# Longest Tenure? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 4, 2025, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548 "2025-01-04T12:17:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/41 "2025-01-05T15:26:08Z")
> [@pjd](#): > > You have **Eutychus** ’s last post/seen dates as April 24, **2025**! > > Sorry ! \< sigh \> ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/42 "2025-01-05T15:39:07Z")
Right. **Table of Old Duffers, Mark IV** (as of January 4, 2025) From that link provided by @Crafter_Man , I found three more who joined before April 30, 1999, and are still active, but weren’t on Ahunter3’s original list. I’ve added them: @Scoobysnax , @ENugent , and @John_Bredin . There were a few more 99ers on that thread, but they’ve not posted/been seen within the past year so haven’t included them. | Doper | Number | Join Date | Last Posted | Last Seen | Status | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | **Ed Zotti** | 6 | February 18, 1999 | August 2, 2024 | December 10, 2024 | Gormless Weenie | | **Monty** | 14 | February 19, 1999 | January 4, 2025 | January 4, 2025 | Straight Dope Science Advisory Board | | **Eutychus** | 22 | February 20, 1999 | April 24, 2024 | April 24, 2024 | Straight Dope Science Advisory Board | | TubaDiva 😥 | 32 | March 10, 1999 | June 28, 2020 | June 28, 2020 | Capo di tutti i capi | | GusNSpot | 33 | March 11, 1999 | July 17, 2020 | June 14, 2020 | Charter Member | | DougBowe | 39 | March 11, 1999 | December 27, 2019 | December 27, 2019 | Guest | | **gotpasswords** | 41 | March 11, 1999 | December 13, 2023 | December 18, 2024 | Charter Member | | **AskNott** | 45 | March 11, 1999 | January 4, 2025 | January 4, 2025 | Charter Member | | PunditLisa | 46 | March 11, 1999 | February 23, 2021 | November 22, 2021 | Member | | **KCB615** | 47 | March 11, 1999 | December 7, 2024 | January 4, 2025 | Charter Member | | **AHunter3** | 66 | March 11, 1999 | January 4, 2025 | January 4, 2025 | Charter Member | | **tomndebb** | 82 | March 12, 1999 | October 13, 2024 | November 7, 2024 | Mod Rocker | | **Whitetho** | 114 | March 12, 1999 | November 23, 2024 | January 4, 2025 | Charter Member | | **Enright3** | 157 | March 14, 1999 | December 22, 2024 | December 22, 2024 | Guest | | **Scoobysnax** | 173 | March 15, 1999 | December 9, 2024 | January 2, 2025 | Guest | | **Jophiel** | 199 | March 15, 1999 | January 3, 1999 | January 4, 1999 | Guest | | Doctor\_Jackson | 215 | March 16, 1999 | October 8, 2019 | October 8, 2019 | Guest | | **Revtim** | 300 | March 20, 1999 | October 28, 2024 | January 4, 2025 | Guest | | **cmkeller** | 366 | March 25, 1999 | March 7, 2024 | March 7, 2024 | Guest | | **Skywatcher** | 387 | March 27, 1999 | January 3, 2025 | January 4, 2025 | Charter Member | | **ENugent** | 411 | March 30, 1999 | August 31, 2024 | October 25, 2024 | Charter Member | | **kunilou [now Clark\_Kent]** | 535 | April 6, 1999 | January 4, 2025 | January 4, 2025 | Charter Member | | **John\_Bredin** | 539 | April 6, 1999 | January 4, 2025 | January 4, 2025 | Guest | | **Crafter\_Man** | 560 | April 8, 1999 | January 4, 2025 | January 4, 2025 | Member | | **RealityChuck** | 630 | April 13, 1999 | January 3, 2025 | January 3, 2025 | Charter Member | | **Czarcasm** | 774 | April 23, 1999 | January 2, 2025 | January 4, 2025 | TIME Magazine’s 2006 Person Of The Year / Chicken of Bristol | | furt | 877 | April 29, 1999 | November 4, 2020 | November 4, 2020 | Guest | | **Motorgirl** | 879 | April 29, 1999 | October 23, 2024 | November 25, 2024 | Charter Member | ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/43 "2025-01-05T15:41:41Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > According to [this](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-posts-than-member-number/750696/52) post, I am member number 560. > > Appreciate your work on this. You’re welcome! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/44 "2025-01-05T16:12:34Z")
Apparently I’m 1233! 🕶 Now if only I could remember how I learnt of the SDMB (I have never had any social media presence… 😲) ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/45 "2025-01-05T16:34:34Z")
> [@glee](#): > > Apparently I’m 1233! 🕶 > > Now if only I could remember how I learnt of the SDMB (I have never had any social media presence… 😲) #5989 since 4/26/2000. I had purchased the Straight Dope book circa 1984. Saw it in a bookstore and it looked interesting enough. Forward to 2000 my brother and I owned a duplex together each living on one side with a shared office space. The book just happened to be on a shelf above the computer prompting both of us to search for the SDMB. I think we still had AOL. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/46 "2025-01-05T16:38:19Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > #5989 since 4/26/2000. Where did you find this number? ---
**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:** [January 5, 2025, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/47 "2025-01-05T16:41:36Z")
Check the thread. It has been posted several times. > [@Longest Tenure?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/9): > > That was part of the prior software, gone now. The old software had tables of data tied together by a userid number. This number was visible on the URL of the user page. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/48 "2025-01-05T16:42:32Z")
I read the thread. Your link says we can’t get that info anymore. > That was part of the prior software, gone now. But @pkbites did. ---
**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:** [January 5, 2025, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/49 "2025-01-05T16:50:19Z")
I did a deep dive into the search engine and found I mentioned I was user # **53243** in the old database. Short of that, there is no way to find your old number I’m aware of. Might be a way to find your user profile under archive.ph, I haven’t tried. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/50 "2025-01-05T17:14:44Z")
Ahem… 3/20 '99 ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/51 "2025-01-05T17:15:14Z")
I’m certain I’ve mentioned my number in one of these types of threads (probably one of the old Zeldar threads that seemed to be info-gathering) at some point but I haven’t been able to find it. However, I did find a workaround. I used google to search for my username (being different before we moved to this board made that slightly easier) and the text “this thread”. My hope was to find a thread, from before we moved here, where I linked to another thread that I posted in. Which I did. Then I could grab the now broken link to the other thread, put it in the wayback machine, hover over my username and get the URL for my profile. Does that make sense? I’m #1478. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/52 "2025-01-05T17:17:34Z")
And it dawned on me that I can now search for that number and figure out if did actually post it somewhere. I did. In a Zeldar thread. If someone wants to pick through it, here it is: > [@Another look at "active users" at SDMB](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-look-at-active-users-at-sdmb/604133): > > Rather than add more complications to the current thread [What happened to some of the more prominent posters?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=632024) which was started 11-19-2011, 10:30 PM by Uncommon Sense – and to which I contributed [this post,](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14489749&postcount=111) [this post,](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14491112&postcount=132) [this post,](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14493031&postcount=140) [and this post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14496746&postcount=147) – I’ve started this thread to investigate (with your assistance) another aspect of the basic issue. (For background, you might wish to look at [Calling Zeldar, or any other statisticians: how many of us are there?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=556041) which was started 03-16-2010, 10:41 AM by… ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/53 "2025-01-05T17:23:00Z")
Here are a couple old threads where Dopers discuss their member numbers: From 2003: [New way to kill 5 minutes at work: How well do you know your SDMB nextdoor neighbors?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-way-to-kill-5-minutes-at-work-how-well-do-you-know-your-sdmb-nextdoor-neighbors/173545) From 2006: [Who are your SD neighbours?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-sd-neighbours/371003) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/54 "2025-01-05T17:41:10Z")
Thanks for all these thread links. Here’s an interesting tidbit of ancient lore. Both the author and the subject are now deceased. RIP. > [@Another look at "active users" at SDMB](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-look-at-active-users-at-sdmb/604133/136): > > He has the lowest user number for a regular member (non-staff). This is referring to user @GusNSpot. Assuming Colibri was correct, **Gus** was in fact the very first ordinary Doper after the admins, etc. had been allowed into the system and trained. Here’s my comment from another who’s oldest, etc., thread from 2016. > [@Who is the oldest member still posting? And what is your number?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-member-still-posting-and-what-is-your-number/750462/25): > > I’m certainly not a low number (39,146), but I’m almost exactly 1/3rd of the way (13,129) to posting past my user number. I figure another 26 years to go at my SDMB lifetime average rate, or more like 8 years at my recent rate. I probably get there if some crisis doesn’t kill me (or the 'Dope) early. I blew the heck out of my 8+ years to 39K post count prediction though. I now have 51K posts almost exactly 9 years after that prediction was made. No practical way to know when I blew past 39146. But it was almost certainly more than a year ago. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/55 "2025-01-05T18:36:06Z")
Okay. **Table of Old Duffers, Mark V** Only includes posters who signed up before April 30, 1999. Active posters are in bold (yes, I could delete the inactive ones as an artifact from AHunter3’s original table, but I’m going to leave them in. I’m not adding any other inactive early 99ers.) “???” means I don’t know the member number. No, I’m not going to update “last post” and “last seen” for posters that have been busy since yesterday. Plus, I’d probably get the year wrong anyway. (I did catch one where I said the last post for one poster was in 2205, so give me a break. 😵‍💫 ) | Doper | Number | Join Date | Last Posted | Last Seen | Status | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | **Ed Zotti** | 6 | February 18, 1999 | August 2, 2024 | December 10, 2024 | Gormless Weenie | | **Monty** | 14 | February 19, 1999 | January 4, 2025 | January 4, 2025 | Straight Dope Science Advisory Board | | **Eutychus** | 22 | February 20, 1999 | April 24, 2024 | April 24, 2024 | Straight Dope Science Advisory Board | | TubaDiva 😥 | 32 | March 10, 1999 | June 28, 2020 | June 28, 2020 | Capo di tutti i capi | | GusNSpot | 33 | March 11, 1999 | July 17, 2020 | June 14, 2020 | Charter Member | | DougBowe | 39 | March 11, 1999 | December 27, 2019 | December 27, 2019 | Guest | | **gotpasswords** | 41 | March 11, 1999 | December 13, 2023 | December 18, 2024 | Charter Member | | **AskNott** | 45 | March 11, 1999 | January 4, 2025 | January 4, 2025 | Charter Member | | PunditLisa | 46 | March 11, 1999 | February 23, 2021 | November 22, 2021 | Member | | **KCB615** | 47 | March 11, 1999 | December 7, 2024 | January 4, 2025 | Charter Member | | **AHunter3** | 66 | March 11, 1999 | January 4, 2025 | January 4, 2025 | Charter Member | | **tomndebb** | 82 | March 12, 1999 | October 13, 2024 | November 7, 2024 | Mod Rocker | | **Whitetho** | 114 | March 12, 1999 | November 23, 2024 | January 4, 2025 | Charter Member | | **Rilchiam** | 127 | March 13, 1999 | January 4, 2025 | January 4, 2025 | Guest | | **Enright3** | 157 | March 14, 1999 | December 22, 2024 | December 22, 2024 | Guest | | **Scoobysnax** | 173 | March 15, 1999 | December 9, 2024 | January 2, 2025 | Guest | | **Jophiel** | 199 | March 15, 1999 | January 3, 1999 | January 4, 1999 | Guest | | **Sauron** | ??? | March 15, 1999 | December 18, 2024 | January 4, 2025 | Guest | | Doctor\_Jackson | 215 | March 16, 1999 | October 8, 2019 | October 8, 2019 | Guest | | **curwin** | ??? | March 16, 1999 | November 26, 2024 | November 26, 2024 | Guest | | **Cervaise** | 251 | March 17, 1999 | January 4, 2025 | January 5, 2025 | Old-timer | | **Revtim** | 300 | March 20, 1999 | October 28, 2024 | January 4, 2025 | Guest | | **Charlie\_Tan** | ??? | March 20, 1999 | January 5, 2025 | January 5, 2025 | Guest | | **Fretful\_Porpentine** | ??? | March 21, 1999 | December 30, 2024 | December 30, 2024 | Charter Member | | **cmkeller** | 366 | March 25, 1999 | March 7, 2024 | March 7, 2024 | Guest | | **Skywatcher** | 387 | March 27, 1999 | January 3, 2025 | January 4, 2025 | Charter Member | | **ENugent** | 411 | March 30, 1999 | August 31, 2024 | October 25, 2024 | Charter Member | | **John\_W.Kennedy** | ??? | April 5, 1999 | February 4, 2024 | April 22, 2024 | Charter Member | | **kunilou [now Clark\_Kent]** | 535 | April 6, 1999 | January 4, 2025 | January 4, 2025 | Charter Member | | **John\_Bredin** | 539 | April 6, 1999 | January 4, 2025 | January 4, 2025 | Guest | | **Chef\_Troy** | ??? | April 6, 1999 | January 14, 2024 | January 20, 2024 | Guest | | **Zyada** | ??? | April 7, 1999 | January 4, 2025 | January 5, 2025 | Guest | | **Crafter\_Man** | 560 | April 8, 1999 | January 4, 2025 | January 4, 2025 | Member | | **RealityChuck** | 630 | April 13, 1999 | January 3, 2025 | January 3, 2025 | Charter Member | | **Greg\_Charles** | ??? | April 18, 1999 | December 25, 2024 | January 5, 2025 | Charter Member | | **Omniscient** | ??? | April 20, 1999 | December 23, 2024 | January 2, 2025 | Charter Member | | **RTFirefly** | ??? | April 20, 1999 | January 5, 2025 | January 5, 2025 | Charter Member | | **Czarcasm** | 774 | April 23, 1999 | January 2, 2025 | January 4, 2025 | TIME Magazine’s 2006 Person Of The Year / Chicken of Bristol | | furt | 877 | April 29, 1999 | November 4, 2020 | November 4, 2020 | Guest | | **Motorgirl** | 879 | April 29, 1999 | October 23, 2024 | November 25, 2024 | Charter Member | I found some new ones to add, having gone through the table of Bill H’s stats that Crafter\_Man pointed out. I did a search of the table for “1999” and got 554 hits. I scrolled through those and added all the ones from before April 30, 1999 that I didn’t already have: @Cervaise @Chef_Troy @curwin @Fretful_Porpentine @Greg_Charles @John_W.Kennedy @Omniscient @Rilchiam @RTFirefly @Sauron Zyada Plus some picky guy from Norway. And yes, I have way too much time on my hands. Why do you ask? Happy New Year, my fellow Dopers! ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/56 "2025-01-05T18:40:39Z")
Apparently Discourse wants us to be social, but not _too_ social, so we can only tag 10 other posters in a thread. So @Zyada, a tag just for you! ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/57 "2025-01-05T19:05:04Z")
Just for the record, I’m #5777 and joined on April 18, 2000 after 4 or 5 months of lurking. ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/58 "2025-01-05T19:53:54Z")
I very pleased to be part of this list! I just barely made the cut, huh? I think my join number was 671, but I may be imagining that. I’m curious how many people there are on this list who, like me, were never part of the original AOL board. I got my CS degree in 1995, so I just sort of fell into the Internet as it was becoming a thing. The only use I had for AOL by 1999 was the free floppy disks. (Yes, I know that no part of that sentence makes any sense to about half of you.) ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/59 "2025-01-05T20:00:10Z")
Cool (for me) since I joined on the same day so I must be within a few of #5777. Close enough for me. Fun to know. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/60 "2025-01-05T20:02:02Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > > [@hajario](#): > > > > I joined in April 2001 and as I recall I just missed out on a four digit user number. … > > I’m from September 2000, and I had a four-digit user number. It was 9xxx, where x represents something more exact. But I would guess that the board rolled over to five digit user numbers sometime later in the fall of 2000. Which means that my memory was very incorrect. I went to the first link from @Crafter_Man a few posts up and found that I’m #14048. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548.md?page=4)