# guests

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/143499>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [December 18, 2002, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/143499 "2002-12-18T06:10:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Yumanite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b487fb/32.png) [@Yumanite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumanite)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/143499/1 "2002-12-18T06:10:34Z")

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What does it mean when a person has “guest” under his or her username? Are there any privelages members have that guests don’t?

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**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/143499/2 "2002-12-18T06:14:35Z")

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You’re probably looking at very old threads. Changes in registration and/ or message board software sometimes eat member status, code and shuffle the order of posts.