Longest Tenure?

[Northern_Piper]

@pjd

You have Eutychus’s last post/seen dates as April 24, 2025 !

Sorry !

< sigh >

[Northern_Piper]

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

[Northern_Piper]

@Crafter_Man

According to this post, I am member number 560.

Appreciate your work on this.

You’re welcome!

[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… )

[pkbites]

@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.

[Whack-a-Mole]

@pkbites

#5989 since 4/26/2000.

Where did you find this number?

[What_Exit]

Check the thread. It has been posted several times.

Longest Tenure?

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.

[Whack-a-Mole]

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.

[What_Exit]

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.

[Charlie_Tan]

Ahem…

3/20 '99

[Joey_P]

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.

[Joey_P]

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

Rather than add more complications to the current thread What happened to some of the more prominent posters? which was started 11-19-2011, 10:30 PM by Uncommon Sense – and to which I contributed this post, this post, this post, and this post – 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? which was started 03-16-2010, 10:41 AM by…

[Crafter_Man]

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?

From 2006:
Who are your SD neighbours?

[LSLGuy]

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

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?

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.

[Northern_Piper]

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!

[Northern_Piper]

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!

[Qadgop_the_Mercotan]

Just for the record, I’m #5777 and joined on April 18, 2000 after 4 or 5 months of lurking.

[Greg_Charles]

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.)

[Whack-a-Mole]

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.

[hajario]

@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.