# What motivates these people who sign up just to post ONE post in a zombie thread? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 18, 2011, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-motivates-these-people-who-sign-up-just-to-post-one-post-in-a-zombie-thread/575192 "2011-03-18T20:25:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2011, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-motivates-these-people-who-sign-up-just-to-post-one-post-in-a-zombie-thread/575192/21 "2011-03-21T10:22:11Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > I don’t understand why all these people are actually joining the forum, signing up with usernames, just to make ONE post (often a ragged, poorly written post, at that) in an old-ass thread from six or seven years ago, and then NEVER post anything else again. > > What is the motivation for these people? > > I wish they’d stop. Do you have a particular post/poster in mind **Argent Towers**? I only ask because a zombie that I had posted to \*many \*years ago was resurrected last week (just the one post, ragged and poorly written etc etc) and I had a vague creepy feeling that it might have been a sockpuppet from more recent threads who had sought out my previous entries to give me a case of explosive diahorrea. Or not. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2011, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-motivates-these-people-who-sign-up-just-to-post-one-post-in-a-zombie-thread/575192/22 "2011-03-21T13:19:25Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > I have at times signed up for a forum to make one post and then fade away; usually some question on numismatics. “Numismatics”!? You just coined that word, didn’t you? ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2011, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-motivates-these-people-who-sign-up-just-to-post-one-post-in-a-zombie-thread/575192/23 "2011-03-21T14:22:58Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > And in some cases to justify goofing off at work when I’m tired of sorting Mercury Dimes. But I _have_ done it. aww, just label 'em all 1916-D MS 68 with full bands and knock off for lunch early, that’s my suggestion ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2011, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-motivates-these-people-who-sign-up-just-to-post-one-post-in-a-zombie-thread/575192/24 "2011-03-21T17:18:28Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > “Numismatics”!? You just coined that word, didn’t you? Someone’s being a little flippant today. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2011, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-motivates-these-people-who-sign-up-just-to-post-one-post-in-a-zombie-thread/575192/25 "2011-03-21T17:55:30Z")
It’s spelled pneumismatics. The art of holding your breath while diving for underwater treasure chests filled with pieces of eight. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2011, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-motivates-these-people-who-sign-up-just-to-post-one-post-in-a-zombie-thread/575192/26 "2011-03-21T18:11:52Z")
> [@ugly ripe tomato](#): > > aww, just label 'em all 1916-D MS 68 with full bands and knock off for lunch early, that’s my suggestion Or all 1940s vg and smelt. And how we always smelt right about now! 😃 > [@Sailboat](#): > > “Numismatics”!? You just coined that word, didn’t you? No ---- but my dad was part of coining the term “falery” and “falerist” \ for the collecting of small pin-backed items like your assorted Soviet sports and award pins. Its one of our clans claims to fame. > [@Scuba\_Ben](#): > > Someone’s being a little flippant today. Or we’re possible all being silly on porpoise ------- or something else a little fishy. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2011, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-motivates-these-people-who-sign-up-just-to-post-one-post-in-a-zombie-thread/575192/27 "2011-03-22T18:26:18Z")
I have a feeling that a lot of the people who find this board via Google think of it as more of a “Yahoo Answers” type place instead of a message board where people have conversations. These are the same people who post questions and never return to respond. They get their answer and they’re done. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-motivates-these-people-who-sign-up-just-to-post-one-post-in-a-zombie-thread/575192/28 "2011-03-23T12:26:21Z")
> [@dhkendall](#): > > My assumption has always been someone Googling a topic, an SDMB thread being first in the list (as it should be), and logged on to comment on it, not noticing the date. This is me on other boards. I’ve had to get hypervigilant about noticing the posting date because it’s just so tempting to make a comment when it’s about a topic I think I know something about. Also, if I were answering someone’s question for help, I would probably still do it, with the likely vain hope that they might see it If it requires any effort, though, I probably won’t go before 2007 or so. ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-motivates-these-people-who-sign-up-just-to-post-one-post-in-a-zombie-thread/575192/29 "2011-03-23T13:02:27Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > Or all 1940s vg and smelt. And how we always smelt right about now! 😃 Hey, you smelt it, you dealt it 😛 ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2014, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-motivates-these-people-who-sign-up-just-to-post-one-post-in-a-zombie-thread/575192/31 "2014-05-26T10:32:34Z")
Reported. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2014, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-motivates-these-people-who-sign-up-just-to-post-one-post-in-a-zombie-thread/575192/32 "2014-05-26T10:33:45Z")
Life imitates art… ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2014, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-motivates-these-people-who-sign-up-just-to-post-one-post-in-a-zombie-thread/575192/33 "2014-05-26T10:58:18Z")
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