What's your New-Thread score?

[Indy Coug]

461 / 12,981 = 3.55

Consistency.

496 / 14,552 = 3.40

I'm starting to be a slacker.

[FMCoug]

I'm at or over 500 threads so my NTS is coming down. 9.1

[Donuthole]

I'm at or over 500 threads so my NTS is coming down. 9.1

9.71, actually. (531 new threads)

[scottie]

How lazy are you? How cocky are you? How low is your self-esteem? How oblivious are you? How conceited are you? How defiant are you? How terrible are your search/query skills? How much do you just not give a damn? How interested in discussing a new or previously-untapped topic are you?

Any of those questions (and more) could serve as the title to this thread, as the questions posed refer to some of the reasons people start a new thread on CUF (or any message board, really). Many of these threads are started when an already existing thread on the same or similar topic would perfectly suffice.

As I mentioned last week in a thread before it got overtaken by poorly-quoted "Major League" lines, it was my suspicion that oxcoug starts an inordinate number of new threads. Today when he hopped on the board and promptly started two new threads, I decided to do the math. At the time of my calculations, oxcoug's "new-thread score" was 16.67--a simple number derived by dividing his total threads by his total posts and then moving the decimal to the right two places. In other words, nearly 17% of oxcoug's posts constitute the birth of a new thread.

My other suspicion was that FMCoug was "a distant second". I was right. FM's NTS is 11.66. Quite a ways behind oxcoug, but quite a bit ahead of most others. I spent about 10 minutes crunching the numbers from some of our more prominent posters, and I wasn't able to produce a single poster over 4. From the 10 or 15 I calculated, nikuman came the closest at 3.64. Jeff Lebowski rolled in at 2.43. Most posters score between 1 and 2.

I think it would be interesting to study the sociological reasons why people start (or don't start) new threads. If anybody want to pony up a million bucks, I'll get right to work. If not, let's just do some calculating on our own.

So I ask you, what's your New-Thread Score? Does anybody with over , say, 500 posts have a higher NTS? Who with at least 500 posts has the lowest NTS?

My NTS: 1.57

(NOTE: oxcoug and FM, please don't take this thread the wrong way. I'm not saying that starting a new thread is right or wrong. The way you post is part of who you are on the board, and I'm not in anyway suggesting you change the way you post or the frequency with which you start new threads).

I just calculated mine, I'm at 14.72% (552 threads started, 3751 posts).

[FMCoug]

9.71, actually. (531 new threads)

How do you find out how many if it's over 500?

[scottie]

How do you find out how many if it's over 500?

Assuming you don't have more than 500 in a given category, you only have to run three separate searches and add up the results. Do a separate search for Sports, Non-Sports, and Community; and for all three have Also Search in Child Forums checked.

[Donuthole]

Assuming you don't have more than 500 in a given category, you only have to run three separate searches and add up the results. Do a separate search for Sports, Non-Sports, and Community; and for all three have Also Search in Child Forums checked.

That would work. I just ran two searches with time limiters so they didn't overlap.

[SoCalCoug]

181 / 3,839 = 4.7%

Not bad, I guess.

[SoCalCoug]

Assuming you don't have more than 500 in a given category, you only have to run three separate searches and add up the results. Do a separate search for Sports, Non-Sports, and Community; and for all three have Also Search in Child Forums checked.

Can't you just click on your name, click the "Statistics" tab and then click on the link to "Find all threads started by scottie"?

[SoCalCoug]

Here's a stat for you: Of my 181 threads started, 18 have no replies. Apparently, one out of every ten of the threads I start sucks rocks.

[Art Vandelay]

6.66%

:rockon1:

[DU Ute]

Here's a stat for you: Of my 181 threads started, 18 have no replies. Apparently, one out of every ten of the threads I start sucks rocks.

I'm sure another 10% have replies telling you how much the thread sucks rocks.

[scottie]

Can't you just click on your name, click the "Statistics" tab and then click on the link to "Find all threads started by scottie"?

Nope, bc that result will only go to 500. FM was asking about when you're >500.

[falafel]

Here's a stat for you: Of my 181 threads started, 18 have no replies. Apparently, one out of every ten of the threads I start sucks rocks.

Now that would be an interesting stat. NTS to New Thread Flop ratio.

[Donuthole]

Here's a stat for you: Of my 181 threads started, 18 have no replies. Apparently, one out of every ten of the threads I start sucks rocks.

Now that would be an interesting stat. NTS to New Thread Flop ratio.

wuap has already named this stat:

Yeah, but what's my goosegg score?