# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2025, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/81 "2025-01-06T18:38:30Z")
_You will be assimilated._ ---
**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 6, 2025, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/82 "2025-01-06T18:52:58Z")
> [@Toxgoddess](#): > > I’ve been a Guest all this time so I guess I don’t appear on any lists. If you have a user name you’re on _the_ one and only list of all users. Since you’re known as @Toxgoddess you have a join date. Which is all it takes. ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2025, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/83 "2025-01-06T19:08:59Z")
👍 _“Like” to make Discourse happy…_ ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2025, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/84 "2025-01-06T23:00:19Z")
This sucks for me. In the first list,. which included posters who are no longer active, I was #20. Then the inactive posters were eliminated and I was #14. Now that other posters have been added, I’m #24! Clearly this is going the wrong way for me. My (formerly kunilou) original ID number was 535. That hasn’t changed in any of the lists, and as far as I’m concerned, I’m #535, I’ve always been #535, and I’ll always be #535. ---
**Author:** ![MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ec9cab/32.png) [@MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MW_Degen_Gamblr)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/85 "2025-01-07T01:00:48Z")
You know what? This is the first time I’ve heard the word “tenure” outside of a college campus. Midwest Degenerate Gambler -I probably have the shortest tenure as a semi-regular? ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/86 "2025-01-07T12:18:27Z")
I found this board because I was active on the Cecil Adams Usenet group and I joined in 1999 to post after lurking for a while because my New Year’s resolution that year was to be more socially active and I felt that counted. I remember this clearly even though it was long ago. I have posted since then with maybe some breaks. However I have never been a paid member so I don’t know if I even have a member number as such. ---
**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 7, 2025, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/87 "2025-01-07T12:19:52Z")
Member Number was a database incremental number. So if you joined before Discourse, you had a number. If you joined in 1999, you had a low number. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/88 "2025-01-07T12:38:01Z")
I found this: Joined Jul 5, 1999 I had just turned 16 but felt I could weigh in with heavyweights on this site. I found out that I couldn’t! Then I found BreakupGirl and disappeared from here for a long time because, let’s face it, teenage girls LOVE talking about romance and relationships, and I was very good at it. LOL ---
**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 7, 2025, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/89 "2025-01-07T14:10:53Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > So if you joined before Discourse, you had a number. If you joined in 1999, you had a low number. [I am not a number! I am a free man!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW-bFGzNMXw&t=42s) ---
**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 7, 2025, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/90 "2025-01-07T14:16:27Z")
I was thinking more this: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/fI4bRqjobbw/hqdefault.jpg "The Simpsons - The Stonecutters song") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI4bRqjobbw&t=22s) ---
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/91 "2025-01-09T15:03:34Z")
I’m still around, but danged if I can figure out how to see my number. As I recall, it was something like 174. I wasn’t an AOLer, but I was a fan of the book(s) starting in the late 80s, and joined this site once I knew about it. ---
**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 9, 2025, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/92 "2025-01-09T16:07:53Z")
As pointed out upthread, everyone’s number died with vBulletin. Unless you’re mentioned in a post from the Olde Dayes that includes a partial user roster you’re out of luck. ---
**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 9, 2025, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/93 "2025-01-09T16:26:16Z")
Or find a, now non-working, link to an old post, put the link into the wayback machine, and you can get the numbers from everyone that posted to the thread. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/94 "2025-01-10T18:34:57Z")
There was also another thread somewhere that asked “Who’s your neighbor?” Meaning “What user numbers are immediately before and after yours?” That has some additional info, but I haven’t been able to put my hands on it. ---
**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 10, 2025, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/95 "2025-01-10T18:49:53Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > but I haven’t been able to put my hands on it. If you mean you haven’t been able to find the “neighbor” thread, there are two of those historical threads cited in post 53 of this thread: > [@Longest Tenure?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/53): > > 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:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/96 "2025-01-10T18:58:57Z")
I know for sure I’m not in the running because I joined in early January 2003. But I found a file on an old laptop where at some point I had made a list of usernames that joined the same day I did. From that file I was able to dig up my user number, 28791. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/97 "2025-01-12T05:27:49Z")
I see that **Czarcasm** joined abour five months before me, and he’s still posting, so I’m clearly not the longest time active poster. I joined as **javaman** but had my handle changed to my current one in the early 2000s. But maybe I’m in the top ten? ---
**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 12, 2025, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/98 "2025-01-12T13:22:48Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > But maybe I’m in the top ten? Ref the roster @Northern_Piper provided in post #55 of this thread, @Czarcasm is #33 on the active poster roster. By that time membership was growing quickly, ~100 per week, so in the 5 months = 20 weeks between him and you at least a thousand people joined, maybe even 2000. How many are still active is a darn good question, but from that roster it seems like very roughly 1 in 50 of those old posters are still active. Which suggests 20 to 40 active posters between he and you. Making you roughly #55 to 75 of current active posters. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/99 "2025-01-12T20:10:25Z")
If I haven’t said so before, or recently, I appreciate the efforts to maintain a list. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/100 "2025-01-14T18:28:03Z")
This was posted in the 2016 thread, but I’ll mention it here, too. Ranger Jeff has posted relatively recently. He is #29 under his old id, which they never synced up with his new one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548.md?page=6)