I'm pleased to announce that the winners of the Post-of-the-month competition for July 2011, as determined by ratings by our members, are: Winner (100 shares): blythburgh for the post in the topic Re: Amy Winehouse, 27, found dead with 19294 votes Runner-up (25 shares): kevinchess1 for the post in t...

See chart below.

Time for our regular update as to how many imutual shares have been issued to members. Here are updated totals:

Shares allocated to members as at 6/8/2011

Pending: 271500
Awarded: 277747

Sorry for the lateness of the response to this one. Holiday 'n all that :oops: Firstly, let me say that I'm always grateful for suggestions about improving the site, and enhancements such as the Google +1 button and Facebook "Like" button are going to be added, we just want to work out the best way ...

I'm sure that most posters here will agree that Kev's monthly quizzes are a highlight of the site, and it's very generous of him to give his time (and scratchies) to organise them. As a result, he does regularly feature in our POTM prizes but it occurs to me that members who make such significant co...

See chart below for how well we're dealing with your claims for missing/incorrect transactions.... In response to comments from some of you, we're now showing the total number of claims involved. As you can see, it's a very small number which in part reflects the modest (but growing) level of transa...

The screen grab is my admin screen "Award" is where I click to dish out the shares

I'm pleased to announce that the winners of the Post-of-the-month competition for August 2011, as determined by ratings by our members, are: Winner (100 shares): kevinchess1 for the post in the topic Quizy with 28328 votes Runner-up (25 shares): underdog for the post in the topic Free Call Cards wit...

It's pleasing to see how the level of activity in the forum is increasing - see chart below Excluding posts by staff, we've seen an increase from just 67 posts back in August 2010 to 1245 in August 2011. And September looks like it's going to set a new record :) Of course, these are still small numb...

Just an observation - the winning post was only thanked by one person, compared to six for the second place post. But because that person had more shares than all those other six put together, that post won. I'm still keen that we use shares (or some other method) to determine the 'quality' of thank...