We’re one year old, people.
It feels like a significant milestone, although it doesn’t seem like we’ve already had a year. Time files when you’re having fun, I guess.
I’d like to thank everyone for their contributions, be it posts or votes. As most people know, I still keep an eye on most of the other Saints sites, and while we may lack quantity in terms of signups, we’ve been witness to some absolute quality posts and threads in the short time here.
Everyone has been acknowledged over the course of the year, but I would like to put out a special mention to Tokyo, who was instrumental in getting this place known about in the early days, and hasn’t posted much recently on account of a beef we had. We kept it off the site, but even so, the man deserves acknowledgement. I miss his posts.
For all the Tory-leaning posts that Bear is trying to tickle us with in the political threads, I can’t thank him enough for the solidarity he displayed in the early days, completely culling his TSW presence to concentrate on here. I neither expected nor wanted that, but I’m very humbled that this legend thought this empty place worth so much of his time.
Also couldn’t have maintained an even keel without bletch. Again, much of what we discuss is not on the forum, but he’s helped when I’ve had a difficult decision to make and crucially, he’s brave enough to be candid with me when I’ve stepped over the mark. He is definitely the stable mum to my unpredictable, infrequently amusing dad act.
Bucks and Lou can be called responsible for starting the drinking culture of this forum, actually borrowed from their attempts over at TSW. Before this place even existed, there were a core of people who thought it might not be a bad idea to actually meet with people that you converse with so often, and while they were both derided and protected on TSW, their ideas have completely taken hold here and profoundly shaped the nature of interactions on this place. People are friendly to each other because one year later, a lot of us are actually friends.
Goatboy has also been a huge part of the off-Sotonians socialising efforts, designed and made badges for us, which became the site logo… We use it on all of our Twitter images (that get reposted here), and he’s got some smart ideas about things we do in the future. Or at least they seem like good ideas when we’re three sheets to the wind in the South Western