# I am not a number... **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 8, 2011, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-not-a-number/605546 "2011-12-08T19:33:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2011, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-not-a-number/605546/21 "2011-12-09T08:56:25Z")
Wrong thread ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2011, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-not-a-number/605546/22 "2011-12-09T13:55:45Z")
I was just looking through who registered around the same time I did, May 1999. Very few are still around (hi **voguevixen**!); most only posted a time or two or not at all. Some had a couple hundred posts and then vanished in the ether around 2000. Except — hey. Many many people show … > [@](#): > > Last Activity: 04-28-2000 07:05 PM I assume this is a result of some great board upheaval something along the line, where things like this got reset. But it’s interesting if only to prove the adage, “never trust statistics.” (Or, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.” — Samuel Clemons and/or Disraeli) ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-not-a-number/605546/23 "2011-12-10T01:42:14Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > I was just looking through who registered around the same time I did, May 1999. Very few are still around (hi **voguevixen**!); most only posted a time or two or not at all. Some had a couple hundred posts and then vanished in the ether around 2000. > > Except — hey. Many many people show … > > I assume this is a result of some great board upheaval something along the line, where things like this got reset. Yep. That’s when we went from UBB to vBulletin. Much did NOT transfer over. > [@Ellen Cherry](#): > > But it’s interesting if only to prove the adage, “never trust statistics.” (Or, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.” — Samuel Clemons and/or Disraeli) It’s “Clemens.” And he, Mark Twain, ascribed it incorrectly to Disraeli. We actually don’t know just “who” invented it, we just know who didn’t. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-not-a-number/605546/24 "2011-12-10T03:26:05Z")
Sheesh, I’m a '99er and I’m 2934. Oct of that year, Almost 3,000 from May to Oct?? Wow. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-not-a-number/605546.md?page=1)