# Revenant Threshold

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revenant-threshold/427607>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [November 24, 2007, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revenant-threshold/427607 "2007-11-24T15:35:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2007, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revenant-threshold/427607/1 "2007-11-24T15:35:22Z")

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Link [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=444693&page=4](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=444693&page=4)

How is it that a prolific poster showing a join date of October 2005 is now registered as a guest and thereby I would assume is posting for free ?

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**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2007, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revenant-threshold/427607/2 "2007-11-24T15:44:00Z")

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Probably the same way a similar thing happened recently to **DSYoungEsq** : [http://208.100.26.199/sdmb/showthread.php?t=443431](http://208.100.26.199/sdmb/showthread.php?t=443431)

[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?userid=55611](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?userid=55611) RT “joined” on 10-21-2005. Presumably he joined as a guest. Guest membership lasted 30 days, expired in November. Became a member around that time. Renewal would be keyed to the membership date–not the join date. His renewal date would have been in the last week (he posted yestereday). He hasn’t renewed yet either because:

1. He decided not to.
2. He doesn’t have the money right now.
3. He didn’t notice he expired yet.

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**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2007, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revenant-threshold/427607/3 "2007-11-24T17:08:10Z")

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If #2, he should feel free to contact me. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2007, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revenant-threshold/427607/4 "2007-11-24T23:08:39Z")

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Thanks a lot, **Q.E.D.**!

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**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revenant-threshold/427607/5 "2007-11-25T01:07:15Z")

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My pleasure. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revenant-threshold/427607/6 "2007-11-25T01:24:35Z")

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Gonna go ahead and close this on a happy note.