# Is the SDMB East-Coast heavy? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 29, 2008, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992 "2008-05-29T05:57:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Polerius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d78d45/32.png) [@Polerius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polerius)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992/1 "2008-05-29T05:57:20Z")
I’m on the West Coast and every night when I log in to read the SDMB, I see many, if not most, peoples’ usernames with the dark (not-logged-in) circle next to them and few green (logged-in) circles. Does anyone know the distribution of people in different timezones on the SDMB? What timezone are you in? ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992/2 "2008-05-29T06:05:34Z")
East Coast, but I stay up Late. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_fight_the_hypothetical)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992/3 "2008-05-29T06:09:13Z")
West. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992/4 "2008-05-29T06:44:27Z")
Sure. I’m on the east coast. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992/5 "2008-05-29T06:53:15Z")
I’m on the West Coast - of the Caspian Sea ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992/6 "2008-05-29T10:15:21Z")
Huh, I thought you were talking about states of mind, not physical location. A friend of mine from the East Coast moved to California once. He happened to run into a fellow tenant descending the staircase in their apartment building. To hear my friend tell the tale, a look of stupefied wonderment was shining from his face. “Hey!” he said to my friend. “I gotta ask you something - do you, like, you know, READ? Because… I just, well, for the first time, I just … read a book, and it was SO COOL.” I’ve been living in fear of of California ever since. And I hope the legions of Dopers who reside in California will forgive me for sharing this tale. Each and every one of you is making California safer for the rest of us, I have no doubt. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992/7 "2008-05-29T11:00:16Z")
Well, I am on the east coast and I confess that I \*am \*a little heavy, but man, it is just rude to point it out to me! 😛 East coast here. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992/8 "2008-05-29T11:06:57Z")
[QUOTE=Polerius] What timezone are you in? [/QUOTE] East Coast- I usualy quit posting around 11 pm, my time. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992/9 "2008-05-29T13:13:51Z")
I’m slightly wester than **Loaded.** Does that help wot?? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992/10 "2008-05-29T13:29:06Z")
Eastern time zone, but I post from work, so I’m almost always off the boards by 6 p.m. Eastern. I rarely sign on from home during the week. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992/11 "2008-05-29T13:49:45Z")
Isn’t there a map floating around in a thread here somewhere? I entered my location on it just the other day… ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992/12 "2008-05-29T13:51:35Z")
Central time zone. I post primarily from work from 7:00 AM-3:00 central time I’m on at home at various times, primarily weekends. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992/13 "2008-05-29T14:13:09Z")
Eastern Time Zone checking in. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992/14 "2008-05-29T14:23:39Z")
Sadly, [Alexa.com](http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/straightdope.com) only breaks it down by country, not time zones or states. I don’t think a real answer is available so I will just add a single piece of data. Eastern Standard Time in New Jersey. Jim ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992/15 "2008-05-29T14:31:06Z")
_throws up gang sign_ East coast. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992/16 "2008-05-29T14:31:18Z")
We **had** a map, once upon a time. IIRC, it showed that overall we were fairly well distributed across the country. Of course, there are more posters in New York than there are in North Dakota, but you get the idea. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992/17 "2008-05-29T14:50:15Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] We **had** a map, once upon a time. IIRC, it showed that overall we were fairly well distributed across the country. Of course, there are more posters in New York than there are in North Dakota, but you get the idea. [/QUOTE] Were you thinking of the Frapper one? I think the original Frapper map is defunct. By google accident I found this one instead: [http://www.frappr.com/sdmb/map](http://www.frappr.com/sdmb/map). ---
**Author:** ![ignis\_glaciesque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f8ce5/32.png) [@ignis\_glaciesque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ignis_glaciesque)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992/18 "2008-05-29T15:09:52Z")
West coast of Florida, which makes me a sort of wacky East Coaster. But isn’t the United States East-Coast-heavy anyways? We got the whole corridor from Washington to Boston; that’s gotta represent a decent chunk of our population right there. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992/19 "2008-05-29T15:14:23Z")
[QUOTE=John DiFool] Isn’t there a map floating around in a thread here somewhere? I entered my location on it just the other day… [/QUOTE] There is a MMP map that **beebs** keeps- was it that one? ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992/20 "2008-05-29T15:17:07Z")
East Coast, but I have been known to post in every conceivable daypart, due chiefly to insomnia. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992.md?page=2)