Mine is 64K or so, signed up six months after I had been reading the site when I owned an ISP in Hong Kong.

I still read the headlines every day but I haven't looked at a comment thread in years. I'm still quite fond of /. despite their shortcomings.

I was visiting the States when their anniversary came up and there were /. meetups set up around the country. We went to the one in San Diego and was genuinely surprised at the low quality of tech knowledge and level of conversation... bit of a let down.....

Neither did owning Slashdot via VA Linux, just ask Eric Raymond about the ups (I am now ... absurdly rich). [1] and downs [2] (Nope. Didn’t sell before the bust.)

[1] http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/1999121000105NWLF

[2] http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=556#comment-228165

I'd sell my sub-600 user ID in an instant if there were a market.

I imagine a sub-20k account would go for a certain amount of money.