# PSA: Original Charter Members, Subscriptions expire on 5/20 **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 14, 2018, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psa-original-charter-members-subscriptions-expire-on-5-20/814110 "2018-05-14T02:29:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psa-original-charter-members-subscriptions-expire-on-5-20/814110/41 "2020-05-14T14:04:00Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > It’s high time I did my bit to support the board. Does doing so make me a Charter Member or is that assignation come and gone? Charter Members are those who signed up with the board first went to pay and have kept their memberships current since then. Except for occasional acts of mercy, if you let your charter membership lapse it is gone for good. If you sign up now you become a Member. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psa-original-charter-members-subscriptions-expire-on-5-20/814110/42 "2020-05-14T17:46:12Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > Hmm, mine says I’m good thru 4/5/2019. Not sure when I started doing two years at a time but good thinking, Past Me! Every so often the system hangs up on a member subscription and carries it forward through it’s expired. Some weirdness happens and the flag doesn’t get dropped on expiration and so the status continues. Doesn’t happen very often but this is not the first time I’ve seen it. Glad you’re all paid up. 😃 Jenny your humble TubaDiva Administrator ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2020, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psa-original-charter-members-subscriptions-expire-on-5-20/814110/43 "2020-05-18T22:09:58Z")
I just paid up for 2 more years. ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psa-original-charter-members-subscriptions-expire-on-5-20/814110/44 "2020-05-19T01:50:54Z")
I paid mine for 2 years. How will I know its been processed? ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psa-original-charter-members-subscriptions-expire-on-5-20/814110/45 "2020-05-19T02:14:51Z")
> [@GaryM](#): > > I paid mine for 2 years. How will I know its been processed? Check your subscription expiration date. ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psa-original-charter-members-subscriptions-expire-on-5-20/814110/46 "2020-05-19T03:16:33Z")
Found it, Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psa-original-charter-members-subscriptions-expire-on-5-20/814110/47 "2020-05-19T14:49:04Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > Charter Members are those who signed up with the board first went to pay and have kept their memberships current since then. Except for occasional acts of mercy, if you let your charter membership lapse it is gone for good. > > If you sign up now you become a Member. I strenuously object to the SDMB caste system! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psa-original-charter-members-subscriptions-expire-on-5-20/814110/48 "2020-05-19T15:08:06Z")
Come on, man. This is the only honor I have ever attained! ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psa-original-charter-members-subscriptions-expire-on-5-20/814110/49 "2020-05-19T17:41:48Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > I strenuously object to the SDMB caste system! 😉 I don’t. 😃 Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psa-original-charter-members-subscriptions-expire-on-5-20/814110/50 "2020-05-19T18:07:17Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > I don’t. > > 😃 > > Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk Witness the oppression! ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psa-original-charter-members-subscriptions-expire-on-5-20/814110/51 "2020-05-19T20:01:07Z")
For some reason, my charter membership expires on April 5 (of next year). I wonder how I got out of sync. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psa-original-charter-members-subscriptions-expire-on-5-20/814110/52 "2020-05-19T21:09:31Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > For some reason, my charter membership expires on April 5 (of next year). I wonder how I got out of sync. There was a time several years ago when people who had once been Charter Members and lost it had a window where they could re-up. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psa-original-charter-members-subscriptions-expire-on-5-20/814110/53 "2020-05-19T21:56:35Z")
> [@Wilson](#): > > Here’s to another two years of mostly lurking! You may be a lurker, but I still remember you delivering the best ever one-liner in a thread. Took some huntin’ down, but I found it! > **[To some of the assholes at the local dog park](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=609154)** > > You, you fucking cocksuck, why the fuck are you bringing your aggressive, un-neutered dog to an off-leash park? Was it a total lack of common sense? Or did you miss the large sign posted at the front gate warning that it was against park regulations... 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psa-original-charter-members-subscriptions-expire-on-5-20/814110.md?page=2)