# Dopeville pop 27,757: how was this measured?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 13, 2002, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopeville-pop-27-757-how-was-this-measured/142375 "2002-12-13T00:23:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lorenzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4da419/32.png) [@Lorenzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lorenzo)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopeville-pop-27-757-how-was-this-measured/142375/1 "2002-12-13T00:23:08Z")

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Does this number represent the number who have posted since day one?

If not, then what?

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**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopeville-pop-27-757-how-was-this-measured/142375/2 "2002-12-13T00:43:26Z")

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[The Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com)

The number of registered posters is listed under the main banner.

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**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopeville-pop-27-757-how-was-this-measured/142375/3 "2002-12-13T00:59:47Z")

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Well, **Eve** ‘measured’ it by pulling it off the main page where it says (or said, at 3:49pm EST):

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> Members: 27,805, Threads: 143,861, Posts: 2,607,685  
> Welcome to our newest member, [stefilea2001](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=27889)

I’m not sure _exactly_ how it’s measured, since there’s a slight discrepancy between the number of members as of 3:49pm (27,805) and the userid# of the newest member (27,889).

But I know that that’s _more or less_ all the users who’ve ever registered here, even the banned ones.

I know that bannings don’t reduce the count of members that the vBulletin software keeps, because I’m sure we’ve had well over 84 bannings even since we made the switch to vBulletin in early 2000.

There are some userid numbers that aren’t in use, for instance, #1 and #30. These may or may not account for the difference between the userid# of the newest member, and the number of members. I don’t know how many unused userid#s there are.

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**Author:** ![SmileyDeath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SmileyDeath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmileyDeath)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopeville-pop-27-757-how-was-this-measured/142375/4 "2002-12-13T01:05:27Z")

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The newest is me!

Hooray.