You answered with the correct information I’ll buy. But that no one jumped in to add some wise-assed comment ---- I mean interesting viewpoint??? You have to be kidding.
I have had 4 (out of 260 threads started).
So far I’m the champ. 
I have three out of 42. My percentage dwarfs yours. 
Oh yeah? Well I’m thinking of replying to all of yours …
Why didn’t I think of that? Ninja’d again. :smack:
ISTM I’ve ended more threads than some of the statistics given above, but I haven’t actually been keeping count of them. Maybe this coming year I should.
Rank amateurs! 57, not including any that might have been disappeared during out Summer of Lost Content.
If non answered threads count, my numbers should be pretty high.
You can do a search with 0 as the max number of replies.
I’ve had a few, let’s see if it continues…
If someone had DB access, this seems like a fairly trivial query. All you’d have to do is find the highest post number for each thread (within your date limits, if any), and then get the username associated with that. Then group that by username and sort by count.
I don’t know how many OPs I’ve started (correct me if I’m wrong, but the stats page stops at 500), but if I had done the right thing and said “thank you” at the end I’d be in the running.
But some threads trended out so rapidly by the time I got back to them, I would’ve been thanking them for a completely new set of (interesting) facts and arguments; there the posters must endure my my hauteur.
(Hey, that rhymes! Sort of.)
You don’t even need direct DB access. The forum list page has the name of the last poster for each thread, so you can programmatically loop through all the pages of a forum to extract the complete list of threads. As you say, it’s a simple query after that.
Crap, I’m nerd sniping myself…
I know. I took the joke to the next step. I do that a lot. Unfortunately, I’m apparently not very funny about it.
Let’s see if I can boost my score…
OK, you win.
Oops.