# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2018, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735/61 "2018-01-20T18:58:19Z")
Yeah, but how many times has **Superman** posted? And have you ever seen **Clark K** and **Superman** post in the same thread? :dubious: 'Cause we have a strict “no socking” rule around here. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2018, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735/62 "2018-01-20T21:28:41Z")
> [@andros](#): > > Waaaaay back in the day, I guinea-pigged for **Tuba** and let her (successfully) (attempt to) reset my postcount to zero. Turned out to be a thing admins could do. I feel proud of having done my part, but it was strictly voluntary. Heh. I did not know that was possible. Back in the day, when management started coming down hard on “post-count party” threads, the threat of that could have been an effective motivational tool. ---
**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2018, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735/63 "2018-01-20T21:36:27Z")
So, for those of you who don’t visit much anymore. . .you responded in a very timely manner to this thread. . .how did you know about it so fast? I’m on this board most days, and by the time i saw the thread several oldtimers had already replied! And in the giraffe boards thread\*\* Giraffe\*\* materialized out of nowhere to respond even tho his last prior activity was 2 months earlier. It’s kinda spooky! mc ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2018, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735/64 "2018-01-20T21:41:00Z")
> [@mikecurtis](#): > > So, for those of you who don’t visit much anymore. . .you responded in a very timely manner to this thread. . .how did you know about it so fast? You’re just too new to have become part of the hive mind. ---
**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 20, 2018, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735/65 "2018-01-20T22:35:24Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Heh. I did not know that was possible. Back in the day, when management started coming down hard on “post-count party” threads, the threat of that could have been an effective motivational tool. I don’t even remember why we did that – I guess to see if we could. Don’t remember the outcome neither. You forget a lot after 20 years. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735/66 "2018-01-21T01:48:46Z")
I first discovered the Dope via AOL in 1998. I was drawn in by the “map of Cecil’s brain.” I don’t remember any more if I ever posted in AOL Dope or just lurked, but I guess I must have made a few posts sometime or other. I followed the AOL board to this server in March 1999, but with all the in-jokes and references I decided I’d better familiarize myself with the board culture better, as though studying for an entrance exam. I spent 6 months or so diligently reading the archives of every SD column ever published, meanwhile lurking here. I finally registered in August, I think, but quickly forgot my user ID and never used it. I discovered I had misspelled the word in Lithuanian, but could never recall just how I’d misspelled it. I finally registered for real in October '99, after looking up the correct form of the word. Then I deliberately misspelled it, only because in those primitive pre-Unicode days I didn’t think use of the character **š** would work, so I substituted “sh.” Could not have foreseen then how much this would remain a part of my life all the years since. None of the other things I was doing online 20 years ago have lasted. Only the Dope still stands, proud and unbowed. So one of those disappeared '99 registrations was mine. Whatever account data it may have held has certainly been long since deleted. All this time, like kunilou, I’ve never gotten a single warning and the banhammer holds no fear for me. ---
**Author:** ![Arjuna34](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Arjuna34](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arjuna34)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735/67 "2018-01-21T02:23:14Z")
> [@mikecurtis](#): > > So, for those of you who don’t visit much anymore. . .you responded in a very timely manner to this thread. . .how did you know about it so fast? I’m on this board most days, and by the time i saw the thread several oldtimers had already replied! > mc 18 years of lurking practice … ---
**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 21, 2018, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735/68 "2018-01-21T04:28:08Z")
> [@Arjuna34](#): > > 18 years of lurking practice … Lurking is always fine; its loitering that usually gets you a fine. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735/69 "2018-01-21T11:58:17Z")
Still here, never been banned. I was on usenet from 1995 or so too. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735/70 "2018-01-21T13:02:15Z")
Wait, what word in Lithuanian? I don’t see an “sh” anywhere in “Johanna”. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735/71 "2018-01-21T19:21:01Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Yeah, those few 99ers who are still around are pretty strongly selected against those who’d be inclined to ever wander off, but even they will still eventually stop posting, even without being banned. Eventually, they’re going to die, if nothing else, and eventually, this board itself is going to shut down (perhaps when Ed dies). If it weren’t for the impossibility of deciding the question, I’d wager that, by that time, the majority of the currently-active 99ers would still not be banned. This post makes me think: Back in 1999 … did anyone think this board would pretty much be around in essentially the same form for 18 years and counting? Seemed back then a lot of online hangouts would change or become obsolete (e.g. Usenet, most everything hosted on AOL) after a few years, and the denizens therein would just kind of shuffle off to the next thing. I can say this: the places I visit regularly online now have been pretty much stable since 2000. It’s been an interesting experience to watch places change in some ways, and still manage to keep up an ongoing presence. ---
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735/72 "2018-01-21T20:43:51Z")
> [@Clark\_K](#): > > Still lurking. > [@capybara](#): > > Wow, Clark K., I thought I was lurky. I think I’ll hit 5000 posts in 2019 or 2020 at this rate? And here I sit, right in the middle… ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735/73 "2018-01-22T06:12:27Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > I don’t even remember why we did that – I guess to see if we could. Don’t remember the outcome neither. You forget a lot after 20 years. My dim recollection is that as the number of active posters grew, the number of posters hitting round-number post totals grew with it, and TPTB figured they’d better kill post parties before they totally strangulated MPSIMS. Since I was never privy to the thoughts of TPTB, this is all second or thirdhand, so take that with a shaker or two of salt. -another 99er still not pining for the fjords ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735/74 "2018-01-22T13:28:56Z")
Only _mostly_ dead. > [@mikecurtis](#): > > So, for those of you who don’t visit much anymore. . .you responded in a very timely manner to this thread. . .how did you know about it so fast? I sensed a great disturbance in the Force. … ---
**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 22, 2018, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735/75 "2018-01-22T16:55:46Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > My dim recollection is that as the number of active posters grew, the number of posters hitting round-number post totals grew with it, and TPTB figured they’d better kill post parties before they totally strangulated MPSIMS. Yeah, it wasn’t so much a huge number as it was the top 10 posts at any given time in MPSISMS might include two or three 1,000/5,000/10,000 “post parties,” and that soon started spawning “231st post” threads and the like. I don’t believe they were ever officially banned, and I guess no one would stop me if I decide to celebrate my next post. But it definitely became _declasse_. ---
**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735/76 "2018-01-22T17:37:57Z")
Awwww! I’m coming up on my 1k and a little fanfare would be all right! 😃 mc ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735/77 "2018-01-22T17:41:05Z")
> [@mikecurtis](#): > > Awwww! I’m coming up on my 1k and a little fanfare would be all right! 😃 > > mc _Bronx cheer_ ---
**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735/78 "2018-01-22T17:43:31Z")
LOL! I’ll take what i can get! mc ---
**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:** [January 22, 2018, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735/79 "2018-01-22T19:32:15Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Yeah, it wasn’t so much a huge number as it was the top 10 posts at any given time in MPSISMS might include two or three 1,000/5,000/10,000 “post parties,” and that soon started spawning “231st post” threads and the like. > > I don’t believe they were ever officially banned, and I guess no one would stop me if I decide to celebrate my next post. But it definitely became _declasse_. We had much less server space and bandwidth back then as well which was part of the problem. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735/80 "2018-01-22T20:23:08Z")
> [@](#): > > Quoth **kunilou** : > > …and that soon started spawning “231st post” threads and the like. I think I’m the one who started that, with a thread for my [237th post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=25228). I really dug up some memories, in the process of finding that thread. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-on-99er-dopers/806735.md?page=5)