the value of a slashdot user id

[Torrere]

Somebody once offered to blow me for my /. userid (Score:4, Funny)
by Tony Shepps (333) on Sunday January 11, @05:33AM (#7944120)
(http://cellar.org/)
Like everything else on the web, before the bubble popped it was briefly worth far more than its actual value, and since then has been utterly worthless.

So is there a story behind this?

(That's an awesome user id number, by the way.)