# Who Has The Longest Active Dope Membership? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 20, 2011, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-longest-active-dope-membership/571984 "2011-02-20T05:56:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-longest-active-dope-membership/571984/62 "2011-02-26T02:58:19Z")
7193, baby! Awwww yeaaaah! ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-longest-active-dope-membership/571984/63 "2011-02-26T06:12:39Z")
> [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](#): > > I am wondering if I have one of the lowest posts: length of membership ratios. [This guy](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13236469&postcount=101) might be the winner (#101). ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-longest-active-dope-membership/571984/64 "2011-02-26T23:53:02Z")
4708 !I made the top 5000! ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-longest-active-dope-membership/571984/65 "2011-02-27T00:08:24Z")
Well… I mean, damn! Y’all are so happy to have low membership numbers… Can I at least be #1 in the bat-shit department, then? 🙂 Q ---
**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:** [February 27, 2011, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-longest-active-dope-membership/571984/66 "2011-02-27T00:12:47Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > Can I at least be #1 in the bat-shit department, then? 🙂 **Quasi** , considering some folks we’ve had on here, I don’t think you’re even in the running. Sorry to disappoint you.😉 ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-longest-active-dope-membership/571984/67 "2011-02-27T00:19:08Z")
**bull** shit department??? 🙂 Thanks, **Colibri**. I appreciate it! Q ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-longest-active-dope-membership/571984/68 "2011-02-27T08:19:26Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > **Quasi** , considering some folks we’ve had on here, I don’t think you’re even in the running. Sorry to disappoint you.😉 Agreed. Also if you are losing your marbles a bit, it is just a reminder you had some to begin with. Unlike some of the posters here. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![D-bear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@D-bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D-bear)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-longest-active-dope-membership/571984/69 "2011-02-28T04:59:37Z")
> [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](#): > > I am wondering if I have one of the lowest posts: length of membership ratios. > Does that information exist anywhere accessible or would I have to look at everyones “post per day” info. Partly it was because I went among the missing during pay to post times, although I did continue mainly to read the dope during those years. There was a while in 2003-4 that I did not have a computer, but I still read the dope at libraries, my mom’s house and so forth. > > I have a a new mission to get my posts/day average above 1. If I made a point of posting 11 times/day for the next year, I could do this. Or would the mods think this is shameless post-count padding. And I probably won’t even achieve this. I’m a reader not a poster. How could you possibly get your posts/day average to go above 1? Just asking as my statistics are… # Total Posts: 245 # Posts Per Day: 0.06 I still love it here. I guess now that I have joined the ranks of the unemployed, I may move a decimal point, But I’ve always enjoyed reading more than posting. My internal dialogue makes coming here like a nice conversation with a well read, more or less well educated group of friends. When I’m craving a variety of different topics of conversation with good people, I can come here for a quick escape… You’re all good people, for the most part, and that’s why I’ve been here as long as I have and why I keep paying to be here… ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-longest-active-dope-membership/571984/70 "2011-02-28T05:38:29Z")
I’m user 1780 and would have been lower but I was in the middle of a divorce when the sdmb went online and had no internet for a couple weeks. Still only .70 posts per day; I was inactive for quite a while. I read the site daily but don’t post like I used to. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-longest-active-dope-membership/571984/71 "2011-02-28T05:48:05Z")
> [@D-bear](#): > > How could you possibly get your posts/day average to go above 1? Just asking as my statistics are… > > # Total Posts: 245 > > # Posts Per Day: 0.06 Well you have a significantly lower ratio than I do. I figured, (and someone correct me if my math is wrong) that to get a ratio to =1 then I would need 11x365 posts+ 2 leap days=4017 4017-939=3076. So if I posted 3076 times today, my ratio would be approximately 1. (Plus the moderators would be freaking out, and my keyboard would die.) Since that isn’t going to happen, I added another 365 days to get to this time next year, divided that number and got 9.4 posts/day, so lower than the 11 which I used as a rough average. That seems reasonable, but not actually likely for me. Unless I start playing more feuds and commenting more on things I’ve read, I will probably stay below 1 post /day for a long time. Or find something else for an Ask the Thread. That spiked my posting for a brief while. Like you I come to listen and enjoy the conversation. I don’t always need to say something just to enjoy being here. (Nothing against people with high post counts, its just not me.) ---
**Author:** ![KCB615](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea666f/32.png) [@KCB615](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KCB615)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-longest-active-dope-membership/571984/72 "2011-02-28T13:11:05Z")
Member number 47, with a whopping 0.16 posts per day. I’m one of the founding lurkers, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-longest-active-dope-membership/571984/73 "2011-02-28T14:56:00Z")
I’m member #11,659. Nothing particularly notable about that, other than the fact that I have been here continuously for just over a decade. I average about a post per day (which makes this my daily post for today ;)). However, I first read the original _Straight Dope_ book back when it was released in paperback in 1986 or so, and I had an AOL membership in 1994, so I don’t know why it took me so long to find the SDMB online. Apparently, we joined right at the same time, **Quasimodem** , separated by just one day and 13 member numbers. ---
**Author:** ![Santos\_L\_Halper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/santos_l_halper/32/1_2.png) [@Santos\_L\_Halper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santos_L_Halper)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-longest-active-dope-membership/571984/74 "2011-03-04T12:26:10Z")
> [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](#): > > I am wondering if I have one of the lowest posts: length of membership ratios. Well, excluding folks who posted once in, say, 1999 and never returned, I’d say [SBCheeks](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php) may be the winner. He joined in June 2001 and just [made his fifth post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=599398) today. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RM\_Mentock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@RM\_Mentock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RM_Mentock)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-longest-active-dope-membership/571984/75 "2011-03-04T14:25:30Z")
> [@Santos\_L\_Halper](#): > > Well, excluding folks who posted once in, say, 1999 and never returned, I’d say [SBCheeks](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php) may be the winner. He joined in June 2001 and just [made his fifth post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=599398) today. 🙂 Wow, he went a little crazy June 25, 2001 and posted four times. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-longest-active-dope-membership/571984/76 "2011-03-25T00:31:46Z")
I’m 93181! ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-longest-active-dope-membership/571984/77 "2011-03-25T00:42:16Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > I’m 93181! I assume this was my number when I was **erictelevision**. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-longest-active-dope-membership/571984/78 "2011-03-25T00:48:27Z")
what’s my number? ETA: 55684. And now we know. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-longest-active-dope-membership/571984/79 "2011-03-25T00:51:56Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > what’s my number? > > ETA: 55684. And now we know. And knowing is half the battle! ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-longest-active-dope-membership/571984/80 "2011-03-25T05:40:40Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > For those of you who have posted in this thread and who may have prior registrations in their past, send me an email and come clean and we’ll merge everything up under the old join date. > > (Olly olly oxen free!) > > And it’s not too early to start thinking about renewing those Memberships, especially the Charter Memberships. You don’t have to wait until they expire to get on the good foot. I was under 900 back in 1999 with a different user name. I think I may take advantage of the offer. What’s the deal with subscriptions nowadays? I drifted away from posting when they started charging; I let it lapse and basically just lurk (until) now. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-longest-active-dope-membership/571984/81 "2011-03-25T07:17:35Z")
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