What is a thread killer?

[LydsZoo]

It feels a little bit silly asking this, because It seems like everyone else knows. I was just wondering what a thread killer was?

 

[Q9]

Short answer - people like me.

Not quite as short answer - they're people who post something that is so mind-bendingly boring or so annoying that nobody feels inclined to respond. Thus, no one posts and the thread dies. Some particularly effective thread killers can kill a thread even if the post in question is fine - the poster's reputation is enough to discourage response. No, no, I'm not one of THOSE posters...

 

[LydsZoo]

Yeah, that's kind of what I thought it was. which means that I was correct in thinking that I am a thread killer, though it is not intentional. Darn...
It's not a good feeling when you notice that you're still the last post on a thread after a few days, that's for sure. unless what you said in that last post was so incredible that everyone was at a loss for words, of course.

wow. I JUST KILLED MY OWN THREAD. Wow.

 

[SourRoses]

What did you kill?
There!

 

[theoldchick]

Me three!

 

[HHandbasket]

Quote:
I think I am one of those posters. I don't mean to be... just kinda turns out that way.

 

[LydsZoo]

Yup, I don't mean to, either. It just happens!

 

[Mahonri]

Once upon a time, I was The KING of thread killing and then Q9 came along and got that monkey off of my back... maybe....

 

[SourRoses]

Well.. I dont know about anyone else.. Hehe.. but Handbasket!
The only reason I can think of that a thread you were on would die, is that everyone can see what you say is so definitive, so shockingly apt, & mind-bogglingly brilliant

 

[CluckyJay]

I'd hate to be the last post on this thread. :O