# What's going on? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 24, 2017, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on/799746 "2017-10-24T17:40:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2017, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on/799746/21 "2017-10-25T00:07:00Z")
> [@razncain](#): > > Damn! I thought Diogenes the Cynic would hold that record. Okay, you know the next question. BrainGlutton: 78,508 ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2017, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on/799746/22 "2017-10-25T01:40:22Z")
Care to lay odds for when the member # will hit 200,000? I estimate almost exactly 10,000 members per year, so we’d be about 10 months out at the most right now. But the recent wave of spammers means the recent yearly average is likely higher than that. So June of next year? ---
**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:** [October 25, 2017, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on/799746/23 "2017-10-25T03:52:55Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > “Active members” represents the number of members who have logged in within the past 60 days. I am duly impressed. Unless, of course, that includes 4,700 bots and socks who were promptly killed. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2017, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on/799746/24 "2017-10-25T04:00:09Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > I am duly impressed. Unless, of course, that includes 4,700 bots and socks who were promptly killed. 😉 Not quite so bad. We ban around 20-25 spammers a day, or around 1200-1500 in 60 days, so our “real” active membership excluding spammers is more like 3300-3600. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2017, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on/799746/25 "2017-10-25T15:59:32Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Not quite so bad. We ban around 20-25 spammers a day, or around 1200-1500 in 60 days, so our “real” active membership excluding spammers is more like 3300-3600. So how many of those banned spammers actually plunk down the cash for paid membership, only to get banned? Does this special revenue fund the mod coffee cups, jackboots, and hidden hookers and blow parties? ---
**Author:** ![JimNightshade](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jimnightshade/32/3354_2.png) [@JimNightshade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimNightshade)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2017, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on/799746/26 "2017-10-25T17:21:37Z")
Oh, you know we’ve got to find a way To bring some understanding here today We been waiting since 1973 It takes longer when you’re more than 3 Oh ---
**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:** [October 25, 2017, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on/799746/27 "2017-10-25T17:24:57Z")
I highly doubt that any spammer has paid for a membership. Which is, of course, exactly what you’d expect me to say, to keep the revenue stream flowing for the hookers and blow. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2017, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on/799746/28 "2017-10-25T18:22:14Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > So how many of those banned spammers actually plunk down the cash for paid membership, only to get banned? Does this special revenue fund the mod coffee cups, jackboots, and hidden hookers and blow parties? If I had a nickel for every spammer I’ve banned, I’d sure have a shitload of nickels. 🙂 But no, spammers, socks, and trolls unfortunately never pay for membership. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on/799746.md?page=1)