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Who the heck is opebo? I assume they were banned a while back, before I joined?

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olawakandi has just fallen below 1,000 posts in the Last 30 days leaderboard!



When was the last time it happened?

No idea, but presumably even god-emperors get over elections in the months after

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Here’s a little list I compiled for fun.  It shows the top 5 users in post count by “class”, i.e. year of registration.  Some caveats:

• Only users with at least 5000 posts are included.  As a result, the class of 2021 only has a top 2, while 2022 and 2023 don’t have anyone.
• I used the member list off the main forum page, which I think excludes banned users.
• For the sake of consistency, I used usernames; many of these people are better known by their display names.
• Post counts were as of the time I looked at that user, and obviously will be changing.
• Apologies if I missed anyone!

2003:

107571 BRTD
66579 Realpolitik
33524 Harry
29766 Gustaf
29285 afleitch

2004:

58208 Lewis Trondheim
52611 Keystone Phil
52202 jfern
44085 Mr. Morden
42174 Ernest

2005 (a tight battle for first place!):

45442 Torie
44923 GM3PRP
39858 Joe Republic
24921 BushOklahoma
24864 Mr. X

2006:

78638 olawakandi
44166 Eraserhead
44079 Lief
35027 Inks.LWC
32318 Hashemite

2007:

43689 dead0man
41212 Xahar
30329 benconstine
22254 Franzl
21629 brittain33

2008:

54099 North Carolina Yankee
30617 PiT (The Physicist)
29230 GeorgiaModerate
25635 shua
22397 tmthforu94

2009:

57413 Kalwejt
56774 Antonio V
38667 Badger
26878 Gass3268
24450 px75

2010:

36287 20RP12
32947 Nathan
26819 Cathcon
26245 pbrower2a
20059 RogueBeaver

2011:

43444 Scott
17539 Runeghost
15742 Simfan34
14704 Alfred F. Jones
13444 TNF

2012:

28465 Maxwell
24089 Fuzzy Bear
23657 NewYorkExpress
19428 ProudModerate2
17765 blackraisin

2013:

31846 IceSpear
26663 Santander
25371 President Johnson
21934 TDAS04
21120 ElectionsGuy

2014:

40416 Computer89
30502 MormDem
29155 xingkerui
28785 Dwarven Dragon
19559 bronz4141

2015:

36587 TimTurner
22164 Kingpoleon
19802 MohamedChalid
18432 Virginia
16165 Thinking Crumpets Crumpet

2016:

18763 brucejoel99
15943 Calthrina950
15894 Pericles
15389 YE
14203 PittsburghSteel

2017:

16443 John Dule
14607 MB
12815 jk2020
12245 HillGoose
11865 darklordoftech

2018:

27471 Progressive Pessimist
22600 Ferguson97
18511 lfromnj
17808 wbrocks67
16340 PSOL

2019:

17380 S019
16638 KYWildman
13538 Forumlurker161
11864 King T’Chenka
9531 GeneralMacArthur

2020:

11338 ProgressiveModerate
10470 Battista Minola 1616
9332 TiltsAreUnderrated
9181 Crane
8800 DaleCooper

2021:

11466 CentristRepublican
9401 theflyingmongoose

I just checked and it's a very close battle for 5th between me and darklordoftech for the 2017 cohort.

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Also, as far as this and last year go, the highest posters are:
Oldtimer for 2022, with 1405 posts.

Oleg for 2023, with 700 posts.

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almost 9 years since this was started. Guess I may as well update this.

1) For We Are Not Yet, We Are Only Becoming 111,633
2) PHARAOH BAKARI SELLERS 85,700
3) Filuwaúrdjan 67,418
4) minionofmidas 58,207
5) Antonio V 57,626
6) MASHED POTATOES. VOTE! 57,394
7)Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee 54,142
8 ) ○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└ 53,279
9) Keystone Phil 52,611
10) Torie 46,016

Changes since Tim's update in May 2023:

Olawakandi has narrowed the gap between him and BRTD for the top spot by 3030 posts. That's above Morden's calculated pace from Jan 2022, with a 378.75 post difference per month on average vs his 250 per month average. If this pace continues, OC will pass BRTD in a little under 6 years.

Antonio has taken Kal's 5th place spot and is almost certain to overtake Lewis Trondheim for 4th soon. Lewis isn't exactly gone, he was last online September of last year, but he hasn't posted since mid 2022.

jfern has overtaken Phil for 8th and considering NCY's hiatus will probably be in 7th soon.

Tender Branson being removed from the list because of his ban allows Torie to enter the top 10, though dead0man is not far behind and I expect he will enter the top 10 very soon.

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also the class of 2023, previously dominated by Oleg, has him surpassed by a few posters owing to his activity declining later in the year.

All over 500:

riverwalk3: 2920
Aurelius2: 2019
Walterwhite: 1999
BigZuck08: 1093
Oleg: 1037
HL23: 957
Electric Circus: 794
wnwnwn: 758
BlahTheCanuck: 700
Birdish: 515


As far as the 2024 class goes, we have a total of 5 people with any posts:
anbarret: 29 (all of which are on Sanchez's Five Decades of Fear and Loathing)
longestview: 1
emperorcoz: 1
taugustusholm: 1
WhigFreak1836: 1

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because I was interested to see if I broke into the top 5 for the 2017 cohort, here's that:

1) 2023 Poster of the Year™ John Dule 18,035 (steady)
2) Dr. MB  15,655 (steady)
3) Sestak 13,229 (steady)
4) GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB 13,221 (up 2)
5) HillGoose 12,805 (down 1)
6) darklordoftech 12,321 (down 1)

looks like i'll be overtaking Sestak for 3rd in the cohort soon.

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newest posters in the top 100:

1) s019: #96, registered Feb 2 2019
2) lfromnj: #87, registered Nov 6 2018
3) wbrocks67: #78, registered Sep 6 2018
4) Ferguson97: #53, registered Jul 9 2018
5) PSOL: #92, registered Jun 28 2018
6) Progressive Pessimist: #37, registered Mar 10 2018
7) John Dule: #97, registered Mar 31 2017
8 ) brucejoel99: #86, registered Dec 31 2016
9) Virginia: #90, registered Dec 29 2015
10) Kingpoleon: #69, registered July 3 2015

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because I was interested to see if I broke into the top 5 for the 2017 cohort, here's that:

1) 2023 Poster of the Year™ John Dule 18,035 (steady)
2) Dr. MB  15,655 (steady)
3) Sestak 13,229 (steady)
4) GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB 13,221 (up 2)
5) HillGoose 12,805 (down 1)
6) darklordoftech 12,321 (down 1)

looks like i'll be overtaking Sestak for 3rd in the cohort soon.

"soon" ended up being like 12 hours lol

with that I have also broken into the top 150

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Update a month later:

1) they don't love you like i love you 112,030 (+397)
2) PHARAOH BAKARI SELLERS 86,521 (+821)
3) Filuwaúrdjan 67,509 (+91)
4) minionofmidas 58,207 (+0)
5) Antonio the Sixth 57,804 (+178)
6) MASHED POTATOES. VOTE! 57,394 (+0)
7)Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee 54,142 (+0)
8 ) ○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└ 53,444 (+165)
9) Keystone Phil 52,611 (+0)
10) Torie  46,033 (+17)

11) dead0man 45,798 (+277)

Dead0man is on track to break into the top 10 by mid-late March. Difference in posts between BRTD and OC is 424, which is even higher than previous averages. If that exact post difference is maintained, OC would overtake BRTD in almost exactly 5 years.

other overtakes possible:
Antonio taking Lewis Trondheim's 4th place position will happen around early May at this rate.
Jfern overtaking Yankee's 7th place position will happen around July.

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Monthly update:


1) they don't love you like i love you 112,616 (+586)
2) Tutankhuman Bakari Sellers  86,521 (+998)
3) Filuwaúrdjan 67,597 (+88)
4) minionofmidas 58,207 (+0)
5) Antonio the Sixth 57,908 (+104)
6) MASHED POTATOES. VOTE! 57,380 (-14)
7)Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee 54,123 (-19)
8 ) ○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└ 53,578 (+134)
9) Keystone Phil 52,611 (+0)
10) Torie  46,050 (+17)


11) dead0man 46,011 (+213)
12) The world will shine with light in our nightmare 45,142 (+131) [+1]
13) Grumpier than Uncle Joe 45,078 (+52) [-1]
14) Lief 🗽 44,864 (+124)
15) Eraserhead 44,385 (+135)
16) OSR stands with Israel 44,288 (+328) [+1]
17) Mr. Morden 44,073 (+0) [-1] †
18) True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자) 42,157 (+0) *
19) Хahar 🤔 41,731 (+0)
20) President Punxsutawney Phil 41,016 (+641)

† : Deceased poster, RIP
* : Ernest is rumored to be deceased but it has not been confirmed by my knowledge.


seems like some thread Kal and Yankee both posted on must've been deleted? Meanwhile Scott jumps over Grumps and at this rate could jump over Torie for the 11th place spot (since Torie will fall to 11th soon) by the end of the year. Antonio has slowed down but is still on track to take Lewis' spot sometime in the middle of the year. OSR has overtaken Mr. Morden. Dead0man will overtake Torie by the beginning of April.

Meanwhile in the OC-BRTD race the differential in posts is about the same as last month, 412 this time instead of 424.

Doing this made me realize, does anyone know what happened to Xahar? He hasn't logged on in nearly 6 months. I'm a bit worried.

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* : Ernest is rumored to be deceased but it has not been confirmed by my knowledge.

How reliable is that? I thought he just got tired of this place. I vaguely remember him saying as much some time ago before he disappeared.

the rumor did hinge on the COVID surge at the time which scott mentioned. As I said it's simply a rumor, though considering the suddenness of him leaving and the circumstances around it with the COVID spike and his age, it holds some weight. I sure as hell hope it's not true though.

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Looking at recent cohorts, the top 5 for each:

2022:
1) oldtimer 3,196
2) Snow Belt Republican 1,339
3) Liminal Trans Girl leet (1337)
4) Reactionary Libertarian 1,042
5) middleroad 911

2023:
1) The Economy is Getting Worse 3,650
2) Aurelius2 2,080
3) WalterWhite 1,990
4) wnwnwn 1,257
5) BigZuck08 1,091


2024:
1) mjba257 130
2) themaninthejinnahcap 83
3) TechbroMBA 73
4) anbarret 47
5) Irenaeus of Smyrna 21

Remarkable how much more active 2023's cohort is than 2022's. There's several posters with over 1k posts that aren't listed there like Oleg, Electric Circus, and cherry mandarin. Meanwhile I don't think I saw anyone fewer than 200 posts below middleroad

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because I was interested to see if I broke into the top 5 for the 2017 cohort, here's that:

1) 2023 Poster of the Year™ John Dule 18,035 (steady)
2) Dr. MB  15,655 (steady)
3) Sestak 13,229 (steady)
4) GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB 13,221 (up 2)
5) HillGoose 12,805 (down 1)
6) darklordoftech 12,321 (down 1)

looks like i'll be overtaking Sestak for 3rd in the cohort soon.

Top 10 of the 2017 cohort now:

1) John Dule 18,295 (+260)
2) Dr. MB 15,794 (+139)
3) GM Team Member and Senator WB 13,584 (+363)
4) Sestak 13,265 (+36)
5) Hillgoose 12,861 (+56)
6) Tekken_Guy 12,593 (+1,035) [+2]
7) darklordoftech 12,385 (+64) [-1]
8 ) Former President tack50 11,891 (+2) [-1]
9) Oryxslayer 10,715 (+261)
10) America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS 8,719 (+70)

no one active is close to overtaking solid in the cohort. RFKFan and Blairite are next but both haven't been online in over 6 months.

If Tekken_Guy continues this rate of posting (~350 posts a month) he'll pass Hillgoose for 5th in the cohort before this time next month, Sestak for 4th in 2 months, and me for 3rd in a bit longer than 4 months.

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I wonder what the 2022 posters are like

Already posted them above, you’re in 2nd now passing snow belt republican

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If you feel like investing the time in it, I think a lot of people would appreciate seeing the rest of the cohorts.

Will do when I get home.

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doing the top 10 for each cohort, plus 11th just as a closest to the top 10 thing, though no monthly change until I update these in the future

Just doing the aughts for now, this is taking a lot longer than expected lol.

2003:
1) they don't love you like i love you 112,630
2) Filuwaúrdjan 67,597
3) 7,052,770 35,185
4) afleitch 29,827
5) Gustaf 29,769
6) Beet 28,779
7) jaichind 27,097
8 ) Platypus 21,478
9) 12th Doctor 20,584
10) ilikeverin 16,410
11) Nym90 16,260

2004:
1) minionofmidas 58,207
2) ○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└  53,590
3) Keystone Phil 52,611
4) Mr. Morden 44,073
5) True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)    42,157
6) J. J. 32,892
7) ? 31,126
8 ) Alcon 30,867
9) Lunar 30,404
10) King 29,357
11) Gabu 28,388


2005:
1) Torie 46,052
2) Grumpier Than Uncle Joe 45,081
3) Joe Republic 40,030
4) Chancellor Tanterterg 26,182
5) Joe Biden 2020 24,921
6) Bacon King 18,821
7) Ebowed 18,597
8 ) memphis 15,959
9) Speed of Sound 14,166
10) big bad fab 13,344
11) Stranger in a strange land 10,133

2006:

1) Tutankhuman Bakari Sellers 87,536
2) Lief 🗽44,866
3) Eraserhead 44,387
4) Queen Mum Inks.LWC 35,028
5) Hash 32,399
6) Fmr President & Senator Polnut  19,489
7) DownWithTheLeft    18,548
8 ) Verily 16,663
9) Tetro Kornbluth 12,846
10) Hammy 11,711
11) JSojourner 11,510

2007:
1) dead0man 46,023
2) Хahar 🤔 41,731
3) Person Man 36,681
4) Kaine for Senate '18 30,329
5) Franzl 22,254
6) Brittain33 21,932
7) The Mikado 21,655
8 ) Marokai Backbeat 17,477
9) Meeker 14,164
10) Small Business Owner of Any Repute 13,431
11) Sensei 11,531

2008:
1) Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee 54,123
2) GeorgiaModerate 32,254
3) Associate Justice PiT 31,125
4) 🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸 25,658
5) tmthforu94 22,401
6) Sbane 15,302
7) Sprouts Farmers Market ✘ 14,747
8 ) RI 14,702
9) Holmes 13,715
10) cinyc 12,721
11) MaxQue 12,594

2009:
1) Antonio the Sixth 57,911
2) MASHED POTATOES. VOTE! 57,380
3) Badger 40,208
4) Gass3268 27,473
5) pbrower2a 26,837
6) Landslide Lyndon 26,586
7) Miles 19,324
8 ) Vosem 15,591
9) All Along The Watchtower 15,398
10) Phony Moderate 12,298
11) Oakvale 11,827

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Part 1 of the 2010s cohorts

2010:
1) They put it to a vote and they just kept lying 38,188
2) World politics is up Schmitt creek 34,237
3) FEMA Camp Administrator 27,282
4) RogueBeaver 20,058
5) Goldwater 18,049
6) DrScholl 17,901
7) Del Tachi 17,690
8 ) Skill and Chance 12,504
9) tpfkaw 9,118
10) Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook 8,851
11) MAINEiac4434 8,269

2011:
1) The world will shine with light in our nightmare 45,150
2) Atlas Has Shrugged 38,056
3) Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin 19,338
4) Simfan34 15,744
5) H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY 15,071
6) TNF 13,440
7) Indy Texas 12,254
8 ) morgieb 9,618
9) TJ in Oregon 8,952
10) Flake 8,688
11) Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas 7,574

2012:
1) Maxwell 28,459
2) Fuzzy Bear 25,467
3) ProudModerate2 20,337
4) Mr. Reactionary 17,784
5) windjammer 15,511
6) Donerail 15,345
7) Oldiesfreak1854 13,674
8 ) Lumine 13,607
9) Blue3 12,032
10) DINGO Joe 11,700
11) politicus 10,174

2013:
1) IceSpear 31,841
2) President Johnson 28,508
3) Santander 27,826
4) TDAS04 23,420
5) ElectionsGuy 21,107
6) Anti Democrat Democrat Club 14,086
7) Blair 11,812
8 ) KingSweden 11,227
9) Illiniwek 8,858
10) Green Line 7,576
11) Mr. Illini 6,838

2014:
1) OSR stands with Israel 44,297
2) Mr. Smith 33,052
3) Attorney General, LGC Speaker & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon 31,552
4) Xing 30,303
5) 🦀🎂🦀🎂 19,187
6) RINO Tom 16,995
7) Unconditional Surrender Truman 14,142
8 ) SWE 13,227
9) #TheShadowyAbyss 12,027
10) The Other Castro 11,230
11) 136or142 7,434

2015:
1) President Punxsutawney Phil 41,043
2) Sir Mohamed 22,410
3) Kingpoleon 22,144
4) Virginiá 18,850
5) Crumpets 17,540
6) President of the civil service full of trans activists 15,918
7) MT Treasurer 15,284
8 ) DavidB. 13,605
9) Figueira 12,175
10) 15 Down, 35 To Go 11,648
11) RFayette 9,948

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I find it weird that the only year where I don't recognize a single user is 2004

Yeah aside from jfern (with the complete jumbled mess username) none of them are really active, for one reason or another.

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Honestly there’s a number of posters on the lists for the 00s I don’t recognize either, if you’re willing to give a rundown for the other cohorts I’d appreciate it greatly

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2023:
1) The Economy is Getting Worse 3,650
2) Aurelius2 2,080
3) WalterWhite 1,990
4) wnwnwn 1,257
5) BigZuck08 1,091

Counting Cody/Aurelius2 as a 2023 poster doesn't really make sense considering that was his replacement account. I suppose multiple others on these lists have more than one account but it's particularly glaring in his case.

I suppose, but I’m just going with the registration date without really taking anything else into account, here.

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and with that dead0man breaks into the top 10!

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Finishing up the remaining cohorts:

2016
1) brucejoel99 19,431
2) Pericles 17,062
3) Calthrina950 15,937
4) YE 15,623
5) LAKISYLVANIA 15,160
6) Dr Oz Lost Party! 14,924
7) Meclazine for Israel 13,633
8 ) Hindsight was 2020 13,186
9) I’m not Stu 12,746
10) fhtagn 12,517
11) Dr. Arch 12,452

2017
1) John Dule 18,309
2) Dr. MB 15,805
3) GM Team Member and Senator WB 13,605
4) Sestak 13,268
5) HillGoose 12,861
6) Tekken_Guy 12,694
7) darklordoftech 12,387
8 ) Former President tack50 11,891
9) Oryxslayer 10,723
10) America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS 8,728
11) Rookie Yinzer 8,188


2018:

1) Progressive Pessimist 32,492
2) Ferguson97 27,778
3) wbrocks67 21,710
4) lfromnj 19,216
5) PSOL 18,981
6) KaiserDave 13,586
7) Continential 10,536
8 ) Roll Roons 9,968
9) ηєω ƒяσηтιєя 9,229
10) Politician 8,986
11) Penn_Quaker_Girl 8,357

2019:

1) Alben Barkley 19,271
2) S019 18,243
3) It’s so Joever 14,939
4) T'Chenka 13,037
5) CumbrianLefty 11,589
6) GeneralMacArthur 10,605
7) SevenEleven 5,585
8 ) Arizona Iced Tea 5,435
9) Joseph Cao 5,151
10) Vaccinated Russian Bear 5,108
11) TrendsareUsuallyReal 4,098

2020:

1) ProgressiveModerate 13,532
2) Battista Minola 1616 11,272
3) DaleCooper 10,838
4) TiltsAreUnderrated 9,771
5) Crane 9,080
6) GregTheGreat657 7,920
7) Vice President Christian Man 7,334
8 ) Benjamin Frank 7,069
9) TheReckoning 6,642
10) WD 6,573
11)  Shaula🏳️‍⚧️ 6,290

2021:

1) Schiff for Senate 12,122
2) Kahane's Grave Is A Gender-Neutral Bathroom 10,288
3) FT-02 Senator A.F.E. 🇵🇸🤝🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 5,241
4) Pres Mike 4,203
5) Aurelius 4,170
6) Utah Neolib 3,948
7) Spectator 3,366
8 ) THG 3,192
9) Geoffrey Howe 1,788
10) David Hume 1,581
11) Pink Panther 1,547

2022:

1) oldtimer 3,208
2) Liminal Trans Girl 1,373
3) Snow Belt Republican 1,340
4) Reactionary Libertarian 1,048
5) MiddleRoad 911
6) ZMUN M441 626
7) LostInOhio 506
8 ) Mr. Ukucasha 415
9) MyLifeIsYours 368
10) Zenobiyl 363
11) Respect and Compassion  313

2023:

1) The Economy is Getting Worse 3,650
2) Aurelius2 2,080
3) WalterWhite 1,990
4) wnwnwn 1,306
5) BigZuck08 1,091
6) Electric Circus 1,089
7) Oleg 🇰🇿🤝🇺🇦 1,039
8 ) cherry mandarin 1,000
9) Ontario Tory 879
10) Benjamin Frank 2.0 843
11) Birdish 760


2024 so far:

1) mjba257 137
2) themaninthejinnahcap 91
3) TechbroMBA 82
4) anbarret 52
5) Irenaeus of Smyrna 21
6) wayanr 6
7) King Man 4
8 ) SheerBlah 3
9) theBTMANIAC 2


No one else has more than 1 post.

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the dropoff even for top posters after 2021 is notable but probably can be linked to COVID. Less time to post after things subsided.

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Despite being on here for 6+ years I admittedly never read Update, though I do know the spirit slightly lives on in the collective update thread. From the descriptions it sounds like Bushie could honestly do well publishing a semi-autobiographical work in diary format.

Is Inks' infamous mod tenure why people censor swears with [inks]? It's something I never fully questioned but it's even in my signature, and I'm not fully sure of the history there.

Gully Foyle is still active, actually, even butting heads with BRTD earlier this year: https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=576853.msg9339985#msg9339985


As far as other 2003-05 posters I don't recognize:
Platypus has only posted 30 times since I joined the forum which is probably why I don't recognize them.
12th Doctor/Supersoulty I recognize only because I remember seeing him in early Atlasia wiki stuff, including being runner up in the first election over 20 years ago now.
Downwiththeleft feels like someone I should recognize but they haven't posted since 2010.
Verily despite logging in in 2018 hasn't posted since 2011
JSojourner I don't recognize at all either. Hasn't posted since 2010, but logged in earlier today! I guess they're just lurking nowadays.