# "Who posted" information - how are posters' names arranged? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 18, 2006, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-posted-information-how-are-posters-names-arranged/357205 "2006-05-18T01:44:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-posted-information-how-are-posters-names-arranged/357205/21 "2006-05-19T15:01:53Z")
A post in the interest of investigation. ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-posted-information-how-are-posters-names-arranged/357205/22 "2006-05-19T15:11:13Z")
Well, POOP! That didn’t help. One thing I realized: View page source is pretty transparent for the “who posted” page. The only problem is that I didn’t see anything that would specify the order other than by number of posts… could it be random? That doesn’t seem right to me. Wouldn’t there have to be some “code” that specified “random”? ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-posted-information-how-are-posters-names-arranged/357205/23 "2006-05-19T19:24:23Z")
Maybe Slacker can help. He’s pretty knowledgeable of these things. SLACKER? ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2006, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-posted-information-how-are-posters-names-arranged/357205/24 "2006-05-20T07:06:04Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > First sort is by # of posts to the thread, after that . . . not sure. > > Not ID# or join date or alpha. Hmm. Any further thoughts? ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-posted-information-how-are-posters-names-arranged/357205/25 "2006-05-23T14:24:29Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > Any further thoughts? The best I can do now is to relate that I brought this to my OCD support group and I am trying to move on… GUILTY PLEASURE I am watching the list to see how this post effects it. ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-posted-information-how-are-posters-names-arranged/357205/26 "2006-05-23T15:37:04Z")
Perhaps it’s… ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-posted-information-how-are-posters-names-arranged/357205/27 "2006-05-23T15:39:12Z")
Okay it’s got to be random. **Spongemom** just jumped from second to last, to third. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-posted-information-how-are-posters-names-arranged/357205/28 "2006-05-24T17:21:22Z")
> [@Can I change my answer?](#): > > So are there more Easter eggs in this system 😕 Scroll down to the bottom of any page. You will see **Contact Us - Straight Dope Homepage - Archive - Top** in a blue bar. Click on **Archive**. A list of all\* the threads on the boards, grouped by forum. An interesting way to browse old threads. Can’t post though. \*a lot of early threads are missing or scrambled due to gremlins in the system… ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-posted-information-how-are-posters-names-arranged/357205/29 "2006-05-24T22:51:21Z")
> [@Fear Itself](#): > > Can’t post though. Sure you can. Just click on “view full version”. Seems to work fine. However, for old threads, you really, really _shouldn’t_ post. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-posted-information-how-are-posters-names-arranged/357205/30 "2011-10-26T22:29:42Z")
Bumping to get this visible for a copy/paste of the contents, ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-posted-information-how-are-posters-names-arranged/357205/31 "2011-10-26T22:31:17Z")
Here’s some data to see if the pattern is similar to today’s thread on the same issue: Who Posted? Total Posts: 30 User Name Posts SiXSwordS 5 Cunctator 4 saoirse 2 Misnomer 2 Spiff 2 photopat 2 Honey 2 TubaDiva 1 Santos L Halper 1 Martian Bigfoot 1 ultrafilter 1 Man With a Cat 1 Spongemom 1 Fear Itself 1 Jake 1 Zeldar 1 Cervaise 1 Can I change my answer? 1 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-posted-information-how-are-posters-names-arranged/357205/32 "2011-10-26T22:40:07Z")
“Who posted” information - how are posters’ names arranged? #1 05-17-2006, 08:44 PM Cunctator #2 05-17-2006, 08:47 PM Spongemom #3 05-17-2006, 08:51 PM Cunctator #4 05-17-2006, 09:10 PM Man With a Cat #5 05-17-2006, 11:10 PM Santos L Halper #6 05-18-2006, 10:22 AM Misnomer #7 05-18-2006, 10:49 AM Can I change my answer? #8 05-18-2006, 10:51 AM Honey #9 05-18-2006, 10:54 AM Honey #10 05-18-2006, 12:27 PM Misnomer #11 05-18-2006, 01:29 PM Spiff #12 05-18-2006, 01:55 PM Cervaise #13 05-18-2006, 02:03 PM TubaDiva #14 05-18-2006, 03:42 PM SiXSwordS #15 05-18-2006, 03:53 PM SiXSwordS #16 05-18-2006, 03:56 PM Spiff #17 05-18-2006, 07:05 PM Cunctator #18 05-18-2006, 08:32 PM photopat #19 05-18-2006, 08:36 PM photopat #20 05-18-2006, 08:36 PM ultrafilter #21 05-19-2006, 10:01 AM SiXSwordS #22 05-19-2006, 10:11 AM SiXSwordS #23 05-19-2006, 02:24 PM Jake #24 05-20-2006, 02:06 AM Cunctator #25 05-23-2006, 09:24 AM SiXSwordS #26 05-23-2006, 10:37 AM saoirse #27 05-23-2006, 10:39 AM saoirse #28 05-24-2006, 12:21 PM Fear Itself #29 05-24-2006, 05:51 PM Martian Bigfoot #30 Today, 05:29 PM Zeldar #31 Today, 05:31 PM Zeldar Here’s some data to see if the pattern is similar to today’s thread on the same issue: Who Posted? Total Posts: 30 User Name Posts SiXSwordS 5 Cunctator 4 saoirse 2 Misnomer 2 Spiff 2 photopat 2 Honey 2 TubaDiva 1 Santos L Halper 1 Martian Bigfoot 1 ultrafilter 1 Man With a Cat 1 Spongemom 1 Fear Itself 1 Jake 1 Zeldar 1 Cervaise 1 Can I change my answer? 1 ====================================== The above order of posts is the actual order before this post. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-posted-information-how-are-posters-names-arranged/357205.md?page=1)