I am Threadkiller

[WanderingMonster]

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/showthread.php?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]

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]

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

 

[Moon_Goddess]

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]

POST MORE OFTEN WM! YOU RULE!

::Gets eaten by an Exsasperated DM::

 

[Hatchling Dragon]

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...

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]

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]

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]

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

Well, yet...

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

Who said that??!

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]

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