# A survey of posters **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 15, 1999, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-survey-of-posters/9447 "1999-10-15T16:12:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 1999, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-survey-of-posters/9447/81 "1999-10-17T13:43:00Z")
Since becoming Shirley Ujest in May ( I was Just Joan before that on the old board) I’ve had over 750 stream of conscienceness thoughts on here. It’s cheaper than therapy. My dog is very greatful for SDMB for if it didn’t exist, she would need therapy for all the ranting I do to her in place of this keyboard and screen. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 1999, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-survey-of-posters/9447/82 "1999-10-17T14:12:00Z")
Home 334 4/5/99 ---
**Author:** ![krish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c57346/32.png) [@krish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/krish)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 1999, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-survey-of-posters/9447/83 "1999-10-17T16:14:00Z")
A) Home B) 234 C) Over 6 months ---
**Author:** ![Sycorax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@Sycorax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sycorax)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 1999, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-survey-of-posters/9447/84 "1999-10-18T03:59:00Z")
I can’t stand the suspense any longer Kel- what conclusions do you draw from the survey, besides the fact there are way too many people screwing off at work. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 1999, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-survey-of-posters/9447/85 "1999-10-18T12:58:00Z")
A) 80% Work, 20% home. Just to get the correlation straight 🙂 B) 295, including this one. C) 7-28-99, that’s 82 days if my math is still OK. ## Good luck on the survey Kelli. Oh yeah, I’m white, male, hetero, 26, I smoke, I am a house owner, I drive a Peugeot and I like beer. Any correlations in those data ? Coldfire * * * “You know how complex women are” - Neil Peart, Rush (1993) ---
**Author:** ![MLAW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc8723/32.png) [@MLAW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLAW)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 1999, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-survey-of-posters/9447/86 "1999-10-18T13:14:00Z")
A) Work only B) 2-3 C) A couple of weeks Recently discovered the message board (been going to Straight Dope for about 6 months). Since I have two PCs I’m able to surf on one while the test scrips are running on the second. ---
**Author:** ![kellibelli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@kellibelli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellibelli)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 1999, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-survey-of-posters/9447/87 "1999-10-18T16:06:00Z")
Thank you to all. My conclusions are as follows… We spend entirely too much time goofing off at work. 😉 At home, unless we are already ON the net for something, we arent as likely to check the boards, whereas at work, the computer is right there…and so we check. Its the 1999 equivalent of passing notes or talking in class. The idea that prolific posters dont have a life is not entirely accurate. Posters who are at home, where their ‘life’ is…dont seem to spend as much time here as those at work. Work is not ‘real life’. I, for example, dont take smoke breaks, and as such, posting right at this moment is my brains equivalent to a smoke. (calms me down, perks me up at the same time). The SDMB enhances my typing skills, exercises my brain, its non-fattening, wont give you cancer, or an STD. Its my _hobby_, and as such, it has a priority as something I enjoy very much, but something that is pushed aside when necessary. I think the ‘work posters’ are all pretty similar in that respect. When its busy, we post less, when its not, we are free to post more, read more, compose longer messages. Thanks everyone for participating. \kellibelli\ ---
**Author:** ![SqrlCub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SqrlCub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SqrlCub)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 1999, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-survey-of-posters/9447/88 "1999-10-18T16:22:00Z")
Thanks Doobeious. Sqrl ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 1999, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-survey-of-posters/9447/89 "1999-10-19T05:10:00Z")
A) Work B) 582 (I guess this is # 583) C) 7 months * * * Chaim Mattis Keller [ckeller@schicktech.com](mailto:ckeller@schicktech.com) “Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible. The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks.” – Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-survey-of-posters/9447.md?page=4)