer to my posts, like I’m invisible. Aye, same here…I can’t be sure if that means I’m just that cogent and insightful that no further comment is necessary, or just so annoyingly, clownishly irrelevant so as to be beneath dignifying with a response. Or that I’ve accidentally just pissed enough people off, somehow, that I’m on a bunch of “Ignore” lists. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-current-kill-rate/686417/11 "2014-04-23T05:39:39Z")
Boom! Headshot. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-current-kill-rate/686417/12 "2014-04-23T07:57:32Z")
😛 I’d thought about posting after you but then I forgot. Two or three weeks ago I started a thread that got exactly zero replies. People interpreting their belly button lint are more interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Whiskey\_Dickens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9fc348/32.png) [@Whiskey\_Dickens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whiskey_Dickens)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-current-kill-rate/686417/13 "2014-04-23T15:52:22Z")
Just under 13% kill rate! Not too bad. ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-current-kill-rate/686417/14 "2014-04-23T19:28:51Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > Boom! Headshot. [Here’s](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=716947) my best kill shot. First reply; thread’s over. One shot; one kill. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-current-kill-rate/686417/15 "2014-04-23T19:39:03Z")
My kill rate is nearly 30%, and that’s just for the threads I start and _no one_ replies to. I think I may have some kind of record. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-current-kill-rate/686417/16 "2014-04-23T19:52:00Z")
Today I was at zero kills over the last 3 days. Let’s see if this gets me back on the board. My fingers are registered as lethal weapons! ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-current-kill-rate/686417/17 "2014-04-25T13:36:18Z")
Just had to point out that over the last 3 days I have posted in 20 threads, with only one “kill” - this thread. Please don’t post and ruin my irony.