The Fool UK Roll of Honour

Published in Investing on 24 July 2009

A celebration of Fools who have been posting for 10 years or more.

Inspired by Entrust's Now I'm 10! post, we have decided to institute -- drum roll -- a Fool UK 'Roll of Honour' to celebrate those Fools who have been posting on the UK discussion boards for 10 years or more.

The criteria for inclusion are simply that someone first posted 10 or more years ago (obviously!), has posted within the last 90 days, and has posted at least 250 messages in total.

The inaugural Roll of Honour comprises just 127 Fools, out of the many tens of thousands of people who have ever posted a message. And only five of those are current TMFers (but there are several former TMFers among the rest, some easier to identify than others - see how many you can spot). 

The list is in A-Z order, if only to make finding specific usernames that much easier, and each user's name links to their 10 most recommended posts.  Sadly, there's no 'lucky charm' for people on the Roll of Honour, but we hope the warm glow of having been involved for so long in something rather special will be reward enough.

We'll be updating the Roll of Honour every so often, so, who knows, one day you might be on it!

The Inaugural Roll of Honour

acinonyxx
agoni
ahenry
Alexi147
AndyGadget
AntonBee
Arborbridge
AuntieJane
bhoddisattva
bonjeroo
Carcosa
Coldsnap
Courant
csearle
Darka
daveh01
deltrotter
demully
discokinged
djpreston
Dounia
ealesd
earsb
easilypartedfool
entrust
fatrav
Feverking
ffwl
FiendishGames
fluiman
Flure
FreshFroot
Gadge
geebee2
GeordieSteve
GHH
gnomes
GolightlyCat
Gr0w
gt94sss2
HarryDodson
hassettp
hywel
ingermarie
InspectorCloseau
IntoTheUnknown
IrishIceHawk
IronPyrites
jacknarrysdad
james100
jofc
johnw11
keithatgmc
kenobi
KJenkins
Lauder
LongWayHome
LordEssex
MaCDollar
MadDutch
madmix
madwolf
maggiethomas
Mapfumo
MarkieW
Marklucas1
martic10
midnightcatprowl
Miltomatic
mmepani
monohor
MrsBluenose
muddlemind
MuzzyInnit
NeilW
newlayabout
NigelTMF
Noslien
OceanRoad
odysseus2000
oldcharlie
parsleyhay
paulypilot
PeterGray
PetreaW
Pheidippides
poundcoin
ProfitAndLoss
PSYAN1DE
PuffinTickler
pulsey
Purm
qprfact
RageHammer
Rapier686
SimonQ
skillfool
SKOTCH
Slartybartfast
Snorvey
sophotrope
SteadyAim
steveam
stevensfo
StevieBlunder
SureSceptic
TangerineKeith
tawse
technocat
Terrapin1
ThalasGair
TheSteelyDan
thorncomp
timiwa
tjh290633
TMFDragon
TMFGoogly
TMFMayn
TMFPyad
TMFTigger
tsr2
TuJeste
vaticinator
WorldCupWilly
XMFLostInThought
yyuryyub
zachxx

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KingMcKong 24 Jul 2009 , 3:46pm

em, hem...

I know I'm only the 4th most popular UK Fool, but I seem to be missing from this list!!!!

:-(


KMcK

TMFTarantula 24 Jul 2009 , 3:59pm

Hi KMcK

I know I'm only the 4th most popular UK Fool, but I seem to be missing from this list!!!!

That's because, although you registered on 12 July 1999, you didn't actually make your debut post until 29 October.

So, that gives you something to look forward to as winter arrives :-)

Foolish regards

Tarantula

FreshFroot 24 Jul 2009 , 11:28pm

Oi! Where's my name?

I think this was my first post- 12/02/99:
http://boards.fool.co.uk/Message.asp?mid=5684106
No recs! Clearly genius is never recognised in its own time.



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FreshFroot
(A Registered Fool Since January 21, 1999)

TMFTarantula 25 Jul 2009 , 1:31pm

Hi FreshFroot

Oi! Where's my name?

It's now where it should be - in the list.

A technical problem with the original query* meant that quite a few people were accidentally omitted. I've now corrected the problem and republished the full list. Apologies to all those who were left out the first time round.

* okay, a problem with my understanding of the database schema. The apparently obviously named 'TotalMessages' field didn't actually mean what I thought it did :-)

Foolish regards

Tarantula

TMFTarantula 25 Jul 2009 , 1:56pm

Hi FreshFroot

Oi! Where's my name?

It's now where it should be - in the list :-)

A slight problem with the original database query (it was counting users' total messages incorrectly) meant that quite a few people were inadvertently omitted. I've now corrected the problem and republished the full list.

Apologies to all those who were left out the first time round.

Foolish regards

Tarantula

ffwl 25 Jul 2009 , 10:28pm

Given that you updated it today where am I. It is my loon day and I am overlooked and ignored!

Goes away muttering darkly into her beard

Ffwl

ffwl 25 Jul 2009 , 10:31pm

Actually I may not have posted that first day. How the heck do you find your first post!

TMFTarantula 25 Jul 2009 , 11:06pm

Actually I may not have posted that first day. How the heck do you find your first post!

I have to admit, having access to the Boards database helps :-)

For the record, your first post was
http://boards.fool.co.uk/Message.asp?mid=5716059

The problem was that because you posted at 21:42, you hadn't actually posted 10 years ago when I ran the query at 13:56 - so you missed the 'cut' by just under 8 hours!

But, because we're really nice - no, really, we are! - I've added you in to the list.

Foolish regards

Tarantula

ffwl 25 Jul 2009 , 11:39pm
Terrapin1 30 Jul 2009 , 4:24pm

Oh my! do I really rant that much?
It's 10 years since I left the world of 'work' to pursue my dreams, and so far it's been pretty good.
Fool is an excellent platform for investors and traders and I hope a few have been saved from ruin by not only my words, but the input of the many well meaning Fools.
I may often be at variance with Fool members, but it has kept me sane at times.
Hope the next 10 years are seriously fruitful for us all- and here's my prediction for that time - FTSE100 to be 8740

Troglodytes 01 Aug 2009 , 12:30pm

So close ...

I joined on 13th July 1999 - but I guess I don't qualify as my first post to UK Fool was on July 29th. Five days out - bah :-(

However my appeal is that there may be a category of Fools missing. In those days, I believe it was single registration for both the US and UK sites and I did post on July 13th on Fool US. (http://boards.fool.com/Message.asp?mid=11042551)

Trog

k8r4u 14 Aug 2009 , 1:49pm

Thanks to all at the Fool for ten years of advice and opinion - my 10th anniversary was yesterday.

From eternally being 3 months salary in debt, I cleared the lot, built a hefty diverse portfolio (even after the last few months) and virtually paid off the house a decade in advance. I doubt I'd have taken even the first steps if I hadn't stumbled across the book and later the site.

Thanks again !

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