# New way to kill 5 minutes at work: How well do you know your SDMB nextdoor neighbors? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 6, 2003, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-way-to-kill-5-minutes-at-work-how-well-do-you-know-your-sdmb-nextdoor-neighbors/173545 "2003-05-06T23:41:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-way-to-kill-5-minutes-at-work-how-well-do-you-know-your-sdmb-nextdoor-neighbors/173545/1 "2003-05-06T23:41:18Z")
A long time back, with nothing better to do while I babysat the server during an upgrade, I decided to fiddle around on the SDMB. While I was humming Bob Seger’s “I Feel Like A Number” to myself, I came up with the idea of googling my member ID# (20128). It turned out to be a crappy idea…the only thing that came up for me was some dog food lot number. I posted it and the thread died a very quick death. Well, here it is upgrade time once again. In the interest of originality, instead of once again googling my 5-digit number, I decided to check on my neighbors. Ho hum: This was as bad an idea as the google-thang. It turns out my [neighbor to the south, Aliyah613 (#20127)](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=20127) has but one post about mastubation while my [url=]neighbor to the north, cricketnap (#20129) has yet to post since registering back on the same day I did 3/14/02. Well the 2nd registration actually: the first few hundred posts & original screen name were lost in the great hampster rebellion of 2002 So tell us great time-wasters…Got a couple minutes to kill? 1. What are your neighbors like? 2. Have you ever seen any of their posts & not even realized they came aboard mere minutes before ot after you did? Just wondering…and watching the clock before I dart outta here. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-way-to-kill-5-minutes-at-work-how-well-do-you-know-your-sdmb-nextdoor-neighbors/173545/2 "2003-05-06T23:53:43Z")
To the south, ladies and gennulmun, I present the wonderful [desdinova](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?action=getinfo&userid=12840). Love ya kid, love ya work… actually I don’t remember seeing you around, but I’ll keep an eye out. My neighbourly northerner is [Bad Karma](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?action=getinfo&userid=12842), who I’ve also never seen, but with a post count of 3 in two years and a bit, t’aint surprising. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-way-to-kill-5-minutes-at-work-how-well-do-you-know-your-sdmb-nextdoor-neighbors/173545/3 "2003-05-07T00:00:27Z")
How do you figure out your member id? ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-way-to-kill-5-minutes-at-work-how-well-do-you-know-your-sdmb-nextdoor-neighbors/173545/4 "2003-05-07T00:15:56Z")
8477 - msohn - never posted 8479 - answerme - 2 posts in the first 3 days, then none Then there’s me… ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-way-to-kill-5-minutes-at-work-how-well-do-you-know-your-sdmb-nextdoor-neighbors/173545/5 "2003-05-07T00:15:58Z")
Actually, this is quite interesting. It’s a way of finding out how many lurkers and abandoned accounts there are. To do my whole “street” of two year-old members, for example: **Siegfried** 141 posts, 0.17 per day. **Croniac** 1 post, 0.00 per day. **alex\_arg** 99 posts, 0.12 per day. **Speranza** 2 posts, 0.00 per day. **desdinova** 136 posts, 0.17 per day. _Myself_ **bad karma** 3 posts, 0.00 per day. **shangood** 1 post, 0.00 per day. **skyisgrey** **Homebrew** is the only guy I’ve even heard of (cool to have him as a neighbour too). **World Eater** it’s the last set of digits in your profile URL. 2 posts, 0.00 per day. **Homebrew** 2707 posts, 3.33 per day. **Redsland** 12 posts, 0.01 per day. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-way-to-kill-5-minutes-at-work-how-well-do-you-know-your-sdmb-nextdoor-neighbors/173545/6 "2003-05-07T00:16:50Z")
Yee-hah! My number is very popular - over 12,000 Google hits. I found stock numbers for rosewood-handled knives, [mail-order brides](http://www.allforeignbrides.com/member24/32425.html), and a whole lot of stuff from [Bonifay, Florida](http://www.mylocal.com/us/zips/32425.shtml) My mute neighbor to the [south](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=32424) shows up as an old steam locomotive as well as another mail-order bride and city in Florida. To the [north](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=32426), yet another knife, bride and small-sounding town in Florida. Not sure if I’ve seen anything from birdgirl. Interscape has yet to say anything. Dang… I wanted to be the train… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-way-to-kill-5-minutes-at-work-how-well-do-you-know-your-sdmb-nextdoor-neighbors/173545/7 "2003-05-07T00:17:01Z")
Stuffed up the formatting there. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-way-to-kill-5-minutes-at-work-how-well-do-you-know-your-sdmb-nextdoor-neighbors/173545/8 "2003-05-07T00:19:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by World Eater \* > \*\*How do you figure out your member id? \*\* Find anything you’ve posted, and click the profile button under your post. Your user number will be the tail of the url. ---
**Author:** ![Melandry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Melandry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melandry)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-way-to-kill-5-minutes-at-work-how-well-do-you-know-your-sdmb-nextdoor-neighbors/173545/9 "2003-05-07T00:24:45Z")
#21921-[mullaman](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=21921)- never posted, but at least he filled out his profile. #21922-Me! #21923-[Vaioman](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=21923)- 68 posts. Perhaps learning that I’m his neighbor will get him to delurk and say hi! As part of the trend, maybe I should change my user name to **Melandryman**. Or not. 😃 We all registered on May 4th, 2002. My one year mark on the SDMB passed and I didn’t even notice! ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-way-to-kill-5-minutes-at-work-how-well-do-you-know-your-sdmb-nextdoor-neighbors/173545/10 "2003-05-07T00:29:39Z")
[Chupacabra](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?action=getinfo&userid=7584), 106 posts, from the Land of the Lost. and… [Rafaqat](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?action=getinfo&userid=7586). Never posted. And in between them is me, with 2858 posts. _sigh_ Which one has the addictive personality? ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-way-to-kill-5-minutes-at-work-how-well-do-you-know-your-sdmb-nextdoor-neighbors/173545/11 "2003-05-07T00:30:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gotpasswords \* > \*\*Find anything you’ve posted, and click the profile button under your post. Your user number will be the tail of the url. \*\* Or, The way I found mine was to call Cecil directly at 1-800-GOT-MILK and he looked it up for me. ---
**Author:** ![Slainte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Slainte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slainte)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-way-to-kill-5-minutes-at-work-how-well-do-you-know-your-sdmb-nextdoor-neighbors/173545/12 "2003-05-07T00:30:57Z")
Both of my neighbors appear to be lurkers - neither has a single post after more than a year. **CKskier** to the North and **Turner34** to the South ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-way-to-kill-5-minutes-at-work-how-well-do-you-know-your-sdmb-nextdoor-neighbors/173545/13 "2003-05-07T00:31:45Z")
Thanks all. #17885 - mlerose 110 (0.19 posts per day) * * * #17887 - coalqueen 0 posts Looks like I have quiet neighbors ---
**Author:** ![Aceospades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Aceospades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aceospades)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-way-to-kill-5-minutes-at-work-how-well-do-you-know-your-sdmb-nextdoor-neighbors/173545/14 "2003-05-07T00:37:30Z")
once you find out your #, how do you find your neighbors? ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-way-to-kill-5-minutes-at-work-how-well-do-you-know-your-sdmb-nextdoor-neighbors/173545/15 "2003-05-07T00:39:42Z")
#1779 **dougie\_monty** 3793 (2.72 posts per day) and #1781 **rocco** 3 posts I’m smack dab in the middle in terms of posting numbers. ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-way-to-kill-5-minutes-at-work-how-well-do-you-know-your-sdmb-nextdoor-neighbors/173545/16 "2003-05-07T00:43:02Z")
[#8588: **Boots**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=8588) is my numerical neighbor to the north. As of this writing: only 57 posts and nothing since 3-21-2001. [#8590: **SuZQRyche**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=8590) is my numerical neighbor to the south. As of this writing: only 9 posts, and nothing since 8-22-2000. Like many others in this thread so far, I’m sandwiched between some very low post counts. ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-way-to-kill-5-minutes-at-work-how-well-do-you-know-your-sdmb-nextdoor-neighbors/173545/17 "2003-05-07T00:45:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Aceospades \* > \*\*once you find out your #, how do you find your neighbors? \*\* Just backspace over the number at the end of the URL and add or subtract to get the neighbor’s profiles. Like my number is 3309, I just go to the address bar and to the end of the URL, backspace over the 09 and manually type in 08 and 10 - there’s my neighbors! I am #3309. #3308 is [OReality](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=3308), posted 3 times and was never heard from again. #3310 is [Edlyn](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=3310), a name I recoginze and who is still posting as of recently. ---
**Author:** ![Caught\_Work](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Caught\_Work](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caught_Work)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-way-to-kill-5-minutes-at-work-how-well-do-you-know-your-sdmb-nextdoor-neighbors/173545/18 "2003-05-07T00:47:02Z")
I be 20902 with 850 posts at 2.14 per day. On the left we have **Turner34** who has done nothing, nada, no posts, zilch, bugger all. On the right presents **welloso** who last posted 25th September last year and has only posted 18 times in all. So while I’m not as compulsive as some of you posters, I am stuck between a do-nothing-bozo and a do-little-dude. ---
**Author:** ![Parallax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@Parallax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Parallax)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-way-to-kill-5-minutes-at-work-how-well-do-you-know-your-sdmb-nextdoor-neighbors/173545/19 "2003-05-07T00:48:48Z")
To look up a person by their number use the following URL: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=)\ So to look up user 1234 use: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=1234](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=1234) A shortcut is to click on someone’s profile button and when the page comes up replace the userid at the end of the URL with the user number you want to check. ---
**Author:** ![Waenara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@Waenara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waenara)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-way-to-kill-5-minutes-at-work-how-well-do-you-know-your-sdmb-nextdoor-neighbors/173545/20 "2003-05-07T00:51:39Z")
#22415 **modmidget** - zero posts #22416 **Waenara** (me) - 72 posts, 0.21 posts/day #22147 **KRM** - 52 posts, 0.15 posts/day [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-way-to-kill-5-minutes-at-work-how-well-do-you-know-your-sdmb-nextdoor-neighbors/173545.md?page=2)