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Dear Tom
I was doing the anniversary's and came across the most important anniversary of all .
is nearly three years old, a toddler in human years, but an elder in computer time.
I wasn't in on the initial few days of its infancy, so I can't tell the folks what prompted you and Brook and Christy to descide what the internet needed was yet another Atkins Support Board, but I do know that what evolved was the best support board on the web.
Just look at it Tom, would you have invisioned way back then, that in three short years, you touched the lives of 22,000 members. Would have have dreamed you'd be dealing with 280,000 posts (OMG, thats over a quarter of a million!!!) Would you have even considered that you would end up owning the most popular board on the internet.
I know it's the best cause I've visited most of them, I've even joined a few and I've seen them drop out of sight, become cliques and even offer bad advise.
What other board decided that regardless of what Atkins.com advised, we would stick to DANDR and use it as our guide. LOL, now thats not saying we haven't had some arguments over some issues. Folks have joined just to save us from the evils of Atkins. We've had discussions on if we really need to eat veggies, the carb count of bitter melon and just about every other strange vegetable on the market. We've argued about candida, fact or fiction and debated water, sugar alcohols, exercise and just about every word that the good Doctor wrote as been mulled over and discussed right here on ADBB. New folks coming to ADBB have the experience of all of that to fall back on.
What other board caters to members from around the world. I once counted that we had folks from 15 different countries and that was over a year ago. We have MODs from at least 6 different countries. We even have a sister board in Spanish.
What other board deals openly with very serious medical and health issues some which are caused by our own obesity, some with hinder our weightloss. We can and do talk openly about everthing from cholesterol levels to emotional eating.
What other board pushes exercise to folks who haven't taken a walk in 10 years and when what board cheers and applauds them when they walk to the corner and back.
What other board helps folks with computer problems, menu ideas, bootcamp, and gives out awards and Judoes.
I know the MODs do a great job and the Admins are wonderful, but you keep this board up to date. You search for newer and better software, you pay the license fees, you constantly update the equipment and you never ask for anything in return. You'll even teach us to play poker if we want.
You are to power behind this board, and we, unfortunately, don't say thank you enough.
So thanks Tom, I know that we've given you headaches, I know I've been a royal pain, I know we've been attacted by spammers and I know you sometimes want to pull the plug and go home. But you don't. You hang in there and continue to give us the best there is.
I was doing the anniversary's and came across the most important anniversary of all .
is nearly three years old, a toddler in human years, but an elder in computer time. I wasn't in on the initial few days of its infancy, so I can't tell the folks what prompted you and Brook and Christy to descide what the internet needed was yet another Atkins Support Board, but I do know that what evolved was the best support board on the web.
Just look at it Tom, would you have invisioned way back then, that in three short years, you touched the lives of 22,000 members. Would have have dreamed you'd be dealing with 280,000 posts (OMG, thats over a quarter of a million!!!) Would you have even considered that you would end up owning the most popular board on the internet.
I know it's the best cause I've visited most of them, I've even joined a few and I've seen them drop out of sight, become cliques and even offer bad advise.
What other board decided that regardless of what Atkins.com advised, we would stick to DANDR and use it as our guide. LOL, now thats not saying we haven't had some arguments over some issues. Folks have joined just to save us from the evils of Atkins. We've had discussions on if we really need to eat veggies, the carb count of bitter melon and just about every other strange vegetable on the market. We've argued about candida, fact or fiction and debated water, sugar alcohols, exercise and just about every word that the good Doctor wrote as been mulled over and discussed right here on ADBB. New folks coming to ADBB have the experience of all of that to fall back on.
What other board caters to members from around the world. I once counted that we had folks from 15 different countries and that was over a year ago. We have MODs from at least 6 different countries. We even have a sister board in Spanish.
What other board deals openly with very serious medical and health issues some which are caused by our own obesity, some with hinder our weightloss. We can and do talk openly about everthing from cholesterol levels to emotional eating.
What other board pushes exercise to folks who haven't taken a walk in 10 years and when what board cheers and applauds them when they walk to the corner and back.
What other board helps folks with computer problems, menu ideas, bootcamp, and gives out awards and Judoes.
I know the MODs do a great job and the Admins are wonderful, but you keep this board up to date. You search for newer and better software, you pay the license fees, you constantly update the equipment and you never ask for anything in return. You'll even teach us to play poker if we want.
You are to power behind this board, and we, unfortunately, don't say thank you enough.
So thanks Tom, I know that we've given you headaches, I know I've been a royal pain, I know we've been attacted by spammers and I know you sometimes want to pull the plug and go home. But you don't. You hang in there and continue to give us the best there is.
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