Possible "Member Number"???

[sheepherder]

...Mine is #6696...

We've been mulling over how to identify the 10,000th member...Well, it's not hard at all!

For instance...John D, site owner, is member #2...

(See pic below)

OK, to find your member number...Open a thread with your post in it (or go to your profile)...Hover your mouse pointer over your name...and read the "/member.php?u=xxxx" in your browsers taskbar...

Nothing to it!!!

Lessee...Ed Tinker is #8; Vlim is #597; cirelaw is #1794; Thor is #3...

Here's some fun: Just plug a number into the User Profile URL to see who that member number is...

Let's try http://forum.lugerforum.com/member.php?u=4 and it's...Ron Wood!!!

Woohoo!!!

So...To find our 10,000th member...Just wait until we hit 10,000 or over...And click their name, go to their profile, and do a mouseover!

[Edward Tinker]

so, if I watch close enough (which I have no desire to do), I could then become the 10,000 member

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by Edward Tinker

so, if I watch close enough (which I have no desire to do), I could then become the 10,000 member

I don't think so...You have to register to view the threads/profiles first...

[sheepherder]

Uh, oh...This can't be right...It appears we already have our 10,000th member...

http://forum.lugerforum.com/member.php?u=10000

medic535

Join Date
12-20-2011
Total Posts
0

OK...What's wrong with this???

I was looking at JasonXP...Who is our newest member, and the Member Counter says "Members: 9,997"...But he's #10728...

Where'd those other 728 members go???

[Edward Tinker]

Not sure if banned members count, and that would be folks who are spammers

[Terry Tiell]

I'm 10,555.

[sheepherder]

I plugged in about 30 - 40 random member numbers last night, and they all came up with member names, stats, etc. Quite a few had 0 posts, but all seemed good...

I guess spammers do count...At least initially...

So this isn't an accurate method of counting members...Real members, anyway...

[MikeP]

FWIW a bunch of us guys from the old forum got shuffled around when we had to re register.
I don't see any significance in roster numbers or post counts.

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by MikeP

FWIW a bunch of us guys from the old forum got shuffled around when we had to re register.
I don't see any significance in roster numbers or post counts.

Roger that. I mentioned in another thread that I was a member of another forum for 1 or 2 years, had 1000+ posts, and my ISP changed to all-commercial, and I had to get another ISP and re-register at that forum. I couldn't use my previous username, so I had to choose a new one, and started all over again from 0.

I imagine there are quite a few similar instances here, especially when members changed from dial-up to broadband, with different confirmation email addresses.

[Edward Tinker]

well, not really

if they notified an admin, we can 'merge' their two profiles into one or we can simply change their email address, which they can do too...