nemorosa wrote:
wavefreak58 wrote:
Paradoxically, by stating that you are attempting to kill this thread, you have bestowed upon it invulnerability to death except by act of god (admin). For in having declared your intent, you set up a competition between all thread killers and each will attempt to be the last post in the thread. Infinite regress ensues ...
Hhmm, well I may be a tad pedantic here but surely by adding to a thread you cannot be causing
regress?
Regress is invoked because the actual useful content of the thread is diminished by the square of the number of posts attempting to end the thread. We quickly regress towards zero useful content, though strictly speaking it would be the Lim 1/x^2 as x->infinity which, while it indeed converges to zero, we never actually achieve an infinite post count. That said, in cases where the thread is terminated by an admin, we can calculate the exact degradation of useful content as C'=C*1/x^2 where C = actual useful content and x is the number of posts that attempt to end the thread. One should note that attempts to save a thread by adding additional useful content inevitably fail because the degradation varies inversely as the square of x while the increase in useful content is only linear.
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