# Well, at least the admins are into keeping their word! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 21, 2004, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-at-least-the-admins-are-into-keeping-their-word/241198 "2004-04-21T10:39:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2004, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-at-least-the-admins-are-into-keeping-their-word/241198/41 "2004-04-22T04:35:25Z")
> [@Coldfire](#): > > If you didn’t inform an administrator about your new username then, I suggest you do so as quickly as possible, with mention of the old name. Thanks. I will if I can remember it, but it was years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2004, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-at-least-the-admins-are-into-keeping-their-word/241198/42 "2004-04-22T07:58:15Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > Hah! You think this was my first user-name, kid? Why, I was posting to the straight dope before you were even born! You know what Cecil saw when he looked up from his crib? The ceiling, ya idiot - that’s what every baby sees. But he also had a mobile. Hanging from that mobile was ducks whose echoes don’t quack, letter blocks spelling -gry, and pit threads written by me! When a certain young waif allowed Cecil’s great-grandfather to ravish her in the Pony Express office, you know what was quietly tucked into her garter? Her stocking, you pervert. Now cease your lewd thoughts. It’s unseemly. But she also had a note written by a certain “Marmoset with a Musket” declaiming the slowness of Wetern Union to accept the telegraph. You seeing a pattern developing, Aristophanes? > > Aristopanes. Hah! I gave him all his jokes 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2004, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-at-least-the-admins-are-into-keeping-their-word/241198/43 "2004-04-22T08:15:27Z")
Oh, Eddy, could you e-mail me (I can’t see user profiles)? I’m thinking I might actually stay after Monday. I already blew all the money I have on concert tickets\*, but after this one dude pays me the fiver he owes me since like last week I can send it over to you. \*I don’t care that I haven’t had lunch for the past week, Blue Oyster Cult, Peter Frampton, _and_ Grand Funk Railroad are gonna be there, man. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2004, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-at-least-the-admins-are-into-keeping-their-word/241198/44 "2004-04-22T08:29:54Z")
**Duffer** , this is one stupid-assed rant. I’m a nice guy, prone to giving folks the benefit of the doubt, so I’m going to assume you were bored and/or drunk when you decided to pit the mods/admins for being nice people. Asshole. ---
**Author:** ![RTA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@RTA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTA)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2004, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-at-least-the-admins-are-into-keeping-their-word/241198/45 "2004-04-22T12:22:56Z")
Lemme get this straight, **duffer** : You had a username which you registered and used on this board, but you can’t remember what it was? That sounds like Bullshit to me. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2004, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-at-least-the-admins-are-into-keeping-their-word/241198/46 "2004-04-22T12:39:38Z")
Oh man, I hope you didn’t just shoot yourself in the foot **Duffer**. ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2004, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-at-least-the-admins-are-into-keeping-their-word/241198/47 "2004-04-22T14:19:17Z")
Weak rant - I say let 'em push it back all they want. Personally I think the free period shouldn’t end while the messageboard is still in beta and normal functionality like the quick reply doesn’t work. ---
**Author:** ![wakimika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f08c70/32.png) [@wakimika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wakimika)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2004, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-at-least-the-admins-are-into-keeping-their-word/241198/48 "2004-04-22T14:44:50Z")
Goddamnit, I was going to join today. Now I have to wait another 5 days. ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2004, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-at-least-the-admins-are-into-keeping-their-word/241198/49 "2004-04-22T21:20:36Z")
Is your Charter Membership status somehow threatened by those who subscribe after the original deadline? (Gee, sounds like the gay marriage debate reframed…) Esprix ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2004, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-at-least-the-admins-are-into-keeping-their-word/241198/50 "2004-04-22T21:45:38Z")
I hope **duffer** doesn’t subscribe to any magazines. They’re always sending out resubscription offers telling you it’s your last chance to take advantage of their discount rates, when in fact you will have multiple opportunities to get significant savings off the newstand price. If extending the SDMB deadline generates a Pit thread, those things will leave him curled up on the floor in the fetal position. ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2004, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-at-least-the-admins-are-into-keeping-their-word/241198/51 "2004-04-22T23:16:08Z")
And as a bonus, the SDMB doesn’t have all those annoying cards falling out of it all over the place whenver you open a thread. Magazines, for the record, should have a “no freaking cards” rate – I’d pay a 30% or so premium to make those things go away. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2004, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-at-least-the-admins-are-into-keeping-their-word/241198/52 "2004-04-22T23:24:31Z")
> [@manhattan](#): > > And as a bonus, the SDMB doesn’t have all those annoying cards falling out of it all over the place whenver you open a thread. [sub]Yet.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2004, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-at-least-the-admins-are-into-keeping-their-word/241198/53 "2004-04-23T04:14:38Z")
> [@manhattan](#): > > And as a bonus, the SDMB doesn’t have all those annoying cards falling out of it all over the place whenver you open a thread. > > Magazines, for the record, should have a “no freaking cards” rate – I’d pay a 30% or so premium to make those things go away. Yet open is the question of whether the SDMB will send six or a dozen resubscription notices, and hide your expiration date in code so that you don’t know when it actually expires without digging out last year’s check register. I’d pay a premium just to get one notice - about two months before my expiration - then I’d pay it and be done, or not pay it and be done. If I wish to keep my subscription, one notice is enough; if I don’t wish to keep my subscription, no amount of notices are enough. (The cards make handy-dandy bookmarks. I’d miss 'em.) ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2004, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-at-least-the-admins-are-into-keeping-their-word/241198/54 "2004-04-23T04:24:57Z")
Who gives a fuck? ---
**Author:** ![Berkut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2004, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-at-least-the-admins-are-into-keeping-their-word/241198/55 "2004-04-23T04:39:51Z")
> [@This Year's Model](#): > > Yet open is the question of whether the SDMB will send six or a dozen resubscription notices, and hide your expiration date in code so that you don’t know when it actually expires without digging out last year’s check register. Well, they only sent out one notice about subscriptions to begin with. Seems unlikely to me that they will pester you multiple times to renew it. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2004, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-at-least-the-admins-are-into-keeping-their-word/241198/56 "2004-04-23T05:48:47Z")
> [@manhattan](#): > > … And as a bonus, the SDMB doesn’t have all those annoying cards falling out of it all over the place whenver you open a thread. … hmm it didn’t occur to me before, but now i realise why popups are so irritatingly familiar. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2004, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-at-least-the-admins-are-into-keeping-their-word/241198/57 "2004-04-23T08:06:58Z")
> [@RTA](#): > > Lemme get this straight, **duffer** : > > You had a username which you registered and used on this board, but you can’t remember what it was? > > That sounds like Bullshit to me. It was about 5 years ago. So let me ask you this. Can you name every username you’ve used in 5 years on the following: message boards, chat rooms, email accounts, rpg’s, MUD’s, multiple fantasy leagues, commercial entries (Coke, Mountain Dew etc code contests), newsletters, opinion polls, movie review sites, music review sites, ad nauseum. **RTM** when you can remember every single one you can call bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2004, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-at-least-the-admins-are-into-keeping-their-word/241198/58 "2004-04-23T08:23:35Z")
Dude. I never thought I’d use this, but: you need to get out of the house more. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2004, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-at-least-the-admins-are-into-keeping-their-word/241198/59 "2004-04-23T10:37:43Z")
> [@vetbridge](#): > > Hey…I’m old enough to remember when a denarius was worth something. 😉 When I was a kid, denarii hadn’t been invented yet. We hadda fashion all our gold into torcs and bracers and such, and lug it around worn on our bodies. ---
**Author:** ![RTA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@RTA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTA)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2004, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-at-least-the-admins-are-into-keeping-their-word/241198/60 "2004-04-23T12:43:24Z")
> [@](#): > > Can you name every username you’ve used in 5 years on the following: > > message boards, chat rooms, email accounts, rpg’s, MUD’s, multiple fantasy leagues, commercial entries (Coke, Mountain Dew etc code contests), newsletters, opinion polls, movie review sites, music review sites, ad nauseum. Yes. Yes, I can. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-at-least-the-admins-are-into-keeping-their-word/241198.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-at-least-the-admins-are-into-keeping-their-word/241198.md?page=4)