# Who's staying on the SDMB? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 18, 2004, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-staying-on-the-sdmb/235090 "2004-03-18T21:26:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-staying-on-the-sdmb/235090/141 "2004-03-19T15:08:46Z")
Oh, and if anyone else wants to send their tired, their poor, their hungry $5 bills and have me pay online, just let me know. My email address should work. I’m considering the sponsorship route, but haven’t finished thinking it through. Julie ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-staying-on-the-sdmb/235090/142 "2004-03-19T15:57:19Z")
I’m definitely staying. I’m fairly tight on cash, but I’d like to be able to sponsor one or two of the “I’m under 18, but insanely bright and don’t want to gooooo” people. AIM or email me about it. Leave your board name so that I can browse over your previous posts and cast harsh judgement on you though, k? Just kidding, just want to make sure I’m not forking out cash to keep a trollette around, you know how it goes. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![athelas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@athelas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/athelas)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-staying-on-the-sdmb/235090/143 "2004-03-19T16:08:40Z")
'Fraid I won’t be able to stay. My parents are not only internet-phobes (I Dope at school) but I have no credit cards, not to mention no money to speak of. Too bad, though…I really like the Dope and I don’t know of any other net place I’d rather hang out in (not to mention end sentences with prepositions in) So…farewell to all the Trek dopers and the Great Debaters! ---
**Author:** ![trudi\_fermelli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@trudi\_fermelli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/trudi_fermelli)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-staying-on-the-sdmb/235090/144 "2004-03-19T16:09:24Z")
Hey, it must be in the lap of the Gods that I discovered this board just under the wire to become a member AND get to opt in at the discount rate as a charter 😃 This is my first post here and I am using it to say hey, 5 bucks is laundry change I can waste and procrastinate longer about dragging my clothes down two flights of stair outdoors to the laundry room to clean. Didnt get much “free” time before I up into the anty but heck “free” in life is only an illusion most of the time anywho… Glad to be counted in, now just have to think of a signature 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![mrklutz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@mrklutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrklutz)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-staying-on-the-sdmb/235090/145 "2004-03-19T16:18:46Z")
I’ll see your five bucks and raise you 12 irrelevant posts. I would really like a donut right now… ---
**Author:** ![theguidoune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6f9a4e/32.png) [@theguidoune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theguidoune)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-staying-on-the-sdmb/235090/146 "2004-03-19T17:01:04Z")
This lurker is staying! ---
**Author:** ![Cosmopolitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@Cosmopolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmopolitan)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-staying-on-the-sdmb/235090/147 "2004-03-19T17:10:55Z")
I’m in for the first year; I’ll decide whether to renew based on how worthwhile that first year is. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-staying-on-the-sdmb/235090/148 "2004-03-19T17:42:00Z")
$5 worth of beer don’t last me a year. $5 worth of [name of illegal plant deleted] don’t last me a year. $5 worth of Straight Dope to last me a year, with a guaranteed 50% discount rate forever after? For the message board that helped me learn not to be so much of a ranty Socialist and become a Socialist that reads up and does research before he posts? Oh **hell** yeah. I ain’t going anywhere. ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-staying-on-the-sdmb/235090/149 "2004-03-19T17:43:54Z")
I’m staying! ---
**Author:** ![cards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@cards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cards)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-staying-on-the-sdmb/235090/150 "2004-03-19T17:49:42Z")
I’m in. As a lurker back to the AOL days, I can’t quit now. Maybe we could have a special designation for those of us who were here prior to the millenium. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-staying-on-the-sdmb/235090/151 "2004-03-19T18:21:29Z")
Oh, I’m so in. How can I leave when I’ll be having my Five Year Doper Anniversary in a few months? Even if things don’t work out, there would be a gratifying dramatic tension in being one of the hardy holdouts at the end. But I’m confident that this will become an even better place. I wonder if the ones who end up staying will be predominantly newer or older members, or neither? ---
**Author:** ![JerH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@JerH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerH)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-staying-on-the-sdmb/235090/152 "2004-03-19T19:26:35Z")
Hell, I spent more than $5 on lunch today - and it wasn’t even a very good lunch. I’ll be here. ---
**Author:** ![saramamalana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@saramamalana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saramamalana)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-staying-on-the-sdmb/235090/153 "2004-03-19T19:54:32Z")
I’m in! I mean hey, considering the lovely people I met at the NYC dopefest 😉 in January, $5 is nothing to shell out for a year… …speaking of the dopefest, anyone know what ever happened to **Happy Scrappy Hero Pup**? ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-staying-on-the-sdmb/235090/154 "2004-03-19T20:39:27Z")
> [@cards](#): > > I’m in. As a lurker back to the AOL days, I can’t quit now. Maybe we could have a special designation for those of us who were here prior to the millenium. " Pathetic" 😃 ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-staying-on-the-sdmb/235090/155 "2004-03-19T20:59:05Z")
[Richard Gere] I got no where else to go![/Richard Gere] ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-staying-on-the-sdmb/235090/156 "2004-03-19T21:04:08Z")
Yup…I’m in 🙂 Was there ever any question? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-staying-on-the-sdmb/235090/157 "2004-03-19T21:11:33Z")
Let’s see, how much time do I spend here every day? Three or four hours, easily. Do I consider that an hour spent here is worth parting with a sum that’s less than half of a Canadian penny? I think I’ll stick around. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-staying-on-the-sdmb/235090/158 "2004-03-19T21:57:00Z")
I am staying! **NOBODY** is nicer or more caring than Dopers! Rah! ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-staying-on-the-sdmb/235090/159 "2004-03-19T22:06:39Z")
Way in. And I don’t even post that much. But for criss sakes, $4.95 for the first year. That’s practically nothing. I’m not sure why this is such a big issue. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-staying-on-the-sdmb/235090/160 "2004-03-19T22:11:55Z")
> [@Eats\_Crayons](#): > > I would very much like to stay, but if PayPal is the only option then I won’t be. > > PayPal has been in our bad books for a long time and we will never EVER do any kind of transaction through them again. With 2869 Better Business Bureau complaints against them in the past 36 months, I’m guessing there are other folks out there who may hate them as much as I do. > > I’ll have to say goodbye. It has nothing to do with the subscription fee, just the payment problem. > > As soon as they let us mail in a check, I’ll come back. If PayPal remains the _only_ payment option, then I won’t. Sigh. We hate 'em too, **E\_C**. Added to our hatred of PayPal, we had our credit card number stolen last year and now almost never use plastic on-line. Still, I love it here and may well look into those pre-paid dealies, or maybe I’ll send a bright shiny $5 bill to a kind sponsor. Wish I could just send a check to the Reader, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-staying-on-the-sdmb/235090.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-staying-on-the-sdmb/235090.md?page=9)