All Things in Moderation

Today ATiM celebrates its 3rd anniversary. Despite our much reduced daily content, and although I am more often than not disappointed to find nothing new, I must confess that ATiM remains the first website I check every morning, so on my own behalf I want to offer my sincere thanks to all of you who have stuck with it and continue to be daily contributors. I could easily provide a list, but this is supposed to be a happy occasion, so best not to make the depressingly short list too explicit.

One interesting thing worth noting: In my quest to make this anniversary post at least somewhat entertaining by taking a walk down memory lane, I was originally going to link to some of the better threads we’ve had over the last few years, but while searching I discovered that, despite the diminished number of contributors, we did manage to set a new record in 2014 for most comments on a single post. It was McWing’s President’s Day Post which was, ironically, itself devoid of literally any content whatsoever, but managed to produce an impressive 279 comments.

2014 also produced a 242 comment post by Mark, Gay Conservatives Denied ‘Official’ Spot at Texas GOP Convention, which placed in the top 5 of most comments in history.

To be fair, though, neither of these more recent posts can be said to even approach what was the longest thread in ATiM history. That distinction belongs to a memorable thread that was so epic it needed two separate posts by Mich, the first of which alone had the 3rd highest number of comments (252), and the second of which was nearly 70% as long as the first (176), combining for a total 428 comments. I believe that this thread represents the zenith of ATiM’s participation rate.

Anyway, congrats again to ATiM for surviving a 3rd tempestuous year. Here’s to one more.

(Shall we take bets on who is still commenting by September 13, 2015?)

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