Thanks for all these thread links. Here’s an interesting tidbit of ancient lore. Both the author and the subject are now deceased. RIP.
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.
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.