# What's your TKP (thread-kill percentage)? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 15, 2002, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tkp-thread-kill-percentage/136939 "2002-11-15T22:09:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Daerlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Daerlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daerlyn)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tkp-thread-kill-percentage/136939/61 "2002-11-21T01:44:02Z")
14 out 171 = 8.8% ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tkp-thread-kill-percentage/136939/62 "2003-03-22T07:59:57Z")
18 of the last 100 for me…simple 18% kill ratio How 'bout some TKP’s for some of the mods. Cajun Man, Coldfire, UncleBeer, others…how many threads have you killed and what’s your % Surely y’all can beat these other so-called “thread-killer” wannabees. ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tkp-thread-kill-percentage/136939/63 "2003-03-22T10:48:22Z")
I’m not doing the math because I know for a fact this thread is going down now that I posted to it. If the SDMB had a geek table in the cafe,. I’m the one sitting at it alone. ---
**Author:** ![Lorenzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4da419/32.png) [@Lorenzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lorenzo)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tkp-thread-kill-percentage/136939/64 "2003-03-22T13:37:13Z")
18/368 = 4.9% during the last six months. 12/362 = 3.3% if you remove kills of my own threads. Below average but higher than I predicted. ---
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tkp-thread-kill-percentage/136939/65 "2003-03-22T14:29:40Z")
8 out of 181, TKP = 4.4% - I’m damn amazed at this I always felt like I was the thread plague and I could kill any thread just by looking at it. This boosts my ego! ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tkp-thread-kill-percentage/136939/66 "2003-03-22T16:12:07Z")
0 out of 23. That’s … um. If y’all will shut now, I can get on the board. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tkp-thread-kill-percentage/136939/67 "2003-03-22T18:23:52Z")
> [@](#): > > The archive only goes back to 09/1999. Not entirely true, but if you want to include your really old posts, you’ll have to search for something distinctively “you” aside from your username. (Most of the really old posts show no user name and “Guest” instead of “Member”, and won’t come up if you do vanity searches). If you used a signature back then, search for your sig. [My first post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=5251#post5251) – from 03/1999. (My standard sig back then was “Designated Optional Signature at Bottom of Post”) Oh, and to answer the question, I am runnning about 14% TKP (extrapolating from last 100 posts, too lazy to do a more exact count). ---
**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tkp-thread-kill-percentage/136939/68 "2003-03-22T20:16:02Z")
Total threads since registration: 122. Nr of kills on each consecutive page of threads: 3, 8, 3, 2,4 (losing my touch): total 20. This includes my self-killed [Donna Tartt thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=165347) (no replies, 13 views) and my reply, the only, to an [euthanasia thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=165568) (figures, doesn’t it?). That makes 16,39 %. Funny, I thought it would be higher. Guess I mainly remember my heydays as thread-killer, or threadkills leave a bigger impact than normal posts. BTW: you can knock off the competition by reopening the threads killed by them! That reminds me: this is a reopened thread which I believe is frowned upon by the Board administration. Now please get out of the way so I can kill this sucker… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/57b2e6/32.png) [@Quasimodal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodal)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tkp-thread-kill-percentage/136939/69 "2003-03-22T21:07:27Z")
**TTT** , I think some of us need the kill more than you. Observe: Since registering, I’ve slaughtered 17 out of 278 threads, giving me an embarassingly low TKP of 6.1%. However, in the last three months I’m at 7.2%. So at least I’m getting more mundane and pointless, not less. ---
**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tkp-thread-kill-percentage/136939/70 "2003-03-22T21:20:02Z")
> [@](#): > > Since registering, I’ve slaughtered 17 out of 278 threads, giving me an embarassingly low TKP of 6.1%. > > However, in the last three months I’m at 7.2%. 😕 Quasimodal: registered March 2003, posts 3. Those must have been some very powerful posts. ---
**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tkp-thread-kill-percentage/136939/71 "2003-03-22T22:09:59Z")
65 of 502 threads, ~13% ---
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tkp-thread-kill-percentage/136939/72 "2003-03-22T23:09:38Z")
Out of 226 posts… I killed 17 for an TKP of **13.29** ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tkp-thread-kill-percentage/136939/73 "2003-03-22T23:46:53Z")
Actually, I think the board considers a thread “dead” if it runs for a week and there are no new replies. Therefore, you are technically unable to kill an already dead thread. hmmm…did that make sense? My bet is on **Coldfire** , among the Mods anyway, maybe it’s the name…anybody else? BTW I’m still at 18% ---
**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:** [March 23, 2003, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tkp-thread-kill-percentage/136939/74 "2003-03-23T05:32:43Z")
Lifetime: 134 kills of 1727 threads, 7.71% ---
**Author:** ![Treviathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@Treviathan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treviathan)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tkp-thread-kill-percentage/136939/75 "2003-03-23T07:29:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TTT \* > \*\*😕 Quasimodal: registered March 2003, posts 3. > > Those must have been some very powerful posts. \*\* Hmm…seems a certain brother of mine has come over to the darkside. Wish he’d told me about it before I posted under his name. ---
**Author:** ![curwin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@curwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curwin)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tkp-thread-kill-percentage/136939/76 "2003-03-23T11:53:21Z")
64 out of 537 – around 11.91 % (although this one could up the numbers) ---
**Author:** ![if\_you\_don\_t\_know\_i\_won\_t\_tell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/fbc32d/32.png) [@if\_you\_don\_t\_know\_i\_won\_t\_tell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if_you_don_t_know_i_won_t_tell)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tkp-thread-kill-percentage/136939/77 "2003-04-01T16:08:29Z")
12%…3 out of 26. It was a lot more a few days ago, and it very well may change, seeing as how most of the threads I’ve posted on are still going. ---
**Author:** ![mmm.forbidden\_doughnut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e68b1a/32.png) [@mmm.forbidden\_doughnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mmm.forbidden_doughnut)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tkp-thread-kill-percentage/136939/78 "2003-04-01T19:29:49Z")
4/74 = 5.4% Like many others, much lower than I thought. mmm… mutturing…I’m good enough, I’m smart enough and, doggon it–people like me! ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2003, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tkp-thread-kill-percentage/136939/79 "2003-05-18T18:32:17Z")
I couldn’t help myself… and BTW, IIRC I had discovered that **bibliophage** had about 25% tkp…awesome! in other words (it’s put up or shut up) ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2003, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tkp-thread-kill-percentage/136939/80 "2003-05-18T19:35:05Z")
81 kills out of 989 threads = 8.19% Of course I don’t know how many threads v. kills I have between April and August 1999. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tkp-thread-kill-percentage/136939.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tkp-thread-kill-percentage/136939.md?page=5)