# When does one become an "established" poster?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-one-become-an-established-poster/706953
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [December 11, 2014, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-one-become-an-established-poster/706953 "2014-12-11T16:53:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Mr.Nylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Nylock)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2014, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-one-become-an-established-poster/706953/1 "2014-12-11T16:53:51Z")
I don’t really know if this is an answerable question; I was just thinking about it because of a recent thread written by a new poster. I guess I could say maybe it’s like obscenity - you can’t really define it but you know it when you see it.
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### Author:  [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2014, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-one-become-an-established-poster/706953/2 "2014-12-11T16:55:09Z")
You have to go through a formal ceremony. It’s only held once a year in Geneva. And you need to be sponsored by an existing member.
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### Author:  [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2014, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-one-become-an-established-poster/706953/3 "2014-12-11T17:03:50Z")
5000+ posts, and at least one warning.
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### Author:  [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2014, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-one-become-an-established-poster/706953/4 "2014-12-11T17:09:13Z")
When Guinistasia replies to your post with “me too!”
Sorry Guin…
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### Author:  [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2014, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-one-become-an-established-poster/706953/5 "2014-12-11T17:11:40Z")
> [@Procrustus](#):
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> 5000+ posts, and at least one warning.
This seems about right…I’ve been here a few years, I’m creeping up on 5k posts, I feel like I probably have some name recognition but not necessarily distinction. And I almost feel established.
I’m sure there are posters who have have been here shorter time but contributed more substantially that would be considered more “established.”
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2014, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-one-become-an-established-poster/706953/6 "2014-12-11T17:23:50Z")
When you’re on at least 20 Ignore Lists (that you can verify!)
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### Author:  [@Mr.Nylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Nylock)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2014, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-one-become-an-established-poster/706953/7 "2014-12-11T17:27:32Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
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> You have to go through a formal ceremony. It’s only held once a year in Geneva. And you need to be sponsored by an existing member.
Isn’t that what the Bilderbergs do . . .
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### Author:  [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2014, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-one-become-an-established-poster/706953/8 "2014-12-11T17:47:10Z")
No, their ceremony is in Zurich.
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### Author:  [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2014, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-one-become-an-established-poster/706953/9 "2014-12-11T17:55:00Z")
When one’s posts are no longer all about the single obsession that initially brought one here to talk about.
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### Author:  [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2014, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-one-become-an-established-poster/706953/10 "2014-12-11T17:57:58Z")
Be damned if I know. But when you get there they ask you to watch the goat between events.
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2014, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-one-become-an-established-poster/706953/11 "2014-12-11T18:01:41Z")
> [@Procrustus](#):
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> 5000+ posts, and at least one warning.
Well, crap…
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### Author:  [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2014, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-one-become-an-established-poster/706953/12 "2014-12-11T18:12:20Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
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> You have to go through a formal ceremony. It’s only held once a year in Geneva. And you need to be sponsored by an existing member.
And Nobel prize winners serve the drinks at the reception afterwards, as I recall.
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### Author:  [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2014, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-one-become-an-established-poster/706953/13 "2014-12-11T18:19:14Z")
I knew I had arrived once other posters started referring to me by the correct pronoun.
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2014, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-one-become-an-established-poster/706953/14 "2014-12-11T18:22:20Z")
I’m there! Wheeeeee!
> [@monstro](#):
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> I knew I had arrived once other posters started referring to me by the correct pronoun.
Crap. They’re still not getting me right.
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### Author:  [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2014, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-one-become-an-established-poster/706953/15 "2014-12-11T18:24:51Z")
I don’t think I have any warnings. Mod notes, yes, but I don’t think I’ve had any formal warnings.
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### Author:  [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2014, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-one-become-an-established-poster/706953/16 "2014-12-11T18:30:19Z")
You have to Pit someone and have it blow up in your face, and/or complain about the mods.
Regards,
Shodan
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2014, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-one-become-an-established-poster/706953/17 "2014-12-11T18:31:34Z")
A more serious answer, I think it’s when you start posting shit, and people just ignore it - “Oh, that’s just Cat Whisperer, posting his\* usual shit.”
\*I’m a her, but people are still getting it wrong.
Edit: Oh yeah, you should have been Pitted at least once, too.
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2014, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-one-become-an-established-poster/706953/18 "2014-12-11T18:35:43Z")
The posters known to be established are not the established posters.
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### Author:  [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2014, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-one-become-an-established-poster/706953/19 "2014-12-11T18:42:52Z")
I think the only way to be really sure is to leave for two years and see if anyone starts a “What happened to SoandSO?” thread.
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### Author:  [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2014, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-one-become-an-established-poster/706953/20 "2014-12-11T19:52:17Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#):
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> I don’t think I have any warnings. Mod notes, yes, but I don’t think I’ve had any formal warnings.
There’s still time.
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