Interesting thread Nikki, having been away a while I was looking at the members list whilst trying to remember the frequent and entertaining posters from yesteryear, I too miss the contributions from Karren Hutton and TXKimberley. Not forgetting Sherlyn, despite thinking I had been away for over two years, I must have paid a fleeting visit earlier in the year, because when I looked at Sherlyn's witty last post it was familiar to me, with her line to Di about her shoulder straps. It was hard to believe that she would only be with us in spirit so soon afterwards.
I did a little audit (just can't shake off my accountant's hat) on the members' list and checked the most recent members by sorting by "join date", the number in the profile actually does not increase by increments of 1.Originally Posted by Tamara Croft
Nope you're not, if you click on your name it will take you to your profile, in the address bar you will see a number, yours is 3292, so 3291 members joined before you did
The last five members to join, as at time of this post, were numbered 136727, 136715, 136703, 136684 and 136680 with no easily perceivable method for the random increment. Initially I thought that the last digit should be ignored, but just my small sample gave two 13668's and besides that the members list actually shows 25888 records, which is a little shy of one-fifth of the number that Tamara's method suggest. I love a puzzle, but the solution to this one eludes me
If I sort the list by join date (earliest first) then my name appears on page 36 in position 1789, but the number in my profile is 16726. So how can members, who may wish to know, discover their number?
It was also interesting to see that just 4 days after I joined on 2 November 2015, the forum had its busiest time with 4772 on-line that evening, probably all looking at and commenting on the Halloween threads.
Not boring at all Nikki, although I am reminded of a Smirnoff ad from the 70's which read "I thought accountancy was boring , until I discovered Smirnoff".
