# So it's been a week since Slashdot

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-its-been-a-week-since-slashdot/148626>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [January 14, 2003, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-its-been-a-week-since-slashdot/148626 "2003-01-14T23:35:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Belrix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Belrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belrix)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-its-been-a-week-since-slashdot/148626/1 "2003-01-14T23:35:07Z")

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Have levels dropped back to normal?

Is there some idea of how many slashdotters signed up to just make one post then haven’t been seen again. Did we retain any?

-B

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**Author:** ![rickh57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/54ee81/32.png) [@rickh57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rickh57)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-its-been-a-week-since-slashdot/148626/2 "2003-01-14T23:39:00Z")

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You retained me!

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**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-its-been-a-week-since-slashdot/148626/3 "2003-01-14T23:48:40Z")

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For some reason, I thought this thread title read: “So it’s been a week since school started.” That would still have been about right, but why my brain insists on making the actual title longer… I have NO idea.

F\_X

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**Author:** ![paperbackwriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@paperbackwriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paperbackwriter)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-its-been-a-week-since-slashdot/148626/4 "2003-01-15T00:03:50Z")

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Well, no one else has said it yet, so:  
Welcome **rickh57**

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-its-been-a-week-since-slashdot/148626/5 "2003-01-15T00:19:49Z")

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As far as I can tell the number of visitors per day has gone back to the same level as before one of our threads was featured at the slashdot website.