# Guests vs Veteran Dopers **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 31, 2012, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-vs-veteran-dopers/633272 "2012-08-31T15:55:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-vs-veteran-dopers/633272/21 "2012-09-01T03:43:15Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > None of them really are worth much of anything, given that most boards have all of them for free. > > Now, if the board wanted to make some serious cash, here’s how you do it: for $5, you can suspend another poster for 24 hours. (I’d also make a new forum that suspended posters can post in, both out of fairness and because it would be more entertaining.) GD alone would bring in a million dollars a year, I’m sure of it. Hm. Would the suspension be immediate? Could $10 reverse the suspension? Could $15 double reverse the suspension? Maybe suspensions could be limited to 24 hours, at which point you gain 48 suspension-free hours, starting from your next post. I support this proposal. I trust that the denizens of this board would agree that it is a fair system. ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-vs-veteran-dopers/633272/22 "2012-09-01T04:12:40Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Stats are one of the things we pay for. If everybody gets them, that kills that ever-so-lucrative revenue stream. We pay so that people who don’t can see our stats??? ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-vs-veteran-dopers/633272/23 "2012-09-01T04:21:27Z")
> [@Measure\_for\_Measure](#): > > Hm. Would the suspension be immediate? Could $10 reverse the suspension? Could $15 double reverse the suspension? Maybe suspensions could be limited to 24 hours, at which point you gain 48 suspension-free hours, starting from your next post. > I support this proposal. I trust that the denizens of this board would agree that it is a fair system. $5 to reverse the suspension. And even when you’re suspended, you could still suspend someone–your suspender, if you so desire. Oh, that’d be fun! 😃 Okay, no, not really. But thinking about the massive trainwreck is fun. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-vs-veteran-dopers/633272/24 "2012-09-01T04:27:47Z")
> [@clairobscur](#): > > We pay so that people who don’t can see our stats??? Yep. That way we can flaunt our superiority and inate classiness in front of the unwashed masses. ---
**Author:** ![Snerky\_Snerk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Snerky\_Snerk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snerky_Snerk)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-vs-veteran-dopers/633272/25 "2012-09-01T10:44:14Z")
So…What we’ve got here is… failure to read a join date? Some Bubbas you just can’t reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way Ed wants it…well, he gets it. I don’t like it any more than you members. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-vs-veteran-dopers/633272/26 "2012-09-01T11:03:33Z")
If the join date isn’t enough, the post count is only 2 clicks away. The same distance porn should be. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-vs-veteran-dopers/633272/27 "2012-09-01T11:06:46Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Stats are one of the things we pay for. If everybody gets them, that kills that ever-so-lucrative revenue stream. Then paid members should see everyone’s stats, and guests should see nothing. That is the only way that policy makes sense. To deny paying members information about guests punishes the paying member. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-vs-veteran-dopers/633272/28 "2012-09-01T14:38:55Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > If the join date isn’t enough, the post count is only 2 clicks away. The same distance porn should be. Exactly. I fail to see the issue. 1\> Click on their user name. 2\> Click on View Profile. 3\> Look at mini-statistics on right. 4\> Hit the back button to go back to the thread. 5\> Fall to the ground exhausted by how much work that was. Spend the rest of the day in bed recovering. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-vs-veteran-dopers/633272/29 "2012-09-01T14:40:54Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > Recently I chewed on [who](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=15433596&postcount=131) I thought was a frequent poster in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=422951) only to face all of the white knights that came to her rescue. Wait, wait… YOU chewed on her and then faced down all the white\* knights? :dubious: - Racist! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-vs-veteran-dopers/633272/30 "2012-09-01T15:52:44Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > If the join date isn’t enough, the post count is only 2 clicks away. The same distance porn should be. And has the same restrictions as searching which means, if you happen to want to check **two** user status you get the ever so inconvenient wait. **Snerky Snerk** I’m trying real hard to be reachable **Chimera**. Never said I faced **down** the knights. Matter of fact. I was just facing them when they ran over me…backed up…then repeated as unnecessary. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-vs-veteran-dopers/633272/31 "2012-09-01T16:01:24Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > Matter of fact. I was just facing them when they ran over me…backed up…then repeated as unnecessary. I seem to recall you joining the pack as they called for my blood. 😉 Sometimes it’s amusing to sit back, dissolve your ego and observe social behavior. Everyone was so eager to join in, grab the pitchforks and chase down the monster. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-vs-veteran-dopers/633272/32 "2012-09-01T17:14:31Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > And has the same restrictions as searching which means, if you happen to want to check **two** user status you get the ever so inconvenient wait. Nonsense. There is no wait. You can view as many user profiles as you want in succession just by clicking the username in their post. There is no two-minute wait in between. ---
**Author:** ![Snerky\_Snerk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Snerky\_Snerk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snerky_Snerk)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-vs-veteran-dopers/633272/33 "2012-09-01T18:07:13Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > –snip– > **Snerky Snerk** I’m trying real hard to be reachable. > –snip– Oh oh. **BubbaDog** , that wasn’t really a serious shot at you personally. I should have noted that my post be read in the voice of the Prison Guard watching over the work crew, from Cool Hand Luke: “What we’ve got here is…failure to communicate”…etc. The only points that I was making there were: - If you’d noted the newbie’s join date, you probably wouldn’t have nibbled at them. - Good luck getting a change made to the board. - Pepsi is better than Coke. I am aware you may know that, and I have been wooshed. But better to be wooshed than worry you might have taken that wrong. No offense intended to you at all. I’m still a new poster, and to be honest, only seen you in the MMP threads. In the spreadsheets that I’ve made of all the posters here, you have a rating of 3 out of 5, and the only comment is ‘Pleasant MMPer’. Was a surprise to hear you were chewing up newbies in the pit. I might have to review your 3 star rating. :😉 ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-vs-veteran-dopers/633272/34 "2012-09-01T21:54:29Z")
**Chimera** This dog don’t join no pack to pick on you. More fun to butt heads (Yes, it takes a butthead to know a butthead) one on one. **cochrane** I must have been in Bizzaro SDMB this last week cuz I could have sworn I was limited on multiple viewings of membership names. Maybe it happened when I clicked “show all posts” or something. Given my recent track record on accurate statements concerning the operation of this board I’m just going to throw myself to the mercy of the teeming millions. **Snerky Snerk** Understood. No offense was taken. And thanks for the kind words. I gotta tell you though, I can’t remember the last time I posted on an MMP thread. I usually don’t open them. You might have me confused with some other brilliant, witty, handsome poster. I gotta restate it. Having a post count visible for all posters, not just subscribers, would be a real help. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-vs-veteran-dopers/633272/35 "2012-09-01T22:21:11Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > I gotta restate it. Having a post count visible for all posters, not just subscribers, would be a real help. Yes, it would. Why don’t you spearhead the drive to get “undocumented” posters to join and become subscribers? Problem solved, Cecil’s happy, all’s right with the world! ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-vs-veteran-dopers/633272/36 "2012-09-01T22:32:47Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > Yes, it would. Why don’t you spearhead the drive to get “undocumented” posters to join and become subscribers? Problem solved, Cecil’s happy, all’s right with the world! Whew! For a second there I was worried that you wanted **ME** to pay for all those subscriptions. If I did that I’d have only 25 or so Million dollars left in my bank account. It would really damage my Christmas plans. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-vs-veteran-dopers/633272/37 "2012-09-01T23:33:38Z")
> [@clairobscur](#): > > We pay so that people who don’t can see our stats??? Thank you! 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-vs-veteran-dopers/633272.md?page=1)