# Soo I'm not a Charter Member???? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 3, 2005, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soo-im-not-a-charter-member/315432 "2005-08-03T16:37:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soo-im-not-a-charter-member/315432/1 "2005-08-03T16:37:25Z")
I joined in June 2001. I’m looking at other posters who joined after this and they are charter members… Did I miss something somewhere? Thanks in advance for any info - Cheers Phil ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soo-im-not-a-charter-member/315432/2 "2005-08-03T16:40:54Z")
When did you renew? ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soo-im-not-a-charter-member/315432/3 "2005-08-03T17:09:57Z")
Well I subscribed when we went to paid subscriptions - and I renewed this past year, albeit a month late however. ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soo-im-not-a-charter-member/315432/4 "2005-08-03T17:16:10Z")
You only retain your Charter Member status while you mantain your paid subscription. Since you let it lapse, you lost your Charter status. ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soo-im-not-a-charter-member/315432/5 "2005-08-03T17:35:06Z")
☹ ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soo-im-not-a-charter-member/315432/6 "2005-08-03T18:08:08Z")
It’s okay - we still love you. ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soo-im-not-a-charter-member/315432/7 "2005-08-03T19:03:15Z")
🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soo-im-not-a-charter-member/315432/8 "2005-08-03T19:13:08Z")
IIRC, there were a couple of beg-fests where people were able to get their charter status back. I also seem to recall that it is a bit of a chore for them to do it. How important is it too you? A well placed grovel may help your cause. ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soo-im-not-a-charter-member/315432/9 "2005-08-03T22:29:35Z")
> [@adam yax](#): > > IIRC, there were a couple of beg-fests where people were able to get their charter status back. I also seem to recall that it is a bit of a chore for them to do it. How important is it too you? A well placed grovel may help your cause. Most people who know me know I’m a charter member. If one day I log on and see it has been changed I’d be psyched! But if it doesn’t I’m not too bothered 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soo-im-not-a-charter-member/315432/10 "2005-08-04T00:06:21Z")
> [@Phlosphr](#): > > Most people who know me know I’m a charter member. If one day I log on and see it has been changed I’d be psyched! But if it doesn’t I’m not too bothered 🙂 What a nice, balanced, philosophical viewpoint. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soo-im-not-a-charter-member/315432/11 "2005-08-04T02:19:57Z")
That’ll be quite enough of that kind of talk. Where’s your moral outrage? Where’s your indignant attitude? Where’s the harsh criticism of the mods and admins? In Og’s name, where are the cursewords? I don’t think you’ll fit in here very well at all, **Phlosphr**. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soo-im-not-a-charter-member/315432/12 "2005-08-04T06:16:50Z")
> [@Ruby](#): > > Where’s your moral outrage? > > Where’s your indignant attitude? > > Where’s the harsh criticism of the mods and admins? > > In Og’s name, where are the cursewords? > > I don’t think you’ll fit in here very well at all, **Phlosphr**. Given that this is not the **BBQ Pit** , it would seem that **Phlosphr** will not merely fit in, but avoid banning. ---
**Author:** ![buns3000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@buns3000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buns3000)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soo-im-not-a-charter-member/315432/13 "2005-08-04T07:30:50Z")
**Phlosphr** , have you been living in a cave recently? There were 2 or 3 threads in this forum not too long back where a lot of folks had a whine about this very dilemma (including me). The solution was to email a mod directly and explain the situation. Joy will then be delivered unto you in due course. I emailed **TubaDiva** and she then greased the relevant palms for me. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2005, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soo-im-not-a-charter-member/315432/14 "2005-08-04T12:57:15Z")
We had quite a few folks who let the subscription renewal date come and go and realized pretty quickly they had screwed up. Ed and Jerry gave these people some leeway and let them come back as Charter Members (at full charge, since that part of it couldn’t be fixed). However, all these changes had to be done manually throughout the system, a somewhat long and tedious job for someone who already has their hands full to begin with, so after doing several hundred of these, Jerry said, No More. And that’s where it sits. Unless there’s a change of heart from Jerry and Ed, once you lose your Charter Member status, that’s the end of the story. Sorry. your humble TubaDiva ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soo-im-not-a-charter-member/315432/15 "2005-08-04T16:49:42Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > Given that this is not the **BBQ Pit** , it would seem that **Phlosphr** will not merely fit in, but avoid banning. That’ll teach me for trying to be a smartass. ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soo-im-not-a-charter-member/315432/16 "2005-08-04T20:12:24Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > We had quite a few folks who let the subscription renewal date come and go and realized pretty quickly they had screwed up. Ed and Jerry gave these people some leeway and let them come back as Charter Members (at full charge, since that part of it couldn’t be fixed). > > However, all these changes had to be done manually throughout the system, a somewhat long and tedious job for someone who already has their hands full to begin with, so after doing several hundred of these, Jerry said, No More. > > And that’s where it sits. > > Unless there’s a change of heart from Jerry and Ed, once you lose your Charter Member status, that’s the end of the story. > > Sorry. > > your humble TubaDiva Thanks for the clarification O’Wise Diva… And again, I ain’t cry’in. I just appreciate the clarifications. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soo-im-not-a-charter-member/315432/17 "2005-08-04T20:14:10Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > it would seem that **Phlosphr** will not merely fit in, but avoid banning. Well, for this, anyway. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soo-im-not-a-charter-member/315432/18 "2005-08-04T22:08:18Z")
> [@buns3000](#): > > **Phlosphr** , have you been living in a cave recently? There were 2 or 3 threads in this forum not too long back where a lot of folks had a whine about this very dilemma (including me). The solution was to email a mod directly and explain the situation. Joy will then be delivered unto you in due course. > > I emailed **TubaDiva** and she then greased the relevant palms for me. She also helped me. I’m poor folk but finally found someone to sponser me, albiet a couple days past the deadline. Tuba understood and took care of it… “Charter Member” is fine but I always look at the join date to form any opinion of the poster. ---
**Author:** ![Corrvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbce88/32.png) [@Corrvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corrvin)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soo-im-not-a-charter-member/315432/19 "2005-08-05T01:53:22Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > Unless there’s a change of heart from Jerry and Ed, once you lose your Charter Member status, that’s the end of the story. > > Sorry. Somehow, it doesn’t seem fair that I didn’t get a month to try the “new all-paid membership” boards like every other “guest” (since Thou Shalt Not Sock) but I also don’t get to be a Charter Member. I’d like to add my “WAAH!” to the list, please. Oh well, I basically paid $15 to keep my post count and user name. Quite a deal if you look at it that way. Corrvin ---
**Author:** ![alterego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@alterego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alterego)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soo-im-not-a-charter-member/315432/20 "2005-08-05T02:42:37Z")
A classic [If-by-whiskey](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If-by-whiskey) =) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soo-im-not-a-charter-member/315432.md?page=2)