# Is this new?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-new/357823>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [May 22, 2006, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-new/357823 "2006-05-22T21:35:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-new/357823/1 "2006-05-22T21:35:21Z")

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From the bottom of the main page:

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> Threads: 324,528, Posts: 6,685,391, Members: 59,106  
> Welcome to our newest member, armakuni

I don’t remember this being there but I don’t scroll down to the bottom very often. I certainly don’t remember the newest member thing. Does it show new guests or only paying members?

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**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-new/357823/2 "2006-05-22T21:44:08Z")

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Depends on what you mean by new. If you consider internal combustion engines new, then yeah, its new. Considering it says “newest member”, I doubt it means “guest”. But what do I know?

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**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-new/357823/3 "2006-05-22T22:04:20Z")

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It’s not new, and it does announce guests (as clicking on the name of the newest member will demonstrate).

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**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-new/357823/4 "2006-05-22T22:06:23Z")

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Those counts have been there longer than I have.

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**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-new/357823/5 "2006-05-22T22:14:16Z")

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> [@ultrafilter](#):
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> Those counts have been there longer than I have.

I sort of remember the counts but not the welcome newest member thing. Not on this board anyway. I have noticed it plenty of times on other boards. Maybe I’m just not that observant.

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**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, 2006, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-new/357823/6 "2006-05-23T00:39:15Z")

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It used to be at the top of the page and then got moved to the bottom at some point.