# "Who Posted" listing order **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 26, 2011, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-posted-listing-order/600878 "2011-10-26T17:17:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-posted-listing-order/600878/21 "2011-10-27T03:10:25Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > If you click on the number of replies for a thread on a forum page, you get a list of names of the people that have posted in that thread, beginning with those with the largest number of replies at the top of the list. O. M. G. I did not know that. (And I’ve been here for a while.) That could maybe come in handy if I want to see whether two or three posters really have started monopolizing a particular thread, as it seems sometimes happens. ---
**Author:** ![Astral\_Rejection](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@Astral\_Rejection](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astral_Rejection)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-posted-listing-order/600878/22 "2011-10-27T03:24:38Z")
If you ever venture into the Game Room and take a peek at the various mafia games, you’ll see we use that feature all the time. So at least in one little corner of the board, it’s phenomenally useful. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-posted-listing-order/600878/23 "2011-10-27T16:08:09Z")
You know, never once in all times I’ve been on this board have I ever clicked on that reply link. That’s so weird. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-posted-listing-order/600878/24 "2011-10-27T16:09:53Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Also, if you click on the number of posts from a particular poster, it lists them for easy reference, with out having to scan the whole thread again. > [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > O. M. G. > > I did not know that. (And I’ve been here for a while.) > > That could maybe come in handy if I want to see whether two or three posters really have started monopolizing a particular thread, as it seems sometimes happens. > [@Astral\_Rejection](#): > > If you ever venture into the Game Room and take a peek at the various mafia games, you’ll see we use that feature all the time. So at least in one little corner of the board, it’s phenomenally useful. 🙂 I was unaware of that feature, too, **Fear Itself** , and that adds to the gee-whiz nature of it. I have used the “Who Posted?” feature on threads where I have been a heavy participant, to be aware of my tendency to “monopolize” topics I’m interested in. I have even quit posting when I became aware of that aspect of my interest in the issue. So it’s a deterrent at times. But, on the other hand, I have used it on some threads with over 50 individual posters to try to decide which Dopers are most likely to be interested in the topics I am. I even had a thread or two on “Who is in your Doper Gang?” or words to that effect. Some of my results were quite surprising to me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-posted-listing-order/600878.md?page=1)