# Posts and Date Registered Now in GQ!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 28, 2000, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-and-date-registered-now-in-gq/13203 "2000-01-28T04:57:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-and-date-registered-now-in-gq/13203/41 "2000-01-28T14:56:00Z")
Well, I think this totally SUCKS—I get no credit for the nearly 1000 posts I made as Flora McFlimsey from July through December!! What, I’ve gotta add that to my sig line or something? ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-and-date-registered-now-in-gq/13203/42 "2000-01-28T15:13:00Z")
Now we have a whole NEW way to evaluate each other and make snap judgements! Under 500…Newbie! Over 1500…Nerd who needs to get a life! Approximately 1400…Cool, well-informed, intelligent hepcat who plays a mean “Ornithology” on tenor sax! Let’s see…I’m slightly behind Wally…slightly ahead of ChiefScott, NICELY ahead of Sealemon and orangecakes…and I’m whumpin’ the HELL out of that Eve person. Whatever happened to Flora McFlimsey, anyway? – Uke, sowing his seeds of confusion again ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-and-date-registered-now-in-gq/13203/43 "2000-01-28T15:16:00Z")
David, Can’t I add on my former posts from vanillanice? Please? ---
**Author:** ![Melatonin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b3f665/32.png) [@Melatonin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melatonin)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-and-date-registered-now-in-gq/13203/44 "2000-01-28T15:16:00Z")
. . . shamelessly monopolizing bandwidth. . . ---
**Author:** ![Globe-trotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@Globe-trotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Globe-trotter)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-and-date-registered-now-in-gq/13203/45 "2000-01-28T15:18:00Z")
Darn! I’d better get my act together if I want to get out of that “Newbie” category. This place is as good as any to start. * * * Eat right, exercise daily, live clean, die anyway. ---
**Author:** ![beefymeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@beefymeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beefymeg)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-and-date-registered-now-in-gq/13203/46 "2000-01-28T15:18:00Z")
Inky dinky doo! Just checking in! * * * Sucks to your assmar. ---
**Author:** ![missdavis102](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@missdavis102](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missdavis102)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-and-date-registered-now-in-gq/13203/47 "2000-01-28T15:28:00Z")
It sucks to be a social doper. I’ll have to do better. Not that I’m shamelessly padding or anything… Does it count for anything that Chief Scott’s using my suggestion as his new sig? I mean, anything other than my general cleverness? (I’d smilie here, but I don’t need contempt.) ---
**Author:** ![SterlingNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@SterlingNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SterlingNorth)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-and-date-registered-now-in-gq/13203/48 "2000-01-28T15:36:00Z")
But Davey, I want my own sock-puppet theatre too. But [pseudo]seriously, at least they don’t put where you’re from on the side like they do [here](http://www.michaelhyatt.com/cgibin/ubbcgi/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro&BypassCookie=true)! You have to do something insanely complicated to get that info here. (Click on the [http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/profile.gif](http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/profile.gif) ) * * * [This is America](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/2000-01/15/147l-011500-idx.html) A black woman warns cabbies to protect themselves by refusing to pick up young black men. ---
**Author:** ![David\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@David\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_B)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-and-date-registered-now-in-gq/13203/49 "2000-01-28T15:38:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by orangecakes: > David, Can’t I add on my former posts from vanillanice? Please?\*\* You’ll just have to make that your sig: “Add XXX posts to my total, at left, from when I was Vanillanice.” ---
**Author:** ![Yankee\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/7ea924/32.png) [@Yankee\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yankee_Blue)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-and-date-registered-now-in-gq/13203/50 "2000-01-28T15:45:00Z")
God, how depressing, nothing like flaunting how utterly average my SDMB posting career has been. Now I’m going to have to start posting gratuitous comments on other threads to boost my numbers into the lofty lands of ‘SDMB veteran’. **sigh** I think I’ll go lurk… * * * All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people. ---
**Author:** ![Yankee\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/7ea924/32.png) [@Yankee\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yankee_Blue)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-and-date-registered-now-in-gq/13203/51 "2000-01-28T15:46:00Z")
God, how depressing, nothing like flaunting how utterly average my SDMB posting career has been. Now I’m going to have to start posting gratuitous comments on other threads to boost my numbers into the lofty lands of ‘SDMB veteran’. **sigh** I think I’ll go lurk… * * * All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people. ---
**Author:** ![Atrael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Atrael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atrael)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-and-date-registered-now-in-gq/13203/52 "2000-01-28T16:09:00Z")
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**Author:** ![Frankie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/258eb7/32.png) [@Frankie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frankie)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-and-date-registered-now-in-gq/13203/53 "2000-01-28T17:05:00Z")
Uke- Does that mean I am a newbie?? But i’ve been registered and posting for awhile now! how bout 250 posts?? * * * -Frankie “Mother Mercy, can your loins bear fruit forever?/Is your fecundity a trammel or a treasure?” -Bad Religion ---
**Author:** ![David\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@David\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_B)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-and-date-registered-now-in-gq/13203/54 "2000-01-28T17:14:00Z")
Actually, “newbie” status should be determined by date of registration, not number of posts. ---
**Author:** ![Bluepony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Bluepony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bluepony)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-and-date-registered-now-in-gq/13203/55 "2000-01-28T17:17:00Z")
…just checkin’ the ol’ post count 🆒 * * * “…send lawyers, guns, and money…” ``` Warren Zevon ``` ---
**Author:** ![SterlingNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@SterlingNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SterlingNorth)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-and-date-registered-now-in-gq/13203/56 "2000-01-28T17:26:00Z")
But **DavidB** , you can register one day, not post, then go for months without posting. Then when the fellow wades his foot into the board, he’ll have one post and be registered of over a year. . . ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-and-date-registered-now-in-gq/13203/57 "2000-01-28T17:36:00Z")
So, if we make snap judgements about posters, we should take into account both the registration date _and_ the number of posts. I propose that the benchmarks be set anywhere lower than my own stats. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![David\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@David\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_B)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-and-date-registered-now-in-gq/13203/58 "2000-01-28T17:46:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by SterlingNorth: > But **DavidB** , you can register one day, not post, then go for months without posting. Then when the fellow wades his foot into the board, he’ll have one post and be registered of over a year. . . True, but if he took the time to register, he probably has been reading for a while. So even if he is a newbie to _posting_, he might not be considered an overall newbie. I guess we need two categories – Newbie Reader and Newbie Poster. ---
**Author:** ![Catrandom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Catrandom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catrandom)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-and-date-registered-now-in-gq/13203/59 "2000-01-28T17:46:00Z")
Still under 500, but nobody’s newbie! Catrandom, who thinks this is awfully personal to have just hanging out there in the open like that… :o ---
**Author:** ![David\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@David\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_B)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-and-date-registered-now-in-gq/13203/60 "2000-01-28T20:48:00Z")
Ya know, it occurs to me that I haven’t seen anybody with nearly as many posts as I have. I thought certainly Satan would beat me, but he’s like 1000 behind. I’m really hoping I don’t have the most posts, but can’t think of anybody who would be beating me. Any ideas? Please! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-and-date-registered-now-in-gq/13203.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-and-date-registered-now-in-gq/13203.md?page=4)