# Does anyone else occasionally see a poster they have never seen before post something and you check and find they have been here for 20 years (or a long time)? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 23, 2025, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-occasionally-see-a-poster-they-have-never-seen-before-post-something-and-you-check-and-find-they-have-been-here-for-20-years-or-a-long-time/1020038 "2025-06-23T17:30:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2025, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-occasionally-see-a-poster-they-have-never-seen-before-post-something-and-you-check-and-find-they-have-been-here-for-20-years-or-a-long-time/1020038/41 "2025-06-28T05:26:57Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > And am I really the second-most-prolific poster? Dangerous. Just make sure you don’t become #1. The board has a history of banning its #1. ---
**Author:** ![Lare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/53a042/32.png) [@Lare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lare)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-occasionally-see-a-poster-they-have-never-seen-before-post-something-and-you-check-and-find-they-have-been-here-for-20-years-or-a-long-time/1020038/42 "2025-07-02T19:31:27Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > “Doable for a reasonably good reason” Man, if that doesn’t describe my dating profile… But I am one of those posts-infrequently people you might or might not recognize. I usually post for only 2 reasons: I have a question I think would be answered best here, or I feel I can provide an answer to someone thereby paying back for the times the Board has helped me. But it’s often the case for the latter example that, by the time I read something I can help with, I find that 5 or 6 members have already provided said information. Which is part of the reason I love this place. Oh, and a third reason is that sometimes, albeit rarely, I think I have something amusing to say. Whether my assumption is correct present deponent knoweth not. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-occasionally-see-a-poster-they-have-never-seen-before-post-something-and-you-check-and-find-they-have-been-here-for-20-years-or-a-long-time/1020038/43 "2025-07-07T19:43:40Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > Am I the only one who experiences this? It happens to me occasionally. Less so now with avatars. I’m a visual person. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-occasionally-see-a-poster-they-have-never-seen-before-post-something-and-you-check-and-find-they-have-been-here-for-20-years-or-a-long-time/1020038/44 "2025-07-29T20:30:18Z")
Before this thread I’ve never noticed: **Ellecram** **pjd** **Folly** **Xocomil** **Lare** Make of that what you will. ---
**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:** [July 30, 2025, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-occasionally-see-a-poster-they-have-never-seen-before-post-something-and-you-check-and-find-they-have-been-here-for-20-years-or-a-long-time/1020038/45 "2025-07-30T19:02:29Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Like **natureboy** , who got banned this morning; I read this and was wondering what **natureboy** did, since he always seemed so nice. And he has that nice dolphin avatar. Oh. That would be **dophinboy**. > [@Orville\_mogul](#): > > It is just that I am 6-9 hours ahead of US time and by the time I see a new thread (of US origin) there are usually dozens if not hundreds of posts and there’s not much more I can add. Doesn’t seem to stop me (6 years and 3,800 posts). 😉 Sad to see how many people stopped posting around the time we changed to Discourse. @LSLGuy Thanks for the tip about the User section. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-occasionally-see-a-poster-they-have-never-seen-before-post-something-and-you-check-and-find-they-have-been-here-for-20-years-or-a-long-time/1020038/46 "2025-07-30T19:36:48Z")
> [@Die\_Capacitrix](#): > > Sad to see how many people stopped posting around the time we changed to Discourse. I too was massively disappointed, and most utterly mystified, at the large volume of folks who said that the (trivial IMO) tech change overwhelmed their interest in a community they’d been part of for 15-20 years. IMO its like refusing to go to your favorite restaurant / hangout ever again because they repainted the walls a different shade of off-white. Hint people: it’s about the food or the company, not the wall paint. WTF is wrong with those people? ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-occasionally-see-a-poster-they-have-never-seen-before-post-something-and-you-check-and-find-they-have-been-here-for-20-years-or-a-long-time/1020038/47 "2025-07-30T20:55:29Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > WTF is wrong with those people? A lower tolerance for technological novelty. It’s a difficult trait to live with in this era of accelerating technological advance, but it’s there nonetheless. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-occasionally-see-a-poster-they-have-never-seen-before-post-something-and-you-check-and-find-they-have-been-here-for-20-years-or-a-long-time/1020038/48 "2025-07-30T21:06:42Z")
I’d substitute “negligible” for “lower”, but you’re surely correct. To me at least, anything about the presentation or the process pales as to nothing next to the words of our people. The medium is most definitely _not_ the message, charlatan McLuhan notwithstanding. ---
**Author:** ![Xocomil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xocomil/32/14927_2.png) [@Xocomil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xocomil)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2025, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-occasionally-see-a-poster-they-have-never-seen-before-post-something-and-you-check-and-find-they-have-been-here-for-20-years-or-a-long-time/1020038/49 "2025-07-31T05:13:04Z")
To be fair, I haven’t been posting as long as the others on your list. ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2025, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-occasionally-see-a-poster-they-have-never-seen-before-post-something-and-you-check-and-find-they-have-been-here-for-20-years-or-a-long-time/1020038/50 "2025-07-31T05:28:16Z")
Good God, I’ve read 5000 posts today? Time to go to bed. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2025, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-occasionally-see-a-poster-they-have-never-seen-before-post-something-and-you-check-and-find-they-have-been-here-for-20-years-or-a-long-time/1020038/51 "2025-07-31T19:53:47Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I too was massively disappointed, and most utterly mystified, at the large volume of folks who said that the (trivial IMO) tech change overwhelmed their interest in a community they’d been part of for 15-20 years. For me it wasn’t trivial. I could not get my login to work and it delayed my rejoining for months because figuring it out was a pain. And I’m a tech professional so I can’t imagine what it’s like for people who don’t deal with IT stuff for a living. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-occasionally-see-a-poster-they-have-never-seen-before-post-something-and-you-check-and-find-they-have-been-here-for-20-years-or-a-long-time/1020038.md?page=2)