# What's a "post party?" **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 10, 2006, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-post-party/383568 "2006-12-10T15:20:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sonia\_Montdore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Sonia\_Montdore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sonia_Montdore)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-post-party/383568/1 "2006-12-10T15:20:43Z")
What’s a “post party?” I see the phrase used in the Pit and occasionally elsewhere on the Board, but I don’t know what it means. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-post-party/383568/2 "2006-12-10T15:30:29Z")
It’s a thread devoted to celebrating a poster’s hitting a milestone such as 1000 or 5000 or 20,000 posts. It’s also a real waste of bandwidth and is frowned upon in these parts. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-post-party/383568/3 "2006-12-10T15:48:13Z")
I bet **Qadgop** posted that just to bring his total to a nice round 11,666. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sonia\_Montdore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Sonia\_Montdore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sonia_Montdore)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-post-party/383568/4 "2006-12-10T15:57:10Z")
Thanks!