Hatrack River Forum: Member numbers

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Posted by Sergeant (Member # 8749) on :

I was noticing that I am member number 8749. I found it mildly amusing that OSC was relegated to 209. I'll have to keep an eye out for those who got their numbers before our favorite author [Smile]

sorry if this seems to be a very random post.

Sergeant

Posted by TheHumanTarget (Member # 7129) on :

Some of us have been around forever, but don't like low numbers.

Some of us just joined.

Some of us have lurked for years.

Welcome aboard.

Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :

In the beginning, there were a Hatrack River townhall meetings.

This begat the first iteration of this forum, which eventually yielded to the current iteration.

At that point, all the existing members got moved over and assigned member numbers randomly (maybe not randomly but due to some arbitrary factor). So every member with a number lower than ~300 has been here since the beginning.

At least, that's my understanding. YMMV.

Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :

It wasn't entirely random. They were moved over in batches, and are alphabetical within each batch.

Posted by unicornwhisperer (Member # 294) on :

Alphabetically?
So does that mean if I picked a username that began with A, I would have had a much lower number?

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

Yep. Look at ak. [Big Grin]

BTW, there was a "beginning" before Hatrack River @ AOL.

Some of us remember the Prodigy days. (Although it was not called Hatrack then.)

Posted by TheHumanTarget (Member # 7129) on :

I was on AOL in the beginning. Never posted, but have lurked for a mighty long time.

Posted by Yozhik (Member # 89) on :

Actually, there were two alphabetical batches. The second half of the alphabet was assigned lower member numbers than the first. ak was evidently at the very beginning of the first half, and I was at the very very end of the second half. So my number is one higher than hers. [Smile]

Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :

There weren't two alphabetical batches. There was one, including users #1-#121, and in the ASCII system capital letters come before lowercase. Members who registered manually begin at #122, with Tom at #124 and a previous incarnation of me at #125 being the oldest still active.

--Pop

Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :

I like my member number. It's so. . . consecutive. [Smile]

Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :

You should think about a hatrack giveaway involving the account that's your previous incarnation.

Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :

Nah.

Posted by JaimeBenlevy (Member # 6222) on :

Can you post with it one time on this thread just so we can see it?

Posted by Uncle Moose (Member # 125) on :

Nah.

Posted by JaimeBenlevy (Member # 6222) on :

[Big Grin]

Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :

Ooooh, it still has that new user smell!

Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :

Well, in slightly over two years, I had barely 100 posts (I think it was 107, and I've posted a couple times here and there since). In just over a year after that, I had 1,000 as Papa Moose (at which point I unintentionally started the landmark tradition [blatant plug]), so yeah -- it's like I drove Uncle Moose just to the store and back, and Papa was my commuting screenname. Of course, I don't commute as far as (for example) TomD.

--Pop

Posted by Boon (Member # 4646) on :

...glad this isn't...

[Big Grin]

Posted by Orson Scott Card (Member # 209) on :

I've had several different memberships, because I kept forgetting my password. This was before cookies. I have no idea whether this was the oldest one; the others may have been deleted since I finally committed to this one.

Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :

*posts to check her member number*

oo I like it, all even numbers AND 2*4 is 8!

Posted by Roseauthor (Member # 148) on :

I think my first registration I lost either the password or my mind... I can't even remember that far back.. but I reregistered and this is my number. (I'm still sticking with the story of losing my PW rather than my mind!)

Posted by Joldo (Member # 6991) on :

*posts to check his*

I used to have 5800 . . . I liked it because it was a multiple of one-hundred . . .

Posted by Joldo (Member # 6991) on :

6991 . . . hm . . . 9 and 1 make 10, leaving 69 . . . [Blushing]

Er . . . 1 and 6 produce 7, the strongest number for arithmancers, and then there's a 99 . . . which 1 less than 100 . . . let's say we subtract that from the 7, giving us a 6 . . . then we'll retrieve our original 6 in duplicate using a 0 as a time travel device . . . voila! 1066, year of the Battle of Hastings!