# Stats on 99er dopers **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 16, 2018, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735 "2018-01-16T05:52:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735/1 "2018-01-16T05:52:54Z")
A recent banning of a 99er got me thinking. How many 99ers were there ever? How many are still active? How many were banned? Maybe s brief breakdown of vague reasons (no need to name names) And finally, How many…gulp…have died? Just curious. ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735/2 "2018-01-16T05:55:20Z")
I’m not dead! ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735/3 "2018-01-16T05:57:57Z")
Still here. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735/4 "2018-01-16T06:10:21Z")
Also still here. And don’t forget, many (most) of us are actually pre-'99. A lot of the the '99ers came over from AOL. ---
**Author:** ![blue\_infinity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_infinity/32/2817_2.png) [@blue\_infinity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blue_infinity)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735/5 "2018-01-16T07:47:19Z")
User [3853](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php) was the last to register in 1999. Sampling every 100th user number: 3 out of 38 were active as of 2017, 1 banned and 1 completely [disappeared](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php). :eek: That extrapolates to around 300 active users, and 100-200 banned. About half of those sampled never posted after 2000 and only made \<10 posts. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735/6 "2018-01-16T12:04:24Z")
Undead, yet haunting this unholy place. WWwOOoooOooo… ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735/7 "2018-01-16T14:06:31Z")
Not participating as much as I did in my youth but still here. (And, apparently, that was my 12,001st post. Woot. ) ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735/8 "2018-01-16T14:23:20Z")
Relics from the last century. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735/9 "2018-01-16T15:34:04Z")
Going down the ‘In Memoriam’ list in MPSIMS, these are the 99ers that have been identified has deceased. Dirty Devil Persephone Padeye \*FixedBack Toymaker Aseymayo Ayesha ChiefScott Gail OpalCat PolyCarp Lynn Bodoni VogueVixen aenea \*FixedBack was an AOLer, and posted on Opal’s board, but he doesn’t appear to have registered here. ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735/10 "2018-01-16T16:36:11Z")
In the end… there can only be one! ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735/11 "2018-01-16T17:26:53Z")
3853 dopers enter, one doper leaves. It’s Thunderdope! ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735/12 "2018-01-16T17:33:36Z")
Still here. There are four centenarians in my family (just the ones I’ve met face to face) and I ain’t goin’ nowhere. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735/13 "2018-01-16T17:38:13Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > Going down the ‘In Memoriam’ list in MPSIMS, these are the 99ers that have been identified has deceased. 1. Too many names I recognize and miss 2. A very few that are a mystery to me 3. Hi **Opal**!!! ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735/14 "2018-01-16T18:32:51Z")
Seems like the board can be a bit of a minefield at times, where EVERY Doper has some continual non-zero risk of getting banned sooner or later. One mis-step is often enough to do it, and the board is littered with their corpses to prove it. You only get banned once and it’s forever. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735/15 "2018-01-16T18:37:01Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Seems like the board can be a bit of a minefield at times, where EVERY Doper has some continual non-zero risk of getting banned sooner or later. One mis-step is often enough to do it, and the board is littered with their corpses to prove it… I couldn’t disagree more. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2018, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735/16 "2018-01-16T19:59:21Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > Going down the ‘In Memoriam’ list in MPSIMS, these are the 99ers that have been identified has deceased. > > Dirty Devil > Persephone > Padeye > \*FixedBack > Toymaker > Aseymayo > Ayesha > ChiefScott > Gail > OpalCat > PolyCarp > Lynn Bodoni > VogueVixen > aenea > > \*FixedBack was an AOLer, and posted on Opal’s board, but he doesn’t appear to have registered here. Len was stubborn, he hung around on the AOL forum even after it was officially closed, somebody found a workaround and part of it was still available for years until AOL finally killed off that server. Used to hear from him from time to time. I thought he did register here but I don’t remember the screen name, it was prior to his back surgery. Looking at these names brings back a lot of memories. A lot can happen in 20+ years. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735/17 "2018-01-16T21:46:39Z")
Also poster [Carl Berry](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php), whose name is not listed in the ‘In Memoriam’ thread. Another deceased 99er. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735/18 "2018-01-16T22:07:17Z")
Reports of my death have been exaggerated. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735/19 "2018-01-16T22:33:43Z")
Is there a tontine? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735/20 "2018-01-16T22:35:51Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Seems like the board can be a bit of a minefield at times, where EVERY Doper has some continual non-zero risk of getting banned sooner or later. One mis-step is often enough to do it, and the board is littered with their corpses to prove it. **You only get banned once and it’s forever.** Except for all of us, and it wasn’t, but that’s probably just a one-time deal. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735.md?page=2)