Are you a Conversation / Thread killer?

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Are we talking about being the last response to a thread? Or just getting ignored by other posters?

Usually in NT dominated forums there are designated clique threads where a few people with post counts in the millions banter back and forth with little remarks / inside-jokes that are completely indecipherable to anyone on the outside who tries to jump in. If you try to say anything in one of those threads you will be ignored no matter what you say. Also in a lot of forums you don't want to put too much effort into explaining yourself in any one post lest you get TL;DR-ed. NT's are usually lazier than their aspie counterparts when it comes to reading big blocks of text. That and talking over people's heads will get you ignored.

My opinion on thread killing is it's just an excuse. So, no one else wants to post something on a thread, blame the unfortunate soul who just by happenstance was the last to leave a message.

Then there's thread necromancing - making threads seem to live that were never really alive in the first place...

Thread Perception. The ability to see through threads.

Definitely but I attribute this to my policy not to argue with people. I feel like everyone is entitled to their opinion. Often on the forum for my online "coworkers" people are arguing over something small because they are angry that we are earning so little but they can't argue with the company for fear of being fired. Usually I just come in, say how I feel and leave. I often have noticed threads ending right after that. I also have a habit of being more involved with myself than others which I also think contributes to this.

Many threads are like a tree full of monkeys throwing their own excrement at each other

Opinions are like noise coming out of an as*hole, everyone has got one.

When you come in and calmly place something good down( as LadySera states above), the monkeys stop, feel a bit guilty, and go somewhere else (another thread) to start throwing poop again

Its like the silence after something profound, everyone is gobsmacked, and to say anything after that would be to spoil the ambiance of profundity,

or stupidity as the case may be

serial thread/conversation killer. I could train gangster murderers in the art of ending a conversation. M.A., PhD etc in delendo ars loquendi

I don't see it....how can a post stop anybody else from subsequently posting? unless the post so completely answers the thread question that there's no point anybody else saying anything. It might start a fight if it's offensive. It might stimulate discussion if it's controversial or innovative. If it's boring, it might get ignored and people will just carry on posting as if it never happened. Do people really decide whether or not to post based on the content of the past post? I don't.

When a thread dies, its real murderers are those who didn't post after the last post. The last poster just prolonged its life a little longer.

A real-life conversation might be a little different, because the (fixed) participants could react together in realtime to an embarrassing comment by being stony silent for a few mintes, which would be long enough for everybody to realise that the conversation has been killed. But minutes would mean nothing in a Web thread.