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Welcome to oldanalog, the 2600th registered member of theHogs.net!

The growth on this site has been pretty amazing.

Any bets on what date the 3000-member mark will be reached?

Well, considering we're in the off-season, I'll set the "over/under" at August 14th, 2006 for reaching 3,000 members.

So, is your bet "over" or "under"?

Justice Hog wrote:Well, considering we're in the off-season, I'll set the "over/under" at August 14th, 2006 for reaching 3,000 members.

So, is your bet "over" or "under"?

I was going to say training camp. So, I'll go under.

Edit: It would be kind of cool to have a calendar and let members sign up for a date they think the site will reach 3000 member. Maybe we can talk the staff into making a special "badge" for the winner.

Justice Hog wrote:Well, considering we're in the off-season, I'll set the "over/under" at August 14th, 2006 for reaching 3,000 members.

So, is your bet "over" or "under"?

Over. Easily. Things slow down in the summer.

Redskin in Canada wrote:

Justice Hog wrote:Well, considering we're in the off-season, I'll set the "over/under" at August 14th, 2006 for reaching 3,000 members.

So, is your bet "over" or "under"?

Over. Easily. Things slow down in the summer.

OVER ....summer time blues !!!

over (it'll be close)

376 new posters still to go. It ain't gonna happen. We'll see.

Depends on who we get in free agency...there's a spike in joiners when something big happens.

Justice Hog wrote:Well, considering we're in the off-season, I'll set the "over/under" at August 14th, 2006 for reaching 3,000 members.

So, is your bet "over" or "under"?

2,717 as of today. 283 to go...

Well, if we have 3 people joining per day between now and August 14th, we'll reach 3,000 on August 14th! I'm still holding firm on my prediction!

Justice Hog wrote:Well, if we have 3 people joining per day between now and August 14th, we'll reach 3,000 on August 14th! I'm still holding firm on my prediction!

Well, we are up to 2720, so it's a start.

2,786 members and counting ...

2 more in 1 Hour.... wait until v3 hits the web

We are a month away, 2,834 and counting ...

Interesting.

We're at 2,840 as of today.

August 14th was my prediction, so we'll have to sign up about 6 people per day to reach 3,000 by then.

Hmmmm. We'll see.

over by a little bit ,
cause people are finding out this is the place to be for all things redskins..

over ...but barely..

2889 members and Camp is on now. We are short by 111. But I am impressed with the progress. The site is growing fast. Keep up the good work. Two weeks to the deadline.

Remember, I predicted August 14th back in February. Not a bad prediction, huh?

May be close.

We'll need 9 people/day. Don't think we'll do it.....

Justice Hog wrote:May be close.

We'll need 9 people/day. Don't think we'll do it.....

Six overnight ... might be do-able

Holding at 2,975 and it's 8/10. That just over 6 people joining per day.

Man, this is kinda cool.

I may have hit the date on the head!

It's gonna be close, folks.

Justice Hog wrote:Holding at 2,975 and it's 8/10. That just over 6 people joining per day.

Man, this is kinda cool.

I may have hit the date on the head!

It's gonna be close, folks.

The link in the Hamilton Spectator article on Jesse Lumsden, might propel us there sooner. If it happens on the 14th, I'm asking for YOUR help on the Hognostications this year.

We just need two more today and then JH can be crowned official board psychic.

Actually there's some spammers that need to be cleaned up from the last few days, so son't count chickens yet... it'll actually be more like six to ten... still doable though.

Far be it from me to point out that closing the Camp forum to the general public had a lot more to do with it than good guessing did.

Had I not closed the camp forum to 'members only'... we'd likely still have 30 or 40 to go... and nobody knew that was coming, so there's an element of luck there.

I never like it when there's some sort of 'guessing game' on board numbers... people start 'cheating' to be right and create false registries. Luckily I can see IP addresses etc and can figure out who's trying to pad a number.

admin wrote:Actually there's some spammers that need to be cleaned up from the last few days, so son't count chickens yet... it'll actually be more like six to ten... still doable though.

Far be it from me to point out that closing the Camp forum to the general public had a lot more to do with it than good guessing did.

Had I not closed the camp forum to 'members only'... we'd likely still have 30 or 40 to go... and nobody knew that was coming, so there's an element of luck there.

I never like it when there's some sort of 'guessing game' on board numbers... people start 'cheating' to be right and create false registries. Luckily I can see IP addresses etc and can figure out who's trying to pad a number.

Really? I would think that, since there isn't anything actually at stake, people could just sit back and watch it follow a "natural" course. And, of course, the actual number isn't the, but the overall growth of the site. Another thing we didn't know when this thread started was that you would completely redesign the main site and add the blog feature. Surely that affected the numbers as well.

cvillehog wrote: Really? I would think that, since there isn't anything actually at stake, people could just sit back and watch it follow a "natural" course. And, of course, the actual number isn't the, but the overall growth of the site. Another thing we didn't know when this thread started was that you would completely redesign the main site and add the blog feature. Surely that affected the numbers as well.

Yepper.... unfortunately people don't think about much other than themselves, so creating a little work for me or any other mod for that matter, is usually the last thing people consider.

There's a lot of factors that went into the growth... ability to 'gauge' that growth really had nothing to do with the increased activity and increasing board population... most of it was due to the hard work of the staff.