# How many subscribers have paid $14.95 to date? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 9, 2004, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-subscribers-have-paid-14-95-to-date/254295 "2004-07-09T15:15:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Vision\_of\_Love](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Vision\_of\_Love](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vision_of_Love)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-subscribers-have-paid-14-95-to-date/254295/1 "2004-07-09T15:15:56Z")
Sorry if this has been asked before, but I did a quick search and couldn’t find an answer to my question. Anyways, just curious. ---
**Author:** ![Earthling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/90db22/32.png) [@Earthling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthling)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-subscribers-have-paid-14-95-to-date/254295/2 "2004-07-09T15:55:26Z")
At the end of the discounted subscription period, I counted 3790 subscribers in the [Forum Leaders](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showgroups.php?) page[sup]1[/sup]. As of [July 1](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5037395)[sup]2[/sup], that number is 3952, which works out to 162 subscribers at the full rate (roughly – see Note 1 below). Unfortunately, the Forum Leaders page no longer shows the subscriber list, so we won’t be able to answer this question in the future without asking one of the SD staff. **NOTES** **1.** There’s a slight discrepancy between what was shown on the Forum Leaders page and the actual subscriber numbers. IIRC, **Ed Zotti** reported just over 3800 as the official count at the end of the discount period. I don’t know all the reasons for a subscriber to not show on that page, though I noticed that banned subscribers were dropped. **2.** If you suffer from insomnia, the [rest of that thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=263323) would cure you of it right quick. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2004, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-subscribers-have-paid-14-95-to-date/254295/3 "2004-07-09T17:51:31Z")
Waitaminute… We get to _date_, too? And it only costs $14.95 to date? Why didn’t anyone tell me this before? _gets out wallet_ ---
**Author:** ![paperbackwriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@paperbackwriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paperbackwriter)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-subscribers-have-paid-14-95-to-date/254295/4 "2004-07-09T18:51:36Z")
I think it’s going to take more than $14.95 to get any dates out to Bozeman, tho… ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-subscribers-have-paid-14-95-to-date/254295/5 "2004-07-09T19:22:44Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > And it only costs $14.95 to date? Happy ending’s another twenty. ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2004, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-subscribers-have-paid-14-95-to-date/254295/6 "2004-07-11T03:26:33Z")
> [@Earthling](#): > > **2.** If you suffer from insomnia, the [rest of that thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=263323) would cure you of it right quick. On the contrary, I’ve just stayed up another 20 minutes reading it. And I don’t even understand statistics. (Wish I did, though. One more course I should have taken in undergrad but didn’t. Didn’t science cartoonist Larry Gonick do a _Cartoon Guide to Statistics_? I’ll have to look that up someday.) ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2004, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-subscribers-have-paid-14-95-to-date/254295/7 "2004-07-13T00:40:07Z")
Well, [when I asked this question back on May 14](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=256227), the count was about 50. On preview: this would mean that (if **Earthling’s** numbers are correct) in two months, 112 people have ponied up $15 to join. Not too shabby! ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2004, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-subscribers-have-paid-14-95-to-date/254295/8 "2004-07-13T13:06:08Z")
> [@Alan Smithee](#): > > On the contrary, I’ve just stayed up another 20 minutes reading it. And I don’t even understand statistics. (Wish I did, though. One more course I should have taken in undergrad but didn’t. Didn’t science cartoonist Larry Gonick do a _Cartoon Guide to Statistics_? I’ll have to look that up someday.) Here you go: [_The Cartoon Guide to Statistics_](http://www.larrygonick.com/html/pub/books/sci7.html) ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2004, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-subscribers-have-paid-14-95-to-date/254295/9 "2004-07-18T11:35:39Z")
> [@JeffB](#): > > Here you go: [_The Cartoon Guide to Statistics_](http://www.larrygonick.com/html/pub/books/sci7.html) Judging by the cover, I thought that book would be excellent for me, but then, in the description, they started using phrases like _bete noire_ and I knew immediately that it was way out of my league. ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2004, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-subscribers-have-paid-14-95-to-date/254295/10 "2004-07-18T16:36:02Z")
Thanks, **JeffB**. Somehow, I missed the subscription notification until **Freido** posted. And **Freido** , _bete noir_ isn’t a statistics term, it just means problem or source of dread. (I had to look it up, too.) Avoiding a book because it might require you to expand your vocabulay is odd behavior for someone dedicated to fighting ignorance! ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2004, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-subscribers-have-paid-14-95-to-date/254295/11 "2004-07-18T21:59:44Z")
FTR, latest subscription count: 4,005. your humble TubaDiva Administrator ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2004, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-subscribers-have-paid-14-95-to-date/254295/12 "2004-07-18T23:04:13Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > FTR, latest subscription count: 4,005. > > your humble TubaDiva > Administrator Woo hoo! And **Little Ed** ’s condition? ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2004, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-subscribers-have-paid-14-95-to-date/254295/13 "2004-07-18T23:41:00Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > FTR, latest subscription count: 4,005. > > your humble TubaDiva > Administrator I assume this is a total from April to today. So can we assume approximately 3850 people who were already registered before April signed up? ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2004, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-subscribers-have-paid-14-95-to-date/254295/14 "2004-07-19T15:22:25Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > I assume this is a total from April to today. So can we assume approximately 3850 people who were already registered before April signed up? The exact number paid up before the (extended) April deadline is known precisely – it was 3,805. Therefore, as of **TubaDiva’s** most recent post in this thread, (200 + (# of paid members banned since April deadline)) have signed up for $14.95.