# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 54
**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. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548)._