# What's the longest you've gone without reading SDMB? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 17, 2003, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-youve-gone-without-reading-sdmb/195755 "2003-08-17T11:53:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-youve-gone-without-reading-sdmb/195755/1 "2003-08-17T11:53:55Z")
From reading various peoples posts it seems like quite a few, like me, are addicted to this message board. So I was wondering, since you joined up, what’s the longest you’ve gone without reading the SDMB? Mine was 3 days. I went from last Wednesday night until Saturday night without reading SDMB. Due to getting exam results, celebrating this, a friend’s birthday, and also my boyfriend having the house to himself for several days. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-youve-gone-without-reading-sdmb/195755/2 "2003-08-17T12:01:25Z")
I think it was a week ago last year. I was on vacation. ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-youve-gone-without-reading-sdmb/195755/3 "2003-08-17T12:03:05Z")
Er, “a week sometime last year”. I’ve been getting lots of rest; yep. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-youve-gone-without-reading-sdmb/195755/4 "2003-08-17T12:19:24Z")
About 60 years ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-youve-gone-without-reading-sdmb/195755/5 "2003-08-17T12:27:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zeldar \* > \*\*About 60 years \*\* Pretty impressive, especially as you’ve only been here since June! 😉 lol ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-youve-gone-without-reading-sdmb/195755/6 "2003-08-17T12:28:59Z")
Time tripping again, Billy Pilgrim\*? About two weeks while out of town on a jobsite. Now that I have a cheap laptop, I am rarely without my fix. Unless it was a real hard day (too tired) or a real good night (party, concert, date). \ ***Zeldar** ---
**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-youve-gone-without-reading-sdmb/195755/7 "2003-08-17T12:29:46Z")
Two weeks (around a month ago) when I was vacationing. ---
**Author:** ![New\_Improved\_Scott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f17d59/32.png) [@New\_Improved\_Scott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/New_Improved_Scott)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-youve-gone-without-reading-sdmb/195755/8 "2003-08-17T13:21:46Z")
6 months. **LaurAnge** kept me up to date on the gossip though. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-youve-gone-without-reading-sdmb/195755/9 "2003-08-17T14:17:02Z")
Probably a week or two while traveling, although I usually try to go to the netcafe every few days to get my fix. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-youve-gone-without-reading-sdmb/195755/10 "2003-08-17T14:46:23Z")
Okay, I admit I was going for the joke, and that I didn’t read the OP before posting. Since I signed up in June this year, I may have skipped a day, maybe two, but that’s about the extent of my being away. If it’s any clue, whenever I log in I usually have anywhere from 8 to 18 pages of new posts to go through. After I get through all however many pages to get caught up, I will usually “log out” and back in to cut down on the number I have to cope with. It takes no time for that “new posts” count to run back up to several pages. There have been sessions where I’ve done the log out/log in trick several times. In short, I’m basically hooked on this place. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-youve-gone-without-reading-sdmb/195755/11 "2003-08-17T15:51:37Z")
A week – while on vacation. When I got back, I did a rough sort of my email, looked at the important stuff, then headed here. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-youve-gone-without-reading-sdmb/195755/12 "2003-08-17T15:53:30Z")
Just for grins, I stopped posting or even lurking for one entire year (2002). I had been spending a lot of time at the boards and felt like demonstrating to myself that I could also do without it. I had the same feeling about my television set back in August of 2001. I’ve yet to turn it back on. ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-youve-gone-without-reading-sdmb/195755/13 "2003-08-17T18:47:15Z")
I haven’t logged on much at all this summer, with logging on a couple times to break up periods of a few weeks of being totally absent from the boards. Not that anyone noticed. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-youve-gone-without-reading-sdmb/195755/14 "2003-08-17T19:06:34Z")
The only times during the last four years have been the times when the board got hacked or the hamsters exploded. Otherwise, I read it every day. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-youve-gone-without-reading-sdmb/195755/15 "2003-08-17T20:34:23Z")
Over a year. The board was still on AOL when I went to study abroad in Israel in 1998. It moved over to the web in March 1999 (some Doper friends kindly emailed me to let me know), and since I could access the web, I registered, but my web access was iffy at best, so I only posted a couple times. Then I pretty much forgot about the board until November of 1999, when I started posting again. So, August 1998-November 1999. ---
**Author:** ![cherry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cherry)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-youve-gone-without-reading-sdmb/195755/16 "2003-08-17T20:44:12Z")
At least a year, probably more. Started reading a couple of years ago, forgot the address and was reminded of it from an email I received regarding a specific thread. It was an 'oh yeah the SDMB". I have stuck around ever since. ---
**Author:** ![Jenericho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Jenericho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenericho)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-youve-gone-without-reading-sdmb/195755/17 "2003-08-17T20:52:16Z")
Have been SD-less from 11/4/2001 to 9/11/2002 (311 days) and 11/6/2002 to 8/7/2003 (274 days). Luckily now there’s nothing interesting happening in my “real” life so I can spend time here again… ---
**Author:** ![Orange\_Skinner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3be4f8/32.png) [@Orange\_Skinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orange_Skinner)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-youve-gone-without-reading-sdmb/195755/18 "2003-08-17T22:40:36Z")
The longest lapse since I’ve joined up and became fairly active was between a week and a week and a half. I was on vacation for a week, and didn’t get around to doing any online stuff for a few days after I came home again. In general, I log on everyday, but that’ll probably taper off to every other day or so once school starts again. Bastard school. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-youve-gone-without-reading-sdmb/195755/19 "2003-08-17T22:57:16Z")
Easily when the board went down. I was posting when it crashed and tried for some time to raise it. Other that that, there’ve been a few 3 or 4 day absences when traveling. A rough calculation tells me I’ve spent seven to eight thousand hours here. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-youve-gone-without-reading-sdmb/195755/20 "2003-08-17T22:59:47Z")
Hmm…, I might never have thought about this save for my prior post - I seem to post about once for every hour spent here. Now I’ve gotta shut up for a couple of hours. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-youve-gone-without-reading-sdmb/195755.md?page=2)