# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/141 "2015-08-12T18:57:19Z")
here since 07.21.1999 ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/142 "2015-08-12T20:14:11Z")
Man, it has been a REALLY long time since I’ve felt like a noob around this place. # 4796 ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/143 "2015-08-13T15:34:22Z")
#1972 - 99er, but not an AOLer ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/144 "2015-08-13T17:58:49Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > While I get the reference, that statement is inaccurate. Some '99ers were not AOLers, such as me. Ditto. Never did AOL. (Nor Prodigy. GEnie for a while.) Was delighted to see SDMB appear, furious when it went pay-to-peek, happy to contribute to the current model. ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/145 "2015-08-15T18:11:13Z")
Still around, although not much. Too much time on the road, not enough at home to catch up around here. And not getting notifications the last couple of months has made it more difficult. :dubious: And #8018. Surprised I made it under the 5 digit mark. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/146 "2015-08-15T21:04:00Z")
> [@Lok](#): > > Still around, although not much. Too much time on the road, not enough at home to catch up around here. And not getting notifications the last couple of months has made it more difficult. :dubious: You don’t need notifications to keep up with threads that you’ve posted in and people have replied. Subscribe to the threads and use your Control Panel - it lists all your subscribed threads. Simple place to check whenever you feel like it. ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2015, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/147 "2015-08-16T16:05:40Z")
Don’t like ads, so I keep re-upping. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2015, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/148 "2015-08-16T17:50:08Z")
I am a Charter. A 99er. _And according to rumor_, which I shall neither confirm, nor deny, a Shape-Shifting Alien Lizard-man. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/149 "2015-08-17T20:56:17Z")
Charter member. Lurked for many months before joining in July, 2000. Often accused of being cold-blooded. No comment on any shape-shifting alienness. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/150 "2015-08-18T01:40:58Z")
Ok. Is ANYONE willing to comment, either on or off the record, about the ability to shape-shift? ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/151 "2015-08-18T11:38:21Z")
I don’t know about shape-shifting, but I never expected this thread to be a “whip it out, I bet mine’s _smaller_!” thread. 😃 Tripler It’s not the size of your user number, it’s how you use it that counts. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/152 "2015-08-18T21:08:54Z")
> [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](#): > > Ok. Is ANYONE willing to comment, either on or off the record, about the ability to shape-shift? I will firmly state on record that I’m totally a shape-shifter. I go from flat to bent and back to flat all the time. What? ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/153 "2015-08-18T22:35:11Z")
> [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](#): > > Ok. Is ANYONE willing to comment, either on or off the record, about the ability to shape-shift? I’ve been here long enough to know to stay out of diet threads. ---
**Author:** ![spinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@spinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spinky)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/154 "2015-08-19T09:48:39Z")
> [@whitetho](#): > > Back on November 28, 2011, **spinky** , using computer skills that are beyond my keen, produced an 11 megabyte text file, [http://sdmbexample.nfshost.com/profiles2.csv](http://sdmbexample.nfshost.com/profiles2.csv) , which included the member listing as of that date. If I’ve done my research correctly, that file has 730 Charter Members, including a handful who have never posted. (Their favorite movie is “Run Silent, Run Deep”.) > > Perhaps if we ask nicely **spinky** will update the list. [Here you go](http://sdmbexample.nfshost.com/profiles_20150818.csv) ETA: oops, I just realized that the spreadsheet I imported that in only did 65535 rows, which is less than half the data, so the numbers I had posted were bogus (now deleted). Ignore those numbers. The CSV is fine. I don’t have anything handy to do the calculations with and i’m too lazy to write the code right now. Knock yourselves out. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![spinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@spinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spinky)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/155 "2015-08-19T23:01:34Z")
ended up writing a bit of code to calculate some stats: ```auto guest: 111880 users 2668 active in last 30d 6098 active in last 180d banned: 29600 users 239 active in last 30d 1276 active in last 180d registered user: 29130 users 152 active in last 30d 1115 active in last 180d member: 972 users 198 active in last 30d 231 active in last 180d charter member: 493 users 343 active in last 30d 396 active in last 180d straight dope science advisory board: 13 users 4 active in last 30d 4 active in last 180d suspended: 9 users 0 active in last 30d 2 active in last 180d 3657 total users active in last 30d 9177 total users active in last 180d ``` Some notes: I left out moderators and administrators, since my code looks at a specific field and many of them have that field changed to something funny. Also, everyone else with a custom title is skipped since I can’t tell what they are (unless we can assume they’re all charter members – I can’t remember the rule – in which case add around 80 people to the charter member column). ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/156 "2015-08-20T00:37:05Z")
There’s a difference between registered users and guests? Surely all guests are registered else they would have no ability to post? ---
**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:** [August 20, 2015, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/157 "2015-08-20T03:52:24Z")
Charter member here… i think. \ Yep. ---
**Author:** ![Tabby\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tabby\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabby_Cat)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/158 "2015-08-20T04:05:00Z")
Yep, I’m here. Number 18532, that’s me. Paid up til 2018, too. I’m kind of surprised I have a number that’s lower than John Mace, I still feel like a newbie sometimes. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2015, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/159 "2015-08-20T15:35:46Z")
All this chat about charter members has sent me to buy two years more; I don’t intend to forget to renew! I don’t get to feel important in my life much so being a charter member AND a 99er means a lot to me. So does the half price membership, actually. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/160 "2015-08-20T17:18:39Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > There’s a difference between registered users and guests? Surely all guests are registered else they would have no ability to post? IIRC, registered users are people who need to confirm their email address is valid. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708.md?page=9)