I am Threadkiller

WanderingMonster · 21st August 2002, 03:07 AM

Okay, I am officially appending my screenname with the honorific, "Threadkiller". There hasn't been--in recent memory--a thread that has last more than 1-2 posts past when I last posted. The most recent example:

http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showt...threadid=20785

Now, I have this rule of only posting when I have something to add, or when I feel I might have a witty take on the subject (read: not often). But lately I feel as if my contributions are merely unneeded ballast that sink the sub.

Don't get me wrong, I have a sense of humor and would fully appreciate the irony if this post sank into the Abyss of lost threads. What I'm looking for is gratuitous pity, useful comments from successful posters, and less useful comments from the majority of you souless wisenheimers out there.

gfunk · 21st August 2002, 03:10 AM

Well, one tip I can give you for long-lasting threads is to make it an interesting, unique, or funny topic. For a good example, do a search on "slaad farming."

Fayredeth · 21st August 2002, 03:15 AM

You should post more often, if, for no other reason, than the signature!

DarwinofMind · 21st August 2002, 03:15 AM

I think your problem is people get so distracted by those wonderful .sigs you use that they forget to reply. Your sigs have always been one of my favoriite things about ENWorld, kept meaning to tell you that for years now.

333 Dave · 21st August 2002, 03:17 AM

POST MORE OFTEN WM! YOU RULE!

::Gets eaten by an Exsasperated DM::

Hatchling Dragon · 21st August 2002, 03:23 AM

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Originally posted by gfunk
Well, one tip I can give you for long-lasting threads is to make it an interesting, unique, or funny topic. For a good example, do a search on "slaad farming."

And for those of us that can't Search... :rolleyes:

Well, yet...

And don't worry WanderingMonster, I have a fate far worse 'n yours, being ignored on threads. I used to have your very same 'issue', posting a well-thought-out (ok, for me

) reply only to see the entire thread whither away 'n die. Now I'm morbidly searching for any sorta Quote/reference to anything I've posted. Naturaly enough those are few 'n far between.

I have been told/noticed that a few factors do contribute to being noticed and/or avoiding a Critical Kill of a thread. In no particular order:

Brevity: Keep it short, not a lotta attention span to go around here Where was I again...
Spelling/Grammer: Yup, we have Spelling/Grammer wh... er, mongers here, me included (a little)
Organization: Avoid rambling (un-like me), allowing longer replies
Topic: Stay on/near it or you'll loose people, me included (sometimes)

I'll append this list if I think up more, or wanna steal good points from others

And my prediction, someone(')s going to be a wisenhiemer and quote the heck outta me here...

Hatchling Dragon

Mark · 21st August 2002, 03:34 AM

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Originally posted by WanderingMonster
What I'm looking for is gratuitous pity, useful comments from successful posters, and less useful comments from the majority of you souless wisenheimers out there.

If you don't respond to this thread, you will have broken your losing streak. I wonder if you will have the willpower...?

Holy Bovine · 21st August 2002, 03:38 AM

But your the Wandering Monster! Everybody flees when the Wandering Monsters show up - that's just good dungeon delving.

Wandering Monsters are notorious HP sumps and always short on the EPs and swag!

We were all just following our ingrained insticts - don't take it too personally

I do know how you feel though - I have killed a thread or two in my time, in my case it is (mostly) unintentionally offending someone-though-I-thought-I-was-being-funny-honest type of thing.

Holy Bovine · 21st August 2002, 03:41 AM

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Originally posted by Hatchling Dragon

And for those of us that can't Search... :rolleyes:

Well, yet...

And don't worry WanderingMonster, I have a fate far worse 'n yours, being ignored on threads.

Who said that??!

Quote:

IAnd my prediction, someone(')s going to be a wisenhiemer and quote the heck outta me here...

Hatchling Dragon

well now you've just taken all the fun out of it *harumph*

Chun-tzu · 21st August 2002, 03:54 AM

Post early. That way, you can get promoted to having your posts ignored, like Hatchling Dragon.

In addition to being brief, don't use long paragraphs. Nobody reads long, unbroken paragraphs.

BTW, have you considered the possibility that it's not that no one is posting after you, but that those posts are disappearing or being deleted? If you watch the boards around 4 a.m., you may find various messages talking about strange things happening around these boards, but by morning, the messages have disappeared and the posters seem to vanish, as if they've been grabbed in mid-senten

WanderingMonster · 21st August 2002, 04:02 AM

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Originally posted by Mark

If you don't respond to this thread, you will have broken your losing streak. I wonder if you will have the willpower...?

Well, no.

And thank you for the "loser" implication there, Mark. It's just what the esteem ordered. A little salt? Why yes, this wound doesn't hurt nearly enough. In case you didn't notice I put gratuitous pity first. :rolleyes:

For those who are taking my whine with some cheese, here's one idea I had. Tell me if it has merit: I'll post about my social life. I mean, my dating life has been in the proverbial toilet (oh yeah--Ben Franklin wrote a lot of toilet proverbs that were ahead of his time) for about eight years. Ever since I got married, it seems as if single women avoid me like the plague.

What do you think?

Furn_Darkside · 21st August 2002, 04:03 AM

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Originally posted by WanderingMonster
Ever since I got married, it seems as if single women avoid me like the plague.

*chuckle*

Somebody needs a hug...

FD

ogre · 21st August 2002, 04:03 AM

I feel for ya WM, same thing happens to me.... as will be evident very soon.

Airwolf · 21st August 2002, 04:07 AM

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Originally posted by WanderingMonster
Okay, I am officially appending my screenname with the honorific, "Threadkiller".

I feel an idea for a PrC coming on.

If it was anyone else I would say its your sig, but you've got the best one on the boards. Of course its not as good looking as mine but it is more witty.

WanderingMonster · 21st August 2002, 04:07 AM

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Originally posted by Chun-tzu
BTW, have you considered the possibility that it's not that no one is posting after you, but that those posts are disappearing or being deleted? If you watch the boards around 4 a.m., you may find various messages talking about strange things happening around these boards, but by morning, the messages have disappeared and the posters seem to vanish, as if they've been grabbed in mid-senten

I like the conspiracy angle. Take the burden off of me and puts it in the hands of a nameless force bent on usurping threads and deleting meritous comments.

I like it.

CrazyMage · 21st August 2002, 04:53 AM

I'll 1) keep this thread alive and
2) join with the others in praising your sig. I seem to remember (must have been around Christmas time) something about a "dire partridge in a treant" that made me laugh every time I saw it.

I've had most of my threads fade away as well. Some day I'll come up with something great. "What's up with the monk?" I bet that one would fly...

Brown Jenkin · 21st August 2002, 05:44 AM

I feel your pain. I think I just killed one of my own threads today. And now that I have posted here as well you might as well say goodbye to this one too.

Mark · 21st August 2002, 05:48 AM

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Originally posted by WanderingMonster
And thank you for the "loser" implication there, Mark.

Oh, please...

Being on a streak, winning or losing, makes you neither a winner nor a loser, just streaky!

You still have one of the most original and inventive sigs that has ever graced a message board, if that helps...?

Rune · 21st August 2002, 05:49 AM

Man, over the years there have been a few sigs on these boards that have made me laugh loud and long, but yours is the only one that does so over and over again.

Thanks!

Chun-tzu · 21st August 2002, 06:03 AM

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Originally posted by WanderingMonster

I like the conspiracy angle. Take the burden off of me and puts it in the hands of a nameless force bent on usurping threads and deleting meritous comments.

I like it.

I was wrong. There is no conspiracy or strange happenings on EN Boards. Everything here is perfect. Go about your daily... I can't do this! It's a sham! Logout now, before they get you, too! Trust no one! Not even