We’re going to the Virgin Islands, where all the geeks of the world feel right at home.
Hey, who let all the plebes in?
Room 101, at the Virgin Islands this year! Wohooo! I’d better pack my multicoloured shorts and squid-repellant.
I reupped yesterday or so. I suppose the cash-flow at the Chicago Reader is weighted toward this time of year.
Didn’t you get a “just a friendly reminder” e-mail from Cecil and his minions? I was planning to re-subscribe anyway, but that personal invitation clinched the deal!
No personal email came to me.
I post occasionally; I’m still debating whether to renew. I need to defend my title in fantasy football…
…and if I go, will a certain person miss me?
Sorry to revise this, but I really do want to know how a Charter Member differs from a humble “Member Only” like myself. Can’t find anything in the FAQ.
This board use to be free. Any member who has paid continually since the board went to requiring a paid subscription to post is a “Charter Member.” We are the cool people who renew for half price ($7.49). People who subscribed after this are just Members and pay full price.
I always figure I am getting my $.02 worth a day on this Board.
Mbossa answered in Post 12 .
Test post to see what I actually am…
…ah poo. At least I’m still good lookin’ 
Here’s a hunka hunka member love!
Although you joined in 2001 and the “pay-to-post” requirement only kicked in three years ago, you either submitted the subscription fee after the “Charter Member” deadline had passed, or you let your membership lapse at some point before rejoining. If neither of these is the case, your status is in error, and you should contact the administrators so that you can renew at the $7.48 per year Charter Member rate.
Incidentally, a Charter Member is not listed as such if he/she rates an even more prestigious description, such as “Administrator”, “Moderator”, or “SDSAB” (the last of which stands for “Straight Dope Science Advisory Board”, and denotes someone who has “assisted” Cecil in researching or writing articles, or has otherwise performed noteworthily meritorious service to the cause of fighting ignorance). So all Charter Members are charter members, but not all charter members are Charter Members.
On preview, I see that others have already answered the question, but my post expands on their points, so I’m not editing, even though I’ve enjoyed exercising that option on other occasions.
And you answered me. I must have been drunker than I thought the other night.
Wait, you mean I’ll never achieve Charter Member status (it’s the $7.48 subscription rate that really counts), no matter how long and how continuously I re-up?
Well, I’m not cool, I’m not good-looking, but at least I still have a big. . . . pair of eyeglasses. So there.
My personal invitation got filtered into my junk mail folder, which I happened to check for the first time in a month or two yesterday. Otherwise it would’ve taken this thread to remind me.
Not sure if anyone would notice my disappearance, though.