# How many veteran Dopers among our 32,000 plus?

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**Created:** [March 18, 2003, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-veteran-dopers-among-our-32-000-plus/162187 "2003-03-18T02:29:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lorenzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4da419/32.png) [@Lorenzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lorenzo)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-veteran-dopers-among-our-32-000-plus/162187/1 "2003-03-18T02:29:28Z")

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YMMV, but I’d estimate anyone with more than 2,000 posts at the SDMB and at least 6 years (or however far back such records are kept, whichever is shorter) posting experience would qualify as a veteran poster.

My UWAG is fewer than 250.

Better definitions of “Veteran SDMB Poster” are warmly welcomed, as are other WAG’s and correct answers.

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**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-veteran-dopers-among-our-32-000-plus/162187/2 "2003-03-18T03:03:30Z")

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There were VERY few people around 6 years ago that are still here.

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**Author:** ![Wearia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Wearia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wearia)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-veteran-dopers-among-our-32-000-plus/162187/3 "2003-03-18T05:23:07Z")

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I’m pretty sure \*\* Lynn, Monty, Ed, Cecil \*\* and about a dozen others are from way back in the AOL board days.

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**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-veteran-dopers-among-our-32-000-plus/162187/4 "2003-03-18T06:23:05Z")

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You are not a veteran unless you’ve been blindfolded by masked men, drove into the desert, thrown out of the car, set on fire, and left for dead. Then when you wander back to civilization, you can claim the title.

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**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:** [March 18, 2003, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-veteran-dopers-among-our-32-000-plus/162187/5 "2003-03-18T12:28:00Z")

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I was in the U.S.A.F.  
Does that count? 😃

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**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:** [March 18, 2003, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-veteran-dopers-among-our-32-000-plus/162187/6 "2003-03-18T12:59:38Z")

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Now unless you were posting from a C-47.

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**Author:** ![Lorenzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4da419/32.png) [@Lorenzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lorenzo)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-veteran-dopers-among-our-32-000-plus/162187/7 "2003-03-18T23:35:30Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Czarcasm \*  
> \*\*I was in the U.S.A.F.  
> Does that count? 😃 \*\*

Yes, yes it does. With an upper case “V,” though.