by fbenario on October 19th, 2012, 2:34 pm
(On my calendar I had a reminder to post in this thread yesterday, but 'life' got in the way!)
History
Yesterday, October 18, 2012, was the 3-year anniversary of this forum's predecessor, Reality Shack. On October 18, 2009, Simon and Hoi took the forum public.* I posted, on both the forum's 1-yr and 2-yr anniversaries, that this forum is the single most important site on the entire internet. The forum's ultimate importance to, and for, the world remains to this day entirely unchallenged, whether by perps or other websites.
Other than during my recent 4-day hospital stay, the first-ever for me in 51 years (yes, I have been exceedingly lucky so far), I have read each day's entire set of new posts every single night before bed. The experience has often been a joy, often a burden, and is usually quite time-consuming. As life itself is, nearly every single day!
The four admins and Brian are the 5 people I trust the most on the entire planet. (Don't worry, in my real, physical life I'm psychologically normal. I trust my parents, my partner, and my one lifetime best friend not to knowingly hurt me or steal from me.) Besides you five, I am so happy at, and appreciative for, the continuing efforts of certain other members, and want to specifically thank [in no order - don't anyone get hurt feelings, please] reichstag, what'sgoingon, Heiwa,lux, Dcopy, Pug, reel.deal, and our two invaluable Central European members Warriorhun and bostonterrier.
*Sadly, the original members, especially including Simon, Hoi, Brian, and I, have not made money from the forum going public in 2009, similar to the money that companies, and their usually selfish and greedy owners generally make, when their oh-so-beloved company goes public! C'est la vie - at least, unlike many public companies, we are actually doing good for the world.
Numbers
During its 2nd year, the forum had 1.5 million page-views. During the just-ended 3rd year we had 2.5 million page-views, giving us a 3-year total of 4.3 million page-views.** This total don't suck, given how controversial our work, analyses, and conclusions are to most people and governments. (All numbers taken from the forum's Mint stat-counter.
**This past summer I posted my work (somewhere on the forum) that placed our 1st year page-views at merely 300,000. I gave my own calculation of a 300,000-500,000 range to two statisticians for review, and they both suggested taking the lower number.