# What happened to the Members List? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 21, 2002, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-members-list/137939 "2002-11-21T14:46:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DirkGntly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DirkGntly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DirkGntly)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-members-list/137939/1 "2002-11-21T14:46:42Z")
Does anyone know why the Admin disabled it? I found it horribly useful. - Dirk ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-members-list/137939/2 "2002-11-21T14:52:37Z")
Moving to ATMB. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-members-list/137939/3 "2002-11-21T14:54:51Z")
What Member List do you mean, and when did you use it at the SDMB? ---
**Author:** ![DirkGntly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DirkGntly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DirkGntly)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-members-list/137939/4 "2002-11-21T14:58:30Z")
The “members” button at the top of the page…when I click it, it says “The Administrator has Disabled the Members List” or something similar. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-members-list/137939/5 "2002-11-21T15:03:03Z")
This is just a wild stab in the dark, but maybe it means that the members list has been disabled by the administrator. […shrug…] ---
**Author:** ![DirkGntly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DirkGntly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DirkGntly)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-members-list/137939/6 "2002-11-21T15:04:45Z")
Oh, and it was just a few minutes ago when I tried it, btw. Lib, I was wondering WHY the admin disabled it. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-members-list/137939/7 "2002-11-21T15:11:26Z")
I meant, when were you able to use it successfully? ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-members-list/137939/8 "2002-11-21T15:49:59Z")
We may never know why . . . 😉 Dirk, my guess - just a guess, mind you - is that people were using it for nefarious means, perhaps as a way to harvest emails. ---
**Author:** ![DirkGntly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DirkGntly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DirkGntly)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-members-list/137939/9 "2002-11-21T16:01:16Z")
you know, Arnold, I don’t rightly remember. I do know that I have looked up member info in the past, but it’s possible I was simply clicking the link attached to their name when they’ve been the starter of a new thread. If the members list was never active, or not in the last, say, 3 months, then disregard, because I’m mis-remembering what I was doing. Thanks, - Dirk ---
**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:** [November 21, 2002, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-members-list/137939/10 "2002-11-21T19:27:57Z")
It was active once upon a time (several years ago, when we first switched to vB), and every so often, a chaange in settings will accidentally cause it to be available for a day or three, before an admin changes it back. But in general, no. In addition to possible privacy issues, I understand that it was also a considerable strain on the hamsters. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-members-list/137939/11 "2002-11-22T03:06:05Z")
DirkGntly - it was never active in the time frame you remember. The reasons for turning it off were ably explained by that Time God fellow, son of Uranus and Gaia, castrator of his father, devourer and disgorger of his children, husband of Rhea, father of Zeus and Chiron, ruler of the Islands of the Blessed. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-members-list/137939/12 "2002-11-22T03:18:27Z")
We have a mod named Timex?!? ---
**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:** [November 22, 2002, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-members-list/137939/13 "2002-11-22T19:45:29Z")
Actually the god [Chronos](http://www.pantheon.org/articles/c/chronos.html) (the personification of time) and [Cronus](http://www.pantheon.org/articles/c/cronus.html) or Kronos (son and castrator of Uranus, brother and husband of Rhea, father and would-be devourer of Zeus, and erstwhile lord of the Universe) are separate and distinct deities. However, given the ancients’ penchant for such amalgamations as [Zeus-Ammon](http://www.pantheon.org/articles/a/ammon.html), I suppose it’s only a minor heresy. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-members-list/137939/14 "2002-11-22T20:18:42Z")
> [@](#): > > We have a mod named Timex?!? Quick, delete that post before **Fenris** sees it and does another one of his Origin Stories!! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-members-list/137939/15 "2002-11-22T22:02:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MEBuckner \* > Actually the god Chronos (the personification of time) and Cronus or Kronos (son and castrator of Uranus, brother and husband of Rhea, father and would-be devourer of Zeus, and erstwhile lord of the Universe) are separate and distinct deities. Sure thing Mr. Smarty Pants. And the absence of glasses definitely proves that Clark Kent is not Superman. ---
**Author:** ![reprise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@reprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reprise)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2002, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-members-list/137939/16 "2002-11-24T21:15:51Z")
Sometimes, this place is like movie GroundHog Day. ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-members-list/137939/17 "2002-11-25T02:58:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by reprise \* > \*\*Sometimes, this place is like movie GroundHog Day. \*\* I don’t know about that. Sometimes the same thing just happens and happens again. ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-members-list/137939/18 "2002-11-25T02:59:52Z")
Oh. Oh yeah. Nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-members-list/137939/19 "2002-11-25T05:30:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Czarcasm \* > \*\*We have a mod named Timex?!? \*\* It’s **Tamex** , with an **a**. And, no, I’m not a mod…at least, I don’t _think_ I am. I was once surreptitiously made the owner of a Yahoo! Group and I did not realize it for over a year. You wouldn’t do that to me here, would you? ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-members-list/137939/20 "2002-11-25T05:37:46Z")
Let’s do it! Shake this place up. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-members-list/137939.md?page=2)