Well, it's been 4 years since
the first post (by Greg Erway - screen name
awesome) on these forums, and the fantastic community that's formed over that time is incredible ! As I write this, the
stats page shows
395 members (tho probably about 70 of those are regulars),
28,938 posts (wow - that's right at 20 per day, including the 'lean' first couple of years !!), and (get ready for this), an astounding
3,666,256 forums pages viewed !! Well, OK, a fair percentage of those were by the search engine spiders, but I imagine that we had close to 2 million 'real' web viewers !
I want to thank everyone who's helped these forums over the years, including Mark Boolman, who faithfully check in with regularity, and helps bring things to my attention, plus all the mods (of course), and also Jon Stoodley, who really kicked things into a higher gear a couple of years ago, with his posting, and enthusiasm. Of course, there's a
lot of other great people, regular posters, etc., but I can't name 'em all, so I threw out a few people off the top of my head. Apologies if I omitted anyone who was equally deserving.
I think my idea of lots of categories has paid off now that we're getting a significant number of posts. By not intermixing topics very much, it's easier to locate things of interest, and also 'old' posts that you may be looking for.
I need to keep the news up better, and that's one goal for me this year. I'll be getting some help from the mods, thru a new category that I'll be creating (for mod eyes only). I've got a few other 'tweaks' in mind, too. But, what you've come to know and love will remain - the best gaming forums on the Internet, with fun, and opinions, but enough control in place to make sure things stay on track, and are fair, for everyone (well, at least those that want to follow reasonable rules !).
About the only thing I can ask of you fine forum members is to be sure to alert me and the staff, via the
Report to moderator link that's at the lower right-hand corner of every post, when you see a posting that has some sort of issue (mainly a rules violation). Don't worry - while you're not anonymous, my staff and I won't reveal who reported what. We'll just deal with the problem. Thanks to those general forum members who are willing to be 'deputy' mods, by helping in this way...
Well, the main
CAGDC website will be having its 6th anniversary next month, and the annual
CAGDC Tournament will be at the big 5 year mark, in March, so the celebrations will continue for quite some time in the early part of 2010. Thanks to everyone for your support of
CAGDC, and let's all keep things building, for
your benefit ! As always,
CAGDC is "Where the PLAYERS come first !", and I
mean that !
