Thread Killer Champions: Franzbear & Moonbear

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The discussion revolves around the humorous concept of "thread killers" on a forum, where participants analyze who tends to end conversations with their posts. The top offenders identified include franznietzsche, Moonbear, and tribdog, with a playful tone suggesting a competition for the title of "thread killer." Participants debate the validity of counting last posts as a measure of thread-killing ability, arguing that it should be adjusted based on the total number of posts each user has made. The conversation shifts into a light-hearted narrative, likening thread-killing to a horror movie scenario, with participants playfully accusing each other of sabotaging discussions and attempting to "steal" the thread. The banter includes references to fictional scenarios involving dramatic rescues and humorous characterizations, maintaining a light and comedic atmosphere throughout.
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Some people seem to be able to make the comment that just ruins a conversation. I've gone back to the last 100 or so really dead threads and counted up how many times each person was the one named as the last poster. Here's my list of PFs best thread killers:
1)with 21- franzneitzche
2)with 15- Moonbear
3)with 12- tribdog
4)with 9-tie-Ivan Seeking and Tsu

Honorable mentions go to:gokul, JasonRox, chrono and mattmns.
 
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Boy, I thought I was bad! Whooo! :smile:

I guess maybe a race to the bottom of the threads should begin, right about, NOW! :-p
 
If i kill the thread:"Ask a stupid answer,get a stupid question",will i get a prize...??A pink ribbon,maybe...?:-p

Daniel.
 
dextercioby said:
If i kill the thread:"Ask a stupid answer,get a stupid question",will i get a prize...??A pink ribbon,maybe...?:-p

Daniel.

franz won't let you kill it until it hits 2000 posts. He's been desperately ressurecting it every time someone rightfully should have killed it.
 
I don't know whether to post or not?
 
Andy said:
I don't know whether to post or not?

:smile: Don't worry, apparently those of us who always have to get in the last word have been outed. :-p
 
Ooh, an honorable mention !

Now for the snooty, academic part :

Tribdog, your conclusion (ability to kill threads) is not a direct outcome of the evidence (number of last posts). You have to at least factor in the total number of posts by each person (posts in GD) to get a more accurate representation of the killer instinct. Franz and Moonie have so many posts here, they are more likely to be the winning killers. You have to divide the number of kills by the total number of posts during the same period to get a corrected distribution.
 
Gokul43201 said:
Ooh, an honorable mention !

Now for the snooty, academic part :

Tribdog, your conclusion (ability to kill threads) is not a direct outcome of the evidence (number of last posts). You have to at least factor in the total number of posts by each person (posts in GD) to get a more accurate representation of the killer instinct. Franz and Moonie have so many posts here, they are more likely to be the winning killers. You have to divide the number of kills by the total number of posts during the same period to get a corrected distribution.

:smile:

Now, you also need to factor in the primary cause of death. Just because franz attempts to resurrect dead posts on a nightly basis, it doesn't mean he's the one who killed them. They were long dead before he posted in them. That's like saying the ER doc is the murderer because they couldn't bring a gunshot victim back to life. :biggrin:
 
Dude, you read through the last 100 or so dead threads just to catalogue the final posters? How much free time do you have?
 
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If he's got so much time,why doesn't he catalogue the posters with # of posts in the TD subforum,as Greg wanted them not to be added to the indivdual tally...?

Daniel.
 
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I can't believe I was not mentioned. I make a post and no one says anything at all. Oh well. This thread is dead. :frown:

The Bob (2004 ©)
 
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Gokul43201 said:
Ooh, an honorable mention !

Now for the snooty, academic part :

Tribdog, your conclusion (ability to kill threads) is not a direct outcome of the evidence (number of last posts). You have to at least factor in the total number of posts by each person (posts in GD) to get a more accurate representation of the killer instinct. Franz and Moonie have so many posts here, they are more likely to be the winning killers. You have to divide the number of kills by the total number of posts during the same period to get a corrected distribution.
spoken like a true thread killer
 
  • #13
I've killed a few threads. :frown:
 
  • #14
Evo said:
I've killed a few threads. :frown:

Yeah, but when you kill a thread, you have the powers to hide the evidence. :smile:
 
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:cry: I'm disappointed - as a Reublican, I naturally always want to have the last word and I thought I did a good job of killing threads in the Politics forum.

By the way, how much time do you have on your hands, exactly...?
 
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tribdog said:
Some people seem to be able to make the comment that just ruins a conversation. I've gone back to the last 100 or so really dead threads and counted up how many times each person was the one named as the last poster. Here's my list of PFs best thread killers:
1)with 21- franzneitzche
2)with 15- Moonbear
3)with 12- tribdog
4)with 9-tie-Ivan Seeking and Tsu

Honorable mentions go to:gokul, JasonRox, chrono and mattmns.


I thought my name was suspiciously at the end of too many threads.

However, i contend that my rank is solely due to the fact that i post far more than anyone else in here, so of course far more threads would have ended with my posts,thats just simple statistics.
 
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russ_watters said:
:cry: I'm disappointed - as a Reublican, I naturally always want to have the last word and I thought I did a good job of killing threads in the Politics forum.

:smile: Awww...poor Russ. Sorry to break it to you, but when a Republican says something in a room full of Democrats/liberals, you'll NEVER get the last word. I don't know if tribdog counted the politics subforum in his rankings. Otherwise, I'd probably be much lower on the list given the limited number of posts I have in Politics.

Of course, another way I could choose to interpret the results are that some of us are just incredibly adept at so fully resolving an issue that once we speak, there is no room left for any more debate. *awaits tomatoes being thrown: I really wanted to make some salsa anyway*[/size] :biggrin:
 
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Moonbear said:
Yeah, but when you kill a thread, you have the powers to hide the evidence. :smile:
Yep, I just make the last post look like franz posted it. :biggrin:
 
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Moonbear said:
Of course, another way I could choose to interpret the results are that some of us are just incredibly adept at so fully resolving an issue that once we speak, there is no room left for any more debate.

And henceforth, you and all others like yourself shall be known as "THE MASTER DEBATORS"! :smile:
 
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polyb said:
And henceforth, you and all others like yourself shall be known as "THE MASTER DEBATORS"! :smile:


I already held that title. :frown:
 
  • #21
tribdog said:
Honorable mentions go to:gokul, JasonRox, chrono and mattmns.

Sweet, and according to Gokul's logic, I am probably the thread killin king.
 
  • #22
polyb said:
And henceforth, you and all others like yourself shall be known as "THE MASTER DEBATORS"! :smile:

Geez, post in one thread in biology and I'm branded for life. :redface:
 
  • #23
JasonRox said:
I feel stupid posting last. It's like no one read your post.


You get used to that feeling after a while
 
  • #24
Ouch...Franz,be more polite...

Daniel.
 
  • #25
dextercioby said:
Ouch...Franz,be more polite...

Daniel.
What?

I was speaking from personal experience.

I did get used to that feeling...
 
  • #26
I hope so, you've had enough practice
 
  • #27
This post is just to help franznietzsche out...
*didn't want to see him kill yet another thread*

LOLOLOLOL
 
  • #28
are you kidding? this is his 15 minutes of fame. let him have the title
 
  • #29
tribdog said:
are you kidding? this is his 15 minutes of fame. let him have the title


Watch it tribdog, or i'll stompin' on your tail. :devil:
 
  • #30
You know what I hate...

Long threads that you missed from the beginning. If you choose to read all the posts, you realize 90% of the posts have nothing to do with the topic. If they do relate to the topic, then all the posts are really long and take a million hours to finish.
 
  • #31
Jason,why did u post?We were supposed to let Franz kill the "killer thread" thread,2...:-p

Daniel.

P.S.Now he won't post in this thread as not to add another "prey" to "collection"...:-p
 
  • #32
dextercioby said:
Jason,why did u post?We were supposed to let Franz kill the "killer thread" thread,2...:-p

Daniel.

P.S.Now he won't post in this thread as not to add another "prey" to "collection"...:-p


Nope got to keep my reputation up as thread-killer, besides, I'm a post-phyte(let that one settle in for a while)
 
  • #33
Locking threads should not count.
 
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Thankfully Franz cannot lock threads...:-p *relieved*

Daniel.
 
  • #35
dextercioby said:
Thankfully Franz cannot lock threads...:-p *relieved*

Daniel.


Darn. Oh well, i'll have to settle for posting a hundred times more than everyone else.
 
  • #36
Chronos said:
Locking threads should not count.
I don't know about that - when Zero was a mentor (and I wasn't), I purposely got threads I didn't like locked in the Politics forum (though, admittedly, he usually took the opportunity to get the last word...). :smile: Its the same as saying something people won't respond to - just more effective and final.
 
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Muaaaaaa! They don't suspect me! They think it's franznietzsche, but it is really me. Muaaaaaa! :devil:

I lurk in the anonymous recesses of the internet, watching and waiting for my moment to pounce. I log in, post my response, and I sit and quietly watch as the thread whithers and dies away. In a matter of hours it's over. :devil:

Oh, one or two others, franznietzsche for example, may come along and try to breath life back into it, but it is dead alright. And no amount of clever chatter can save it. Muaaaaa! :devil:

And I didn't even make the "also ran" list! :devil:
 
  • #38
What are you talking about?
 
  • #39
Nice try franz, this one's mine! Muwahahahahaha! :devil:
 
  • #40
See. Weak attempts at resuscitation, but it's dead. :devil:

(Actually I looked back and franz does have a lot of kills to his credit. The Doctor Kevorkian of PF. He just sneaks in and puts the threads to sleep.)
 
  • #41
Artman said:
See. Weak attempts at resuscitation, but it's dead. :devil:

(Actually I looked back and franz does have a lot of kills to his credit. The Doctor Kevorkian of PF. He just sneaks in and puts the threads to sleep.)


Au contrair, i resurrect long dead ones, but without the help of the local medical establishment i can't keep them alive. Alas, i am a failed Dr Frankenstein it would seem.
 
  • #42
Does it count as a thread kill when I make a comment, then lock the thread?
 
  • #43
Integral said:
Does it count as a thread kill when I make a comment, then lock the thread?
That's thread execution. We just have to assume the death penalty is justified.
 
  • #44
Integral said:
Does it count as a thread kill when I make a comment, then lock the thread?

Nope, it's cheating if you lock the thread, so we can't count that. If we started counting locked threads, tribdog would be pretty busy counting that sea of corpses over in TD.
 
  • #45
Moonbear said:
Nope, it's cheating if you lock the thread, so we can't count that. If we started counting locked threads, tribdog would be pretty busy counting that sea of corpses over in TD.


Yeah, but it would be easier in TD, because there the threads are all stillborn, its the thread posters who kill them.
 
  • #46
franznietzsche said:
Yeah, but it would be easier in TD, because there the threads are all stillborn, its the thread posters who kill them.

:smile: True, very true.

*yanks thread out of franz's hands* I told you, this one's MINE...Mine, mine, all mine! I'm going to kill this thread or die trying! :-p

:smile:
 
  • #47
*sneaks in*
 
  • #48
mattmns said:
*sneaks in*
I wonder how long we can sustain this? (it's mine I tell you. I killed it.)
 
  • #49
Artman said:
I wonder how long we can sustain this? (it's mine I tell you. I killed it.)

*jumps over coffee table and knocks over lamp lunging for Artman* Hey! Give it back! It's MY dead thread. :-p
 
  • #50
Moonbear said:
:smile: True, very true.

*yanks thread out of franz's hands* I told you, this one's MINE...Mine, mine, all mine! I'm going to kill this thread or die trying! :-p

:smile:


Nope it will go to me, because i'll post in it at about 3 Am, and then post in enough threads after it to put it 3 pages back. Then you'll never find it, and i will win.
 

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