Okay, I told you all there would be good news at 8 PM EST and here it is! While it may not be good news for your personally, if this doesn’t give you a warm and fuzzy feeling all over, then I’m not sure what will… other than maybe a Nexus in your hand
Well folks, we did it – thanks to YOU!
In this season of giving, I think we can all agree that we have received a great deal of enjoyment, entertainment and information from what started as a single Pre-Release post on August 23rd. We are now past 68,000 posts in this thread, the receiving is just about over… and it’s high time we gave something back.
A quick disclaimer and apology to those who wanted to participate and would have, but didn’t know about it: I am profusely sorry. But please understand that we were somewhat restricted in who we could contact and how. So if we managed to do all this without almost anybody knowing… then, actually, it was a raging success.
Let's face it: Moderating a forum is tough work. Moderating an EPIC forum - with tens of thousands of posts and over a MILLION views is really tough work!
And while we would never intentionally want to slight EarlyMon, OTD or any of the other Mods in the thread, I think almost all of us can agree that STEVEN58 has been our Main Moderator and go-to guy from post #1 of this record breaking thread.
No amount of hitting that “Thanks” button can ever adequately show our deep appreciation for the time and extraordinary effort Steven has put into moderating us, keeping us updated, keeping us (mostly) on topic, and keeping us off each other’s throats.
(Except OTD, who actually enjoys being at other people’s throats… but that’s a different story…)
Steven58 has done such an incredible job as lead Moderator in this monumental and record-shattering thread that many of us did the unthinkable. We snuck around. We PM’d one another. We got RARE permission from Rob & Phases to do something that, to my knowledge, has never been done… and may never happen again. So, with further ado…
Steven? Boss?
A bunch of us chipped in and we’re buying you your Galaxy Nexus!
That’s right! We messaged one another, whispered behind your back, scrounged up spare change from our sofas, and contributed to the cause. And we gathered up enough money to get you your beloved Nexus!
And while I may have done the legwork and gathered the dimes and quarters, I can’t take credit for the idea. You can blame a kind-hearted Premium Member named jruther2 for that one. He approached me, I approached Phases, who consulted with Rob and gave us rare permission to proceed under limited conditions. Conditions were met and our objective was achieved!
Anyway Steven, your Nexus is officially PAID FOR! Whoo hoooooo
Thanks to ALL our Moderators for doing an excellent job in maintaining this thread… but the trophy has to go to Steven, our head coach and Main Man!
So back to our regularly scheduled programming of joy and cheer for everyone. And just to make sure I include everyone THIS time:
Merry non-descript Winter Solsti-Christma-Kwaanz-ukkah!
 
Well done sirs and maams. Well done.
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