User blog:MertesRBLX/Hiding 2004-2005 users?

On my recent researches I've realized that ROBLOX has changed the join date of the 2004 to 2005 users on ROBLOX. The first question that comes to mind is why and when?



As most of us all know, ROBLOX was basically in alpha stages already in 2004 with testers and administrators. In 2005 the first users showed up but it was unable to use online capability, as it was in 2006 as well. The users from 2004 is only made by testers, administrators and close partners. I am not 100% sure about this, but I know that I am on the right way. In 2005 is where people started coming, possibly related to the close partners or



the administrators themselves. So the question is, why did they want to hide/remove this? As you mayknow, every user from 2004 to 2005 joined in February 27th 2006 (examples: http://www.roblox.com/User.aspx?ID=36, http://www.roblox.com/User.aspx?ID=75and http://www.roblox.com/User.aspx?ID=82, there is actually many more but I am just showing a few). When did they change this? I remember seeing david.baszucki (builderman's old account) post on a thread from like 2006 where his join date showed somewhere in 2004 (can't remember exact date) as well as erik.cassel. I don't remember how long ago this really was, but I do remember that it can not be THAT long ago.

So, now we come to the final question- why did they do this? Well, my theory is that the year is too far back to be saved so that the system made it itself to 2006, perhaps an outdated service that saved the join dates? Anyways, as you may know, users offline more than a year ago (or two, not 100% sure) shows the account's join date instead of the Last seen date. I think this is another stupid update, it is still exciting seeing when people really quit and not showing the join date. I am not sure if ROBLOX is even aware about this, because that was just weird. Anyways, if we go back to the question why- I do not have any other theories, or sources. So my question to you all is: what is your theory about this? Why do you think so?