There may or may not be others mentioned here. I only mention Mray901 in the title, because, to be honest, he kind of is awesome.  He is one of the reasons I've enjoyed my job so much, especially after the relaunch Oct/Nov of 2009 when we opened up the community to everyone.

I heart you guys.

My expectations ranged from rude and/or crickets chirping to exaltation.  I was clueless.  In the time since then, we've seen the Old Timers come back (I let them have their own group, I was so happy to see them), we've had probably three significant spam attacks, three different video players, a slew of bug fixes (and some inadvertently created), near-million stories, added threaded comments (twice), had cover reveals that crashed the site (probably more than once), I can't tell you how many changes/updates to how the stuff behind the scenes is working, and the list continues to grow.  And all through this - what have you guys shown me?  That with very few exceptions (and only a few regrets), you've been a rock solid community that I am very thankful to be a part of.

So.  There you go.  I tweeted (and removed seconds later,  but Mray901 is too fast) about what my next blog should be about, and he said I should do it on why he is so awesome.  So I kind of just did.  Now here's 10 more reasons why the entire community is awesome.  In some kind of order!  In statistical form!

1. 1500 comments.  Yes.  That is awesome.
2. Over 500,000 users.  Hello.
3. Over 700,000 posts.  That's some reading you have to do.
4. Over 10,000 errors thrown. 50,000 forum threads!  That's not bad.
5. Over 140,000 contest entries (ya'll tryin' to win ***)
6. 2,000 Guides pages (you know we have those, right?)
7. 3 users over 20,000 points: colton2658, eyros2k, and Meta77
8. Top 3 editors (points-wise, at the time I looked it up just now): Meagan (12,955), Tim (12,892), and Phil (12,715)
9. 3,270,749 total points have been rewarded (as of this second, 6:06 PM CST 2/1/2011)
10. Editor with fewest points: Ben Hanson (1,340).  Runner-up (since Ben doesn't count, he's still new): Bryan (3,415) [Note: I also didn't include now-defunct Nick Ahrens or our EIC because I like my job.]

OK, so some of these may seem big, or some of them small - but we're growing.  We're building this from scratch.  While we've been around for a while - we've never tried to compete.  And we're a VERY small operation.  Our full-time GameInformer.com-only IT staff equals 3.  We're a company of fewer than 50 employees (what you see in the back of the magazine is it).  We wouldn't even be where we are now if we didn't have awesome members who create their own cults - so while Mray901 is a part - you are ALL awesome.

Now back to work, slaves!