# Ever just go to the "newest member" and go back one user # at a time? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 30, 2017, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-just-go-to-the-newest-member-and-go-back-one-user-at-a-time/797622 "2017-09-30T01:20:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-just-go-to-the-newest-member-and-go-back-one-user-at-a-time/797622/1 "2017-09-30T01:20:12Z")
Doing that right now, as a sort of quasi-survey of the last 50 most recent Dopers to register: [ul] [li]Guest, no posts 9[/li] [li]“Registered User”\* 3[/li] [li]Banned [no posts], gibberish handle 19[/li][li]Banned, intelligible handle 14[/li][li]Email for a handle 1[/li] [li]Guest, one post 3[/li] [li]Guest, 2-5 posts 1[/li][/ul] Fave handles: Mad Mark MoleRemovalWiki Enquisitor SayrtheSooth Pigweed really\_ginsu Dopelesshopefiend3121 The time period for these 50 registrations was 43 hours. \*What makes someone a Registered User, vs. a guest? ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-just-go-to-the-newest-member-and-go-back-one-user-at-a-time/797622/2 "2017-09-30T01:48:43Z")
paying the yearly subscription ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-just-go-to-the-newest-member-and-go-back-one-user-at-a-time/797622/3 "2017-09-30T01:51:22Z")
Where do you find this information? I don’t seem to have the option…? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-just-go-to-the-newest-member-and-go-back-one-user-at-a-time/797622/4 "2017-09-30T01:59:23Z")
A registered user hasn’t answered the confirmation e-mail. Banned [no posts], gibberish handle-spammers, the streaming sports type Banned, intelligible handle- mostly SEO type spammers with maybe a few socks thrown in ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-just-go-to-the-newest-member-and-go-back-one-user-at-a-time/797622/5 "2017-09-30T12:36:27Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > Where do you find this information? I don’t seem to have the option…? Just click on their handle and manually change the user number in the URL (from 234567 to 234566). Even more fun putting in 1 and then going forward from there… ---
**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:** [September 30, 2017, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-just-go-to-the-newest-member-and-go-back-one-user-at-a-time/797622/6 "2017-09-30T13:21:00Z")
As soon as I saw the topic, I thought “Wow, you’d get a lot of spammers that way”. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-just-go-to-the-newest-member-and-go-back-one-user-at-a-time/797622/7 "2017-09-30T17:16:57Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > As soon as I saw the topic, I thought “Wow, you’d get a lot of spammers that way”. Yeah, interesting data (though not surprising). 66% spammers (with maybe a few sock), 8% actual posters.