# Who is the oldest member still posting? And what is your number? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 28, 2016, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-member-still-posting-and-what-is-your-number/750462 "2016-03-28T15:04:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-member-still-posting-and-what-is-your-number/750462/21 "2016-03-28T22:48:10Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Just think: if you can post another 2,612 times your post count will catch up to your Member #. Makes me wonder how many currently active members have post counts higher than their member number. At a guess, maybe two or three hundred. I’ve been around for a long time (not quite a 99er, but close), but only passed my member number fairly recently, either last year or the year before. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-member-still-posting-and-what-is-your-number/750462/22 "2016-03-28T22:52:13Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > Makes me wonder how many currently active members have post counts higher than their member number. At a guess, maybe two or three hundred. I’ve been around for a long time (not quite a 99er, but close), but only passed my member number fairly recently, either last year or the year before. I am one at 6,373 as a membership number and a little over 24,400 posts. ---
**Author:** ![SandyHook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SandyHook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandyHook)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-member-still-posting-and-what-is-your-number/750462/23 "2016-03-28T23:13:13Z")
I’m 27,006. Another 15 years or so and I’ll have some real bragging rights. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-member-still-posting-and-what-is-your-number/750462/24 "2016-03-28T23:42:36Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > 1. I like the multiples of three. It has to mean. . .something. > [@Zeldar](#): > > Just think: if you can post another 2,612 times your post count will catch up to your Member #. > [@Chefguy](#): > > Mind blown. > [@dtilque](#): > > Makes me wonder how many currently active members have post counts higher than their member number. At a guess, maybe two or three hundred. I’ve been around for a long time (not quite a 99er, but close), but only passed my member number fairly recently, either last year or the year before. > [@Shagnasty](#): > > I am one at 6,373 as a membership number and a little over 24,400 posts. Looks like I’m good to go! I have to post 12,223 more times to catch my number! I kinda doubt I’d make that. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-member-still-posting-and-what-is-your-number/750462/25 "2016-03-29T00:41:54Z")
I’m certainly not a low number (39,146), but I’m almost exactly 1/3rd of the way (13,129) to posting past my user number. I figure another 26 years to go at my SDMB lifetime average rate, or more like 8 years at my recent rate. I probably get there if some crisis doesn’t kill me (or the 'Dope) early. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-member-still-posting-and-what-is-your-number/750462/26 "2016-03-29T01:25:36Z")
This afternoon, I’ve been looking for people who are the more-posts-than-member# club (we need a better name if this is going to be a thing). I’ve found about 45 members plus a few that are real close ( **ftg** for example is only 55 short). But that’s mostly seeing people who’ve posted in threads I’m interested in. I’m sure there’s plenty of people who qualify who I did not see. ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-member-still-posting-and-what-is-your-number/750462/27 "2016-03-29T01:25:45Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > Makes me wonder how many currently active members have post counts higher than their member number. At a guess, maybe two or three hundred. I’ve been around for a long time (not quite a 99er, but close), but only passed my member number fairly recently, either last year or the year before. I’m on an iPad and hence it isn’t easy to jump around to check the numbers, but my user id is around 2500 and my post count is over 5000. I’ve always found it interesting that I am one of the 99 club as I have never in my life seen the newspaper column, one of the books or the TV show. I also did not use the AOL (?) thing. I must have been Alta Vistaing for something when the site was barely an infant and stuck around. I wonder what it was. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-member-still-posting-and-what-is-your-number/750462/28 "2016-03-29T03:59:33Z")
A few years ago, a thread asked why **Cecil Adams** wasn’t Member Number One. A moderator answered that he originally did have #1, but the software disappeared it. He had to be reassigned a later number. I just checked, and Cecil Adams last posted in October of 2013. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-member-still-posting-and-what-is-your-number/750462/29 "2016-03-29T04:05:51Z")
I’m user #1544. Nothing special here… I became aware of the Straight Dope through the books sometime in the mid-nineties. Gad, twenty years ago! ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-member-still-posting-and-what-is-your-number/750462/30 "2016-03-29T04:26:55Z")
I’m user #2541. I’m getting close to 10x as many posts as my number. I should have more pointless arguments on here. ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-member-still-posting-and-what-is-your-number/750462/31 "2016-03-29T04:30:23Z")
At # 33 I am the oldest continuous regular poster who is/was never admin or worker (mod, adviser ) who has never taken a break. There are a few with lower Numbers but they are admin, mods, whatnot, and or have taken breaks from the board. There are folks who were on the AOL boards longer than I but for whatever reason did not transfer for a few days. ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-member-still-posting-and-what-is-your-number/750462/32 "2016-03-29T05:14:51Z")
I don’t know my number. I’m listed as ‘‘guest’’ but I was a Charter Member for the first couple of years of the paid membership. Thanks again to the kind folks that covered me! Now I’m on the cheap and demoted. (Sigh). I joined Sept 1 2001 and well remember being glued to the Dope during 9/11. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-member-still-posting-and-what-is-your-number/750462/33 "2016-03-29T05:17:06Z")
> [@zoogirl](#): > > I don’t know my number. In the top right of this page is a welcome message, and if you hover over the link it should show your number. You are #17029. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-member-still-posting-and-what-is-your-number/750462/34 "2016-03-29T06:03:04Z")
I am number 9680. Still in four digits. Yowza! ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-member-still-posting-and-what-is-your-number/750462/35 "2016-03-29T06:12:54Z")
I’m member 14048 and I’ve made 14203 posts. I very recently surpassed my member number right before I knew it was a thing. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-member-still-posting-and-what-is-your-number/750462/36 "2016-03-29T07:03:53Z")
I’m member #9885. My post count is way higher; there are quite a few I wish I could delete. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-member-still-posting-and-what-is-your-number/750462/37 "2016-03-29T07:34:24Z")
For anyone interested, here’s a list of about 65 members who have more posts than their member number. Only active members are listed. I compiled the list mostly from posts in threads I read today. I’m sure it’s very incomplete. As I said earlier, there’s probably a couple-three hundred people who qualify. ```auto member # post count username ================================== 6 1,788 Ed Zotti 14 19,642 Monty 22 7,971 Eutychus 32 10,420 TubaDiva 33 7,012 GusNSpot 39 2,781 Doug Bowe 41 15,614 gotpasswords 45 14,270 AskNott 46 13,764 PunditLisa 47 837 KCB615 82 38,960 tomndebb 215 6,931 Doctor Jackson 300 20,116 Revtim 774 44,569 Csarcasm 937 31,824 Left Hand of Dorkness 1492 21,122 NorthernPiper 1544 27,055 Sunspace 1686 12,913 Wendell Wagner 1972 13,197 Earl Snake-Hips Tucker 2255 5,487 amanset 2324 11,871 scr4 2541 21,540 GuanoLad 2661 5,239 Eureka 2709 24,923 kaylasdad99 2917 18,356 Musicat 2941 12,431 Ike Witt 3516 66,540 Little Nemo 3665 49,148 Bricker 3693 16,848 Kimstu 3734 29,602 Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor 3925 53,353 Johnny L.A. 3932 4,129 dtilque 4176 61,991 Chronos 4278 7,244 HailAnts 4799 15,338 Una Persson 4928 7,766 casdave 5718 21,571 gigi 5807 17,729 Telemark 5911 17,810 Derleth 6200 35,212 pulykamell 6214 22,102 friedo 6323 32,880 Fear Itself 6373 24,431 Shagnasty 7108 34,280 RickJay 7481 7,519 Bear_Nenno 7758 20,841 Alessan 7923 9,512 CarnalK 7980 18,528 Lemur866 8220 38,984 EvisL1ves 8244 24,594 Ludovic 8915 10,341 MaxTheVool 9680 11,297 Spoons 9827 24,305 Captain Amazing 9885 25,159 panache45 10115 30,997 Colibri 11001 25,085 Ethilrist 11047 21,201 running coach 13192 22,324 Broomstick 13242 28,166 DrDeth 14048 14,203 hajario 14104 20,759 elfkin477 16467 21,620 ZipperJJ 19015 35,219 Boyo Jim 20755 25,734 dropzone 27822 68,921 John Mace 46809 59,423 Elendil's Heir ``` Here’s a list of members who are fairly close to exceeding their member number ```auto member # post count username ================================== 5660 4,511 USCDiver 11630 8,043 Knorf 12660 12,605 ftg 13769 13,205 engineer_comp_geek 14776 17,063 don't_ask 16255 12,322 Grrr! 17605 16,438 Dseid 30898 26,739 jsgoddess 36596 33,988 Chefguy ``` ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-member-still-posting-and-what-is-your-number/750462/38 "2016-03-29T07:40:07Z")
You should start a thread: “Which poster whose postcount exceeds their member# has the latest join date?”. I was going to start it but since you’ve done so much work on it already, it seems like you should. **Elendil’s Heir** would seem to be comfortably in front at this point. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-member-still-posting-and-what-is-your-number/750462/39 "2016-03-29T07:45:34Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I’m member #9885. My post count is way higher; there are quite a few I wish I could delete. Eh, don’t worry about it. We’ve basically forgotten about those posts. Although why you posted _that_ one I have no idea. You know the one I mean. Seriously. Sheesh. And that _other_ one. Great Og. Anyhow, we’ve mostly forgotten. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-member-still-posting-and-what-is-your-number/750462/40 "2016-03-29T09:06:44Z")
I’m member number 83,640. Getting off your lawn now, yes sir. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-member-still-posting-and-what-is-your-number/750462.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-member-still-posting-and-what-is-your-number/750462.md?page=3)