# Charter Members: Who and how many are left? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 1, 2015, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708 "2015-08-01T06:07:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee7513/32.png) [@Mona\_Lott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lott)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2024, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/241 "2024-01-08T03:21:08Z")
I’m still here. Joined in October 2001. Hope the SDMB is active for many more years. ---
**Author:** ![Quint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/76d3ee/32.png) [@Quint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quint)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/242 "2024-01-12T06:20:52Z")
Think I’m still a charter member. I mostly lurk still. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/243 "2024-01-12T12:46:50Z")
Same here. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/244 "2024-01-12T12:56:07Z")
> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > > [@DaveRaver](#): > > > > How do you get the list of Charter Members and whether they’ve recently posted? > > From the moderator control panel, which only moderators and admins have access to. I can see a list when I click the words **Charter Member** after the name of anyone posting in this thread. (There’s a pull-down menu at the top that also allows me to see Members, moderators, Retired\_Straight\_Dope\_Staff, et al.) ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/245 "2024-01-12T13:48:04Z")
[https://boards.straightdope.com/g/Charter\_Member](https://boards.straightdope.com/g/Charter_Member) ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2024, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/246 "2024-01-14T01:04:26Z")
I remember when The Straight Dope was a newsgroup. Does that count? ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2024, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/247 "2024-01-14T02:35:50Z")
_Nars_, so you came over from alt.fans.ceciladams?? Way cool!! We knew about it on AOL and it got a mention now and then, and we did know that some folks came here from there as well as from the AOL SDMB, but I haven’t heard much about it since the dawn. ETA: What was the structure of it? I assume like other newsgroups it was intrinsically threaded, but what about larger divisions, did you have the equivalent of forums? ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2024, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/248 "2024-01-14T03:01:47Z")
Yes, alt.fans.ceciladams. I don’t remember any structure to it but it’s been so long that there could have been. I also had a question printed in the third Straight Dope book. I’ve been a fan for a long time. ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2024, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/249 "2024-01-14T03:46:17Z")
It was alt.fan.cecil-adams to be precise. And it’s still going, albeit at an extremely reduced posting volume. I remember that group fondly, as well as the related alt.folklore.urban group that was closely related. ---
**Author:** ![Raza](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raza/32/213_2.png) [@Raza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raza)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2024, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/250 "2024-01-14T15:38:30Z")
Oh yeah, alt.folklore.urban; I remember that. I was even instrumental in CONFIRMING a legend as fact (the one about murderers in a home invasion, finding a camera, taking pictures, and leaving the camera behind). ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2024, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/251 "2024-01-14T16:45:48Z")
Oh wow, that’s near-celebrity status in my book. Only thing better would have been if you had gotten confirmation of the break-in toothbrush photo story. ---
**Author:** ![Raza](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raza/32/213_2.png) [@Raza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raza)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2024, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/252 "2024-01-14T19:25:26Z")
It wasn’t due to any supreme effort on my part; I lucked into having a retired FBI cow-orker who not only had a copy of the case files, but also the photos. ---
**Author:** ![DaveRaver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daveraver/32/1078_2.png) [@DaveRaver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveRaver)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2024, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/253 "2024-01-14T20:33:05Z")
Thank you for that tip. One thing I didn’t realize is that a Charter Member could have joined as late as 2007. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2024, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/254 "2024-01-15T00:57:16Z")
I was on back in the usenet days as well. But wasn’t there an alt.fans.Straightdope or something like that? ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2024, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/255 "2024-01-20T16:27:26Z")
So is it no longer possible, since the switch to Discourse, to find our member numbers? ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/256 "2024-01-21T04:08:06Z")
I am still here, grateful and happy to re-up when called upon. I’m a 99er, an AOL Boarder and bought my first Straight Door book at Coliseum Books in the early 80s… ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/257 "2024-01-21T04:14:50Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > So is it no longer possible, since the switch to Discourse, to find our member numbers? I recall that I had a four-digit one. A high four-digit one, but a four-digit one nonetheless. ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/258 "2024-01-21T09:25:25Z")
@Spoons (because Discourse) A little bit of searching (the entire thread lists a lot of member numbers): > [@Another look at "active users" at SDMB](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-look-at-active-users-at-sdmb/604133/95): > > My user number: 9680 There were 23 signups in the range of others who signed up the day I did (September 21, 2000): users 9674 to 9697 inclusive. User: Username: Posts: Last Activity: 9674 spunky\_monkey 2 12-15-2000 9675 cabbagefreak 1 09-21-2000 9676 broomriders 1 10-24-2001 9677 Zenman 8 09-13-2001 9678 daiseyfreak 0 09-21-2000 9679 Lucki Chaarms 1271 11-12-2004 9680 Spoons 7182 … ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/259 "2024-01-21T09:45:32Z")
Thanks for that, @Die_Capacitrix . I’m user 9680! Yay me! Seriously, thanks for the detective work. It is much appreciated. I’m user 9680! Still four digits! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/260 "2024-01-21T17:11:53Z")
Ah…back in the day when I was **way** more active here. Hard to imagine, since even today I post multiple times almost every day. Seems like somewhere in there I finally got a life! #35658 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708.md?page=14)