Dear Monks,

We seem to be re-using 'node_id's, and I'm starting to see things like below:

http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=13842

User since:     May 20, 2000 at 03:14 EDT
Last here:     Aug 29, 2012 at 17:00 EDT (3 hours ago)
Experience:     1
Level:    Initiate (1)
Writeups:     1 

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Are we maybe not resetting the 'User since:' field?

Hard to welcome someone when they been here 7 years before I got here!

Just wondering!

Update I have added the above, but I've seen two others. I'm not trying to cause problems, but trying to help PM. It seems strange that someone could be here for 12 years and be an 'Initiate', but I may be wrong!

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