SBF.net is now a year old!

[cbscreative]

Well, I'm starting this thread a few hours early, but this way it will be here for all the early morning readers (which I rarely am).

On August 6, 2009, SBF.net is one year old!!!

What a great year. As of this post, we have 778 members, 1542 threads, and 19,900 posts (19,901 after I submit this). Almost 20,000 posts folks!

And the best part is, the quality is exceptional. Vangogh does an outstanding job of cleaning up spam. He does so well that Kristine and I stand in awe, so this is my chance to acknowledge him publicly. The members here deserve a lot of credit too. It's not just numbers, it's real content that is useful. I'm sure many people have been helped, and I am pleased at how well we have done.

Happy Anniversary everyone! Let the festivities begin.

[vangogh]

You beat me to it. I was going to start the same thread tomorrow morning when it was official.

I wanted to say thanks to everyone here. Look at the numbers Steve posted above. Those are some pretty good numbers, especially at a time when most people are saying forums are a thing of the past. We all proved that isn't true and we've been building a nice home here. I've been watching the post count for the last month and hoping we'd hit 20,000, but 19,900 is still good and I'm sure I've deleted a few hundred spam posts over the year.

Thanks for the compliment on the cleanup Steve. It's most just checking in every few hours even if I don't post. The best part is catching the spammers while they're still registering.

I'll echo what Steve said about the quality of the content. As I'm writing this we have 19,906 posts and 1,543 threads. That's almost 13 posts per thread (12.9 to be more precise) Go look around at other forums and check their posts/thread average. It's going to be a lot less. We get good conversations going and we keep them going.

We also do it in a civil manner. Sure we disagree at times and at other times that disagreement is probably even a little heated, but I think overall we respect each other, enjoy each other's company, and genuinely want to help each other succeed.

So congrats everyone. Let's hope the next year is even better.

Now for the party. I have several cases of virtual champagne and virtual beer. I'm staring at a virtual liquor cabinet that is filled with everything you can imagine. Drink up (virtually of course) and let's get this party started.

[KristineS]

Wow, it's been a year already!

I have to echo what Steve said regarding Vangogh as the spam assassin. He leaves very little for the rest of us to do.

I'd also like to second (or third) the thanks to all the members here. We have a great group, all of whom are ready to share what they know and are able to have a civil discussion and to disagree without getting snarky or mean. Those abilities make this forum a great place to be and a terrific resource.

Happy first birthday to us. I can't wait to see where year #2 takes us.

[Evan]

Amazing that it has been a year... It's been very successful, and I'm sure many more will continue to come!

Thanks for all of your hard work to the A-team trio.

[ArcSine]

Happy Anniversary and many congrats, gang! You've put together a terrific forum, and it's obvious you've poured a ton of hard work into it.

Cheers, and congratulations!

[Spider]

Super job, everyone! SBF moved to the top of my list of Discussion Fora a couple of months ago and is my favorite place on the 'net.

Keep up the good work!

[Blessed]

wow a year already! this is a great place to hang out... soon I'll have a project for everyone to critique!

[Business Attorney]

Others may be amazed it is a year already, but to me it seems like eons ago that we were struggling with the "other" forum. Everyone here has done a great job of making the missteps of the old forum a fading memory.

Congratulations!

[vangogh]

It's funny because I was just thinking about the other forum and you're right it does seem like a long time since we had to deal with what was going on there. Still hard to believe it's only been a year here though.

Thanks all for the congrats.

[lav]

Congratulations guys this truly is one of the better forums around. Just knowing that someone is going to read your post and respond to it makes it a great place to be! A couple of weeks ago I ventured over to the old forum for the first time in ages and sent a PM to the admins about getting my signature to work....still waitng for a response from them. I know here if I sent a PM here i would get a quick response from someone who sincerely wants to help and that makes all the difference.