Thankyou all for the kind words
I started here as Member No. 24 in July 2009.
I had followed Chandoo.org loosely for over a year and I think I kept coming back as I liked Chandoo's writing style.
When the forums started I joined on day 3 and originally had two goals.
The first aim was to see if I could make 1,000 posts in the first year.
My second aim was to support the forum until I felt it had a population and enough other Problem Solvers to become self sustaining.
I think that I've now achieved both of these goals
I have managed to answer 1,000 posts every year since I started, and in fact have well exceeded that.
There has been weeks where the Forum would only get 1 post for the week and I wondered if the Forum would survive.
More recently there have been days where the main forum page which lists the most recent 30 posts has been filed up in 16 hours and I've wondered how we would ever get through the backlog.
Chandoo made me a Ninja, totally out of the blue one day when I had posted about 350 posts.
I had probably passed Chandoo's posts months before at around the 260 mark.
Since then we have added a further 5 Ninja's to the stealth.
There are no hard and fast rules to membership except the willingness to help others, but a recommendation by Chandoo or another Ninja also helps.
Here are a few stats about the past 5,000 posts
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Name Location Start No. days Posts Posts per Day
Hui Australia 27/07/2009 1,388 5,008 3.61
Narrayan India 12/10/2011 581 3,991 6.87
SirJB7 Argentina 11/12/2011 521 4,319 8.29
Luke USA 17/11/10 910 4,258 4.68
Faseeh Pakistan 11/01/2012 490 1,552 3.17
BobHC UK 6/01/2012 495 1,382 2.79
Debraj Roy India 4/03/2012 437 885 2.03
Chandoo India 24/07/2009 1,391 582 0.42
Old Chippy UK 28/09/2009 1,325 460 0.35
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I will be asking Chandoo for a full anonymised dump of the stats and every post and will upload it for an upcoming DashBoard Challenge.
So that's 5,000 posts.
A special thank-you to the other Ninjas to whom without this Forum would get bogged down in questions and probably die due to inattention.
A special thankyou to Chandoo for originally trusting me with the Ninjas Swords. The internet can be a strange place to greet and trust a total stranger with the keys to your lively hood. http://chandoo.org/wp/2012/05/23/chandoo-visits-perth-australia/
But a special thanx to all the Forum Readers as without your support this community wouldn't be the vibrant place it is and it would have died as so many other Excel Forums have.
ps: You may not know that I have also written over 80 posts at Chandoo.org and other Excel sites!
If you want to know a little bit more about me you can read a brief Bio and full list of all posts here: http://chandoo.org/wp/about-hui/