Who is the oldest member still posting? And what is your number?

Not sure if this should go in MPSIMS or IMHO, seems pretty mundane and pointless, but if the mods dissent…

Thread has probably been done before (it’s a natural), but rather than reviving a zombie, we’ll see how this one goes.

In another thread (about alternative names if your’s had been picked), one poster (Dr. Fidelius) claimed there were only “30 or so” names chosen when he joined. But when I held the cursor over the name and the small info box appeared, it showed he was the 63rd person registered on the SDMB. Which is still a notable achievement, but I wondered about the rest.

So who is the ‘oldest’ in terms of registration on the board that is still posting? It will have to beat the good Doctor’s number of 63.

As for me, I am the 44,355th person to register/join on the SDMB. We’re now well over 120,000, so I guess that makes me a relative oldest, albeit not quite in the “get off my lawn” range.

Anyone else want to share their numbers?

The oldest active member is Ed Zotti, member number 6, and the alter ego of Cecil Adams.

Lynn Bodoni, member number 2, last posted in 2013. There is no member number 1, for some odd reason, and members 3 through 5 were only active in 2000.

Earlier threads on the topic:
Who Has The Longest Active Dope Membership?
Record-holders: The first SDMB user and the first SMDB thread

I’m relatively recent, but I got a pretty good number: 88818.

I believe Lynn is dead.

I’m #300, pretty low but obviously not beating Dr F.

#41 here. Not quite the answer, so I’m relegated to always having a sponge, rather than a towel.

Sorry, how do you find out this info?

Click on your username, and go to your public profile (or go via CP I guess)

The url for your profile is http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?u=17797

so you are member no 17797

Yes, Lynn passed away in 2014.

Thanks.

This is Ranger Jeff’s original id #29. He only posted three times on it, and left for a number of years, and when they came back, they never synced up his old and new.

  1. I like the multiples of three. It has to mean. . .something.

Just think: if you can post another 2,612 times your post count will catch up to your Member #.

Monty has user ID #14. After Ed Zotti, that’s the lowest active user I found (via the simple expedient of trying each ID url in sequence until I found one with recent activity).

Oh, and I’m #45736.

Other sub-63 users with recent activity:

Eutychus (#22)
TubaDiva (#32)
GusNSpot (#33)
**Doug Bowe **(#39)
gotpasswords (#41)
AskNott (#46)
KCB615 (#48)

215 checking in. Not low enough to win, place or show but low enough for me!

Mind blown.

I’m a 99er, & 3734.

As said above, #47 (not 48 - I’m one better than above, darnit!) checking in. Joined the first day the common folk could join during the jump from the AOL forum.