# Why is the SDMB membership declining, and what's the best way to add younger members?

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> [@Velocity](#):
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> I don’t know how other “young” people here joined the Dope or what it was that attracted them.

Looking back, I’m pretty sure I ran across individual threads on the Dope over the years, but never stuck around to browse. The time I finally did start browsing around and after a few weeks of lurking join? When I was googling to find other people who remembered that a baloo is a bear and wuzzle is to mix, and found [this](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-baloo-is-a-bear/35810) thread. (So a thread from 2000 on a tpoic from the 1980s.)

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