# Disappearing "Member" status **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 12, 2001, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappearing-member-status/54158 "2001-02-12T16:03:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![don\_Jaime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b4bc9f/32.png) [@don\_Jaime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_Jaime)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2001, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappearing-member-status/54158/1 "2001-02-12T16:03:17Z")
I’m seeing a lot of posters in threads who have a blank space where the word “Member” would normally go. Why is this? An example is the original poster of this thread: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=22232](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=22232) ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2001, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappearing-member-status/54158/2 "2001-02-12T16:15:59Z")
That’s an old thread that was posted when we still used UBB. The conversion process to vB has some glitches: this is one of them. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2001, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappearing-member-status/54158/3 "2001-02-12T22:10:29Z")
Actually, this is a relatively recent issue, which was discussed here last week (I won’t go search up the threads right now, 'cause the boards are crawling). It seems that at some point last week, everyone’s member status got nulled, and as each individual member posts, that status gets restored. On old threads, you’ve just got a lot of folks who don’t post anymore, so they haven’t gotten unnulled yet. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2001, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappearing-member-status/54158/4 "2001-02-12T22:41:02Z")
What he said. If it bugs you too much, send me the names and I’ll go in and fix 'em manually. (Which is what I’ve been doing as I find them, there’s no way I can search for them in a pile.) your humble TubaDiva Admnistrator ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2001, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappearing-member-status/54158/5 "2001-02-13T01:16:04Z")
I stand corrected! ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2001, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappearing-member-status/54158/6 "2001-02-13T02:08:31Z")
…or it could be some posters don’t have a member. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2001, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappearing-member-status/54158/7 "2001-02-13T10:51:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by samclem \* > \*\*…or it could be some posters don’t have a member. 😉 \*\* About 50% of us! –Tim ---
**Author:** ![The\_Ryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7feea3/32.png) [@The\_Ryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Ryan)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2001, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappearing-member-status/54158/8 "2001-02-15T18:32:45Z")
50% of posters don’t have members? How do they type?