I’ve been here for some time, myself. I originally found FR just as the Lewinsky story was breaking via the Drudge link. I rarely post, though. That’s not due to any disgruntlement, though. Rather, by the time I get to a thread, any point I wanted to make is usually already made, and more eloquently than I would have done, so why repeat it?
You didn’t join until 2000, and that’s the only public measure we have to go by - the Member Since date.
I started reading FR posts in late summer / early fall of 1997, before Lewinsky broke, but didn’t join until Jan ‘98.