Why is JimRob’s start date listed as 11/28/97? I don’t recall the official start date of FR, but we had the protest on Halloween of that year in Washington DC that was hailed as one of the first examples of a mass political gathering in real life organized online. I had been a member for a couple months by that point and it was not absolutely new when I joined, which would push FR’s start back to spring of 1997 if not earlier.
His “member since” date is the date on his homepage, like everyone else. If he wanted a different date, then he could have changed it at any time.