# I let my subscription expire for a few hours. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 21, 2012, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-let-my-subscription-expire-for-a-few-hours/622619 "2012-05-21T16:53:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Backwater_Under_Duck)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-let-my-subscription-expire-for-a-few-hours/622619/1 "2012-05-21T16:53:39Z")
Can I get my charter member designation back? Please. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2012, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-let-my-subscription-expire-for-a-few-hours/622619/2 "2012-05-21T18:38:27Z")
Yes. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-let-my-subscription-expire-for-a-few-hours/622619/3 "2012-05-21T23:36:01Z")
Me, too. Pretty please, with a chocolate truffle on top. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Backwater_Under_Duck)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-let-my-subscription-expire-for-a-few-hours/622619/4 "2012-05-21T23:57:13Z")
Thanks. A bunch.🆒 ---
**Author:** ![MilTan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@MilTan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MilTan)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-let-my-subscription-expire-for-a-few-hours/622619/5 "2012-05-22T05:02:56Z")
I was just about to post a message here saying the same thing – I think I was out of commission for about a day. I’d be most in your debt if I could get my "Charter"ness back, too 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-let-my-subscription-expire-for-a-few-hours/622619/6 "2012-05-22T05:10:32Z")
> [@MilTan](#): > > I was just about to post a message here saying the same thing – I think I was out of commission for about a day. I’d be most in your debt if I could get my "Charter"ness back, too 🙂 How about me too? Pleeeeeaaaasse? ---
**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:** [May 22, 2012, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-let-my-subscription-expire-for-a-few-hours/622619/7 "2012-05-22T10:34:54Z")
All should be right with the world now. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-let-my-subscription-expire-for-a-few-hours/622619/8 "2012-05-22T14:17:38Z")
What are the qualifications for charter membership, anyway? I mean, I’ve been a member here for something like 11 of the past 12 years. Do my lapses in membership disqualify me? ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-let-my-subscription-expire-for-a-few-hours/622619/9 "2012-05-22T15:32:15Z")
Um…crap. :smack: Yesterday was my birthday and I forgot to reup in all the festivities. Can you fit in one more? ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-let-my-subscription-expire-for-a-few-hours/622619/10 "2012-05-22T16:13:56Z")
Nope, not IP banned, just gone. Had no idea I was still a member. Wonder whether I’m still ‘charter’? -Nope, guestified. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-let-my-subscription-expire-for-a-few-hours/622619/11 "2012-05-22T16:15:31Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > What are the qualifications for charter membership, anyway? You had to sign up when the boards first went Pay-to-Post and maintained your membership since then. ---
**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:** [May 22, 2012, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-let-my-subscription-expire-for-a-few-hours/622619/12 "2012-05-22T17:39:23Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > What are the qualifications for charter membership, anyway? I mean, I’ve been a member here for something like 11 of the past 12 years. Do my lapses in membership disqualify me? Looks like you didn’t start being a subscriber until 2011, though – the Charter Membership offer was made one time. If you didn’t catch the brass ring in 2004 Charter Membership is not available to you. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-let-my-subscription-expire-for-a-few-hours/622619/13 "2012-05-22T17:43:19Z")
Thank you! 🙂 ---
**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:** [May 22, 2012, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-let-my-subscription-expire-for-a-few-hours/622619/14 "2012-05-22T17:44:56Z")
And Happy Belated Birthday, pravnik! ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-let-my-subscription-expire-for-a-few-hours/622619/15 "2012-05-22T21:49:27Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > Looks like you didn’t start being a subscriber until 2011, though – the Charter Membership offer was made one time. If you didn’t catch the brass ring in 2004 Charter Membership is not available to you. And if you did catch it, then lapsed, you had a chance to re-up a couple of years ago. That’s how I got my groove back. ---
**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:** [May 22, 2012, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-let-my-subscription-expire-for-a-few-hours/622619/16 "2012-05-22T21:53:07Z")
Oh, if you were a very special Charter Member and you let it get away from you, you _might_\*\* have another chance to climb those golden stairs. (I haz the key to the gate. But only for a limited time.) If you are so afflicted and are ready to make things right, send me an email. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2012, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-let-my-subscription-expire-for-a-few-hours/622619/17 "2012-05-23T02:13:40Z")
Half-joking, but could one in theory pay retroactively for all the years they’ve been here but didn’t actually pay to post and then get Charter Membership? That would be worth the 80ish bucks to me. Also would like to say it’s very nice of you Tuba that you’re cuttin’ some people some slack. ---
**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:** [May 23, 2012, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-let-my-subscription-expire-for-a-few-hours/622619/18 "2012-05-23T03:45:54Z")
Sorry to say offer only applies to people who took us up on the original Charter Member plan back in the day. If you didn’t catch it then you can’t go back now. However, that doesn’t mean that you can’t be a subscribing Member, we can use the support. It’s subscriptions and ad revenues that keep things going on here. I appreciate that this means something to folks and if they lost it and I’m able to help them get it back, ain’t nothing but a good thing. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2012, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-let-my-subscription-expire-for-a-few-hours/622619/19 "2012-05-23T04:21:03Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > Half-joking, but could one in theory pay retroactively for all the years they’ve been here but didn’t actually pay to post and then get Charter Membership? That would be worth the 80ish bucks to me. > > Also would like to say it’s very nice of you Tuba that you’re cuttin’ some people some slack. You could pay for a custom title and make it say anything you want. You could be our first Supreme Ultimate Member. ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2012, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-let-my-subscription-expire-for-a-few-hours/622619/20 "2012-05-23T04:52:24Z")
Thank you Ms. Diva. You’re the bestest as usual. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-let-my-subscription-expire-for-a-few-hours/622619.md?page=2)