AustinBoston
01-06-2006, 10:38 PM
OK, I think I've identified the real threadkiller. And I am guilty. :yikes:
How did I come to this conclusion? Well, statistically, of course, and you know what they say about statisticians!
I developed a "Threadkiller Rating." First, I made a list of everyone who had recently killed a thread. That meant:
1) The thread had to be on page 2, 3, or 4 of this (The Campfire) forum;
2) The thread had to have at least one response (threads nobody responds to are not killed, but stillborn...they never got started).
I then gave out "killed thread points" based on which page the thread was on. I considered page 4 to be "deader" than page 3, and page 3 "deader" than page two. So if you killed a thread on page 2, you got 1 point, if you killed a thread on page 3, you got 2 points, and if you killed a thread on page 4 you got 3 points. I then took the total points and divided that by the total number of posts the user has, so someone with 1,000 posts and three dead threads would not be rated as high as someone with 200 posts and 2 dead threads. Unfortunately, this yielded one entry where *every* post by the user killed a thread, and I did not want to put a newcomer at the top of the list just because of a little bad luck. So to that rating I added the total number of killed threads (unweighted), and got the list below:
Rating Name
24.059 AustinBoston
11.359 dthurk
8.006 tlhdoc
6.333 HappySkamperz
6.300 zamboni
5.066 Calstate361
5.018 TheViking
4.000 Gone-Camping
3.303 wavemaker
3.141 Chisholm Trail-er
3.048 Steve-o-bud
3.024 GeneF
3.017 CampingCoxes
3.008 Kelly
3.003 brainpause
2.952 RVMOMNDAD
2.556 Zagami
2.103 unclejeff
2.081 FishinBC
2.029 cyclone
2.026 HersheyGirl
2.017 Turn Key
2.011 ForestCreature
2.010 vjm1639
1.149 GrizzlyTaco
1.032 campingcop
1.023 SkipP
1.004 Dee4j
1.004 griffsmom
My own "Threadkillers Scale" is like this:
20 or more - Master threadkiller
10-19 - Advanced threadkiller
5-9 - Expert threadkiller
3-5 - Budding threadkiller
0-2 - Have a nice day!
Austin The Master Threadkiller
How did I come to this conclusion? Well, statistically, of course, and you know what they say about statisticians!
I developed a "Threadkiller Rating." First, I made a list of everyone who had recently killed a thread. That meant:
1) The thread had to be on page 2, 3, or 4 of this (The Campfire) forum;
2) The thread had to have at least one response (threads nobody responds to are not killed, but stillborn...they never got started).
I then gave out "killed thread points" based on which page the thread was on. I considered page 4 to be "deader" than page 3, and page 3 "deader" than page two. So if you killed a thread on page 2, you got 1 point, if you killed a thread on page 3, you got 2 points, and if you killed a thread on page 4 you got 3 points. I then took the total points and divided that by the total number of posts the user has, so someone with 1,000 posts and three dead threads would not be rated as high as someone with 200 posts and 2 dead threads. Unfortunately, this yielded one entry where *every* post by the user killed a thread, and I did not want to put a newcomer at the top of the list just because of a little bad luck. So to that rating I added the total number of killed threads (unweighted), and got the list below:
Rating Name
24.059 AustinBoston
11.359 dthurk
8.006 tlhdoc
6.333 HappySkamperz
6.300 zamboni
5.066 Calstate361
5.018 TheViking
4.000 Gone-Camping
3.303 wavemaker
3.141 Chisholm Trail-er
3.048 Steve-o-bud
3.024 GeneF
3.017 CampingCoxes
3.008 Kelly
3.003 brainpause
2.952 RVMOMNDAD
2.556 Zagami
2.103 unclejeff
2.081 FishinBC
2.029 cyclone
2.026 HersheyGirl
2.017 Turn Key
2.011 ForestCreature
2.010 vjm1639
1.149 GrizzlyTaco
1.032 campingcop
1.023 SkipP
1.004 Dee4j
1.004 griffsmom
My own "Threadkillers Scale" is like this:
20 or more - Master threadkiller
10-19 - Advanced threadkiller
5-9 - Expert threadkiller
3-5 - Budding threadkiller
0-2 - Have a nice day!
Austin The Master Threadkiller