Who has the shortest username?
The longest?
Most numbers?
Off to ATMB.
DrMatrix - GQ Moderator
Well, if the Winter Solstice is the shortest day of the year, then the Summer Solstice is the tallest?
No, the summer solstice produes the longest hyponenuse on the daily height of a Doper on the average.
The winter produces the far shortest. They’re too damn cold to stand outside for that length of time.
Tripler
Trust me, I know these things through experimentation.
There are lots of shortest and longest names.
Shortest, many single letters of the alphabet are names, plus a few punctuation marks.
But I found this one that tops them all - registered with a name of one space. No posts. Maybe you can sign up with a space but it can’t handle it at login?
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?action=getinfo&username=%20
As for longest, there at lots who hit the max, which seems to be 30 characters.
Here’s a recent one “the Good Intent,in King’s Road”
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?action=getinfo&username=the%20Good%20Intent,in%20King’s%20Road
handy was the high count king at 17495 posts, but I see he is banned, so I don’t know who’s second.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?action=getinfo&username=handy
What I meant by Most Numbers was the most numbers in one’s username.Like ralph12345
I think one person has a username of pi written to about ten digits.
In that case the answer is 22 characters for 3_14159265358979323846
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?action=getinfo&username=3_14159265358979323846