# How long have you been a Doper? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 9, 2009, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-a-doper/513196 "2009-10-09T15:27:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SylverOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SylverOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SylverOne)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-a-doper/513196/21 "2009-10-09T17:52:13Z")
I lurked for close to a year before joining… this place intimidated the hell outta me. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-a-doper/513196/22 "2009-10-09T17:55:13Z")
Before signing up, I was a lurker since about 2004 or 5. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-a-doper/513196/23 "2009-10-09T17:58:06Z")
I’m with the others who lurked for over a year before joining. This place scared me a bit too. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-a-doper/513196/24 "2009-10-09T18:00:07Z")
I said 5, but if you count being a book-buying Cecil fan then I get 10+. ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-a-doper/513196/25 "2009-10-09T18:31:24Z")
Lurked since when my college roommate showed me the dope in 2003. Joined only recently w/ the help of **Boozy** , then the place went free. So :Shrug: ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-a-doper/513196/26 "2009-10-09T18:33:43Z")
I found this place in…2004? I think it was 2004, but I don’t count that as my real start date since I didn’t even lurk much until my senior year of college in 2005, so that’s what I put down as my real start as a doper. ETA: Looking at my join date, it \*was \*2004 that I first found this place. Still, I am not going to count much of those first few months. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-a-doper/513196/27 "2009-10-09T18:52:01Z")
I was on the old AOL board, so I checked 10 years or more. When I joined the Web-based board, I signed up as jseigle, then some time later re-registered under my current moniker. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-a-doper/513196/28 "2009-10-09T20:21:04Z")
6 and a half years. That’s longer than I’ve ever lived at a single address for! ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-a-doper/513196/29 "2009-10-09T20:29:50Z")
I lurked for a few months before joining. ---
**Author:** ![JR\_Brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JR\_Brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JR_Brown)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-a-doper/513196/30 "2009-10-09T20:30:20Z")
I’ve officially been a Doper for 3 and a half years, but I lurked for over a year before that, so I put down 5. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-a-doper/513196/31 "2009-10-09T20:35:51Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > I lurked in December '99 before registering in early 2000, but it’s still not been 10 years. You and me, both, Doctor. I can’t believe that 10 years is coming my way. That’s both astonishing and alarming. ETA: For that matter, Qadgop, we apparently signed up one day apart! Great minds and all that. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-a-doper/513196/32 "2009-10-09T20:40:34Z")
I’m estimating 9 years, could be more. I lurked for a few years, then for a few years had a different account that I lost access to when I forgot the password to the email account assigned to it, then this one. I’m actually pretty sure now that it was in the 1990s that I first found the Dope… Joe ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-a-doper/513196/33 "2009-10-09T20:43:38Z")
I poked around the AOL board once or twice and the SD site pre-message board, but I wasn’t regularly Doping online til this (well, the UBB) board. ---
**Author:** ![RetroVertigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@RetroVertigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RetroVertigo)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-a-doper/513196/34 "2009-10-09T22:13:21Z")
I lurked for two years before joining. Come to think of it, I still pretty much only lurk. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-a-doper/513196/35 "2009-10-09T22:23:09Z")
Started back in 99. JDT where are you? ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-a-doper/513196/36 "2009-10-09T22:49:58Z")
It will be seven years in another month and a half. ---
**Author:** ![Jettboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@Jettboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jettboy)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-a-doper/513196/37 "2009-10-09T22:56:08Z")
Almost a year. I remembered reading Cecil’s column in the _Austin Chronicle_ back when I lived in the Lone Star State. Did an internet search and stumbled upon this place(?). There’s always such a wide variety of topics and personalities that it quickly became my favorite forum/message board. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Gui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@El\_Gui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Gui)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-a-doper/513196/38 "2009-10-09T23:16:40Z")
9 years. I vying for the lowest \*PPD award. (\*posts per day) ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-a-doper/513196/39 "2009-10-10T01:52:52Z")
Sorry, El Gui. My hubby DeathLlama has been on the SDMB since 1999 and has fewer than 300 posts. Might even be fewer than 250. But good (lack of) effort! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-a-doper/513196/40 "2009-10-10T02:35:41Z")
I am a Mighty 99er, & a damn regular poster. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-a-doper/513196.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-a-doper/513196.md?page=3)