# Longest Tenure?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548>\
**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:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2025, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/141 "2025-08-09T02:36:52Z")

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Yeah, but at least we got a rotating selection of Slug Signorino illustrations to enjoy !

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**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2025, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/142 "2025-09-30T21:45:00Z")

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> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> 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.

I found my member number by finding an [old thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-longest-active-dope-membership/571984) in which I posted it. Apparently I’m member #11659, having joined in December 2000.

I commented in that thread that I have been on the board continuously for over a decade…now I’m coming up on 25 years.

> [@Who Has The Longest Active Dope Membership?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-longest-active-dope-membership/571984/73):
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> I’m member #11,659. Nothing particularly notable about that, other than the fact that I have been here continuously for just over a decade. I average about a post per day (which makes this my daily post for today ;)). However, I first read the original Straight Dope book back when it was released in paperback in 1986 or so, and I had an AOL membership in 1994, so I don’t know why it took me so long to find the SDMB online. Apparently, we joined right at the same time, Quasimodem, separated by…

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2025, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/143 "2025-09-30T22:02:34Z")

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I am member #774.

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