# Is my account free? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 7, 2007, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-account-free/414802 "2007-08-07T22:40:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-account-free/414802/1 "2007-08-07T22:40:39Z")
Is my account free? I do not recall paying for the straight dope in years. I was gone for a while at which point I had let my account lapse. I think I don’t even have the account I would have signed up with. As much as I enjoy the notion that the internet just opens up for me with glitches that just so happen to work in my favor, I shouldn’t be accepting services I did not pay the proper amount for. ---
**Author:** ![Amblydoper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Amblydoper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amblydoper)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-account-free/414802/2 "2007-08-07T23:52:04Z")
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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-account-free/414802/3 "2007-08-07T23:57:17Z")
[QUOTE=mswas] I was gone for a while at which point I had let my account lapse. [/QUOTE] When? A list of your last 750 posts only goes back to 06-07-2007. ---
**Author:** ![zelie\_zelerton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/59ef9b/32.png) [@zelie\_zelerton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zelie_zelerton)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-account-free/414802/4 "2007-08-08T00:07:52Z")
[QUOTE=Squink] When? A list of your last 750 posts only goes back to 06-07-2007. [/QUOTE] Yes, that’s because its only the last 750 posts! Yours does the same. Although the link says ‘view all posts’ the software is set up so that admins can limit the number of posts seen. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-account-free/414802/5 "2007-08-08T00:37:35Z")
[QUOTE=zelie zelerton] Yes, that’s because… [/QUOTE] Hence the question ‘When?’ The gap is invisible via the search function. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-account-free/414802/6 "2007-08-08T00:45:17Z")
This thread is better suited for **ATMB**. I’ll move it for you. **Cajun Man** for the SDMB ---
**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:** [August 8, 2007, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-account-free/414802/7 "2007-08-08T00:54:05Z")
Click on UserCP and then Paid Subscriptions. It will tell you when you last upped and when you are due to expire. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2007, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-account-free/414802/8 "2007-08-08T15:23:10Z")
[QUOTE=mswas] Is my account free? I do not recall paying for the straight dope in years. I was gone for a while at which point I had let my account lapse. I think I don’t even have the account I would have signed up with. As much as I enjoy the notion that the internet just opens up for me with glitches that just so happen to work in my favor, I shouldn’t be accepting services I did not pay the proper amount for. [/QUOTE] This is odd, you’re right. Please go resubscribe when you have a chance, let’s get this corrected. Thanks for coming forward. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-account-free/414802/9 "2007-08-08T16:43:25Z")
[QUOTE=Squink] Hence the question ‘When?’ The gap is invisible via the search function. [/QUOTE] A look at “Find Threads Started By” shows 9/01 ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-account-free/414802/10 "2007-08-08T23:35:10Z")
This is my 4,864th post. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-account-free/414802/11 "2007-08-08T23:49:53Z")
The same thing happened with **Xploder**. I seem to remember the explanation at the time was that during some board glitch the admins had to manually change his user group and that while users in this group were titled “Member” it wasn’t the same “Member” group that the software must now sweep through to check on subscriptions. Can’t find the thread though. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-account-free/414802/12 "2007-08-09T06:02:43Z")
[QUOTE=TubaDiva] This is odd, you’re right. Please go resubscribe when you have a chance, let’s get this corrected. Thanks for coming forward. [/QUOTE] FWIW, mine was the same way. I reupped anyway, but I could post without doing so. . ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-account-free/414802/13 "2007-08-09T23:06:16Z")
I believe creatures such as these are known as “Daywalkers”. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2007, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-account-free/414802/14 "2007-08-10T03:37:24Z")
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