# How many Dopers are there? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 14, 2013, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dopers-are-there/655650 "2013-04-14T01:30:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dopers-are-there/655650/1 "2013-04-14T01:30:21Z")
I can’t find a place to check. ---
**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dopers-are-there/655650/2 "2013-04-14T01:32:44Z")
As of now, 146,922. It is at the bottom of the home page where it shows the newest member. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dopers-are-there/655650/3 "2013-04-14T01:44:43Z")
Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dopers-are-there/655650/4 "2013-04-14T01:45:30Z")
And if you check the newest member’s number (it’s in the URL) you can tell that… > **[Straight Dope Message Board - Your direct line to thousands of the smartest,...](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php)** > > Fighting Ignorance Since 1973 …there’s a 427 member discrepancy that has been explained by several versions of where some member numbers have been deleted, or lost, or otherwise become unavailable. You can also see in those same statistics that only 7,127 are “active” members. There have been some threads that have dealt with those issues. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dopers-are-there/655650/5 "2013-04-15T14:32:14Z")
1. You, me, Zeldar and Anonymous User. Everyone else is a figment of some celestial beings’ imagination. ---
**Author:** ![DrumBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@DrumBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrumBum)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dopers-are-there/655650/6 "2013-04-15T14:52:55Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > 1. You, me, Zeldar and Anonymous User. Everyone else is a figment of some celestial beings’ imagination. Me too. Used to be a lot more but they were all banned. Oh, and some guy named Cecil ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dopers-are-there/655650/7 "2013-04-15T15:06:31Z")
I’m a "99"er, and my educated guess is that 99.99% of Dopers are “out there”. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dopers-are-there/655650/8 "2013-04-16T13:37:24Z")
> [@czarcasm](#): > > i’m a "99"er, and my educated guess is that 99.99% of dopers are “out there”. iswydt 😉 ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dopers-are-there/655650/9 "2013-04-20T21:50:10Z")
> [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](#): > > How many Dopers are there? Can I put my hand down now?