2020: The Year in Review

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2020's Top Users

Most Time Reading

User	Hours Read
@zfirphdn	1.13k
@Mindysan33	980
@FGD135	947
@subextraordinaire	916
@the_borderer	834
@Brainspore	809
@RickMycroft	761
@74hc595	734
@Melizmatic	709
@teknocholer	702

Most Topics

User	Topics
@thomdunn	878
@AndreaJames	518
@garethb2	495
@Rusty_Blazenhoff	430
@Carla_Sinclair	213
@mr_raccoon	125
@SeamusBellamy	78
@Clive_T	70
@MissCellania	61
@Espry0n	53

Most Replies

User	Replies
@FGD135	8.75k
@Mindysan33	7.89k
@KathyPartdeux	6.19k
@Brainspore	5.91k
@RickMycroft	5.16k
@Melizmatic	4.71k
@milliefink	4.41k
@docosc	4.34k
@DukeTrout	4.3k
@Akimbo_NOT	4.27k

Most Replied to

User	Replies
@Brainspore	5.09k
@Mindysan33	4.8k
@KathyPartdeux	4.09k
@FGD135	3.08k
@milliefink	2.94k
@Melizmatic	2.9k
@docosc	2.86k
@RickMycroft	2.59k
@Akimbo_NOT	2.57k
@DukeTrout	2.5k

Most Likes Given

User	Likes
@DukeTrout	83k
@ChuckV	75k
@FGD135	61.8k
@Mindysan33	57.3k
@74hc595	55.9k
@subextraordinaire	53.8k
@TobinL	50.1k
@gracchus	44.7k
@HMSGoose	41.9k
@Melizmatic	41k

Most Likes Received

User	Likes
@Brainspore	83.1k
@Mindysan33	80k
@KathyPartdeux	70.4k
@Melizmatic	64.8k
@docosc	57.5k
@milliefink	50.7k
@FGD135	50.4k
@RickMycroft	43.5k
@Akimbo_NOT	42.9k
@Tamsin_Bailey	39.6k

Most Visits

User	Days Visited
@Logolepsy	366
@gracchus	366
@Ratel	366
@anansi133	366
@chgoliz	366
@Mindysan33	366
@teknocholer	366
@milliefink	366
@Immutable_Mike	366
@cheem	366

Daily Visits

Days Visited	Users
366	38
365	16
364	12
363	10
362	6
361	7
360	3
359	7
358	1
357	7

Users Granted the Empathetic Badge

@waterloonie @jra @thekaz @David_Guilbeaul @futnuh @Robbo @TripleE @jhbadger @zuludaddy @MrHarley @CoffeeStar @Professor59 @TheRizz @Mark_Sniadecki @lastchance

And 50 more...

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Top #boing Topics

Most Read

User	Topic	Hours Read
	Annotating JK Rowling's bonkers anti-Trans rant	106
	Karen who can't believe she has to wear a mask to enter a supermarket confronts store manager	98
	Watch this bike messenger break pretty much every traffic law	94
	Annotating Glenn Greenwald's sudden resignation from The Intercept	87
	It's not ok to use the term "slave," and the "B" in Black should be capitalized	86

Most Liked

User	Topic	Likes
	Guy deals with little kid who sets off his driveway cam every day	28
	An anarchist community bookstore had the best response to getting robbed	24
	The mystery behind the "lost colony" of Roanoke has finally been answered, and it's honestly kind of disappointing.	24
	After nearly a year, Greta Thunberg finally gets Trump back for mocking her on Twitter	23
	The Merriam-Webster Dictionary has officially changed the definition of "racism."	22

Most Replies

User	Topic	Replies
	Karen who can't believe she has to wear a mask to enter a supermarket confronts store manager	198
	Watch this bike messenger break pretty much every traffic law	175
	Right-wing websites are weighing the pros and cons of letting people die from coronavirus to help the economy	170
	Racist Karen screams at woman exercising in park: 'This is not your home! We do not want you here!'	160
	Deutsche Bank thinks people should pay a 5% "privilege tax" to work from home	156

Most Popular

User	Topic	Score
	Guy deals with little kid who sets off his driveway cam every day	36
	The mystery behind the "lost colony" of Roanoke has finally been answered, and it's honestly kind of disappointing.	33
	An anarchist community bookstore had the best response to getting robbed	33
	The Lincoln Project's new video has just one goal -- to freak out Trump	33
	After nearly a year, Greta Thunberg finally gets Trump back for mocking her on Twitter	32

Most Bookmarked

User	Topic	Bookmarks
	Nope, men and women aren’t equally sexualized in comics	18
	An overworked US postal worker shares what life is like delivering Amazon packages	17
	Watch this hilarious dismantling of Jordan Peterson's philosophical woo	5

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Top #general Topics

Most Read

User	Topic	Hours Read
	Ongoing coronavirus happenings	2.2k
	Good (Encouraging) Stuff	261
	COVID-19 isolation activities	173
	Covidiot protestors vs. Antifa	88
	Are you okay?	81

Most Liked

User	Topic	Likes
	Thank you, @docosc	65
	Hey, Y'all!	51
	Good (Encouraging) Stuff	40
	Are you okay?	33
	Life After the Virus	31

Most Replies

User	Topic	Replies
	Ongoing coronavirus happenings	8.9k
	:rainbow: Unicorn Chasers :rainbow:	2.6k
	Odd Stuff (Part 1)	2.58k
	Happy Mutants food topic	1.84k
	Good (Encouraging) Stuff	1.03k

Most Popular

User	Topic	Score
	Thank you, @docosc	53
	Hey, Y'all!	46
	Good (Encouraging) Stuff	43
	Are you okay?	38
	Life After the Virus	37

Most Bookmarked

User	Topic	Bookmarks
	Ongoing coronavirus happenings	37
	Odd Stuff (Part 1)	17
	Fuck Today	16
	:rainbow: Unicorn Chasers :rainbow:	15
	Happy Mutants food topic	12

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Top #wrath Topics

Most Read

User	Topic	Hours Read
	🍊🍊🍊🤡🤡 Even More Trumpian Events 🤡🤡🍊🍊🍊 (Part 1)	1.34k
	2020 Uprising: Enough is Enough	1.08k
	Political fall out from Covid-19 pandemic	340
	God damn you 2020	243
	Biden Transition Team/Appointments Watch	65

Most Liked

User	Topic	Likes
	Discussion of “Defund the Police” slogan	52
	Is the Electoral College still needed?	36
	Getting their due: Misogyny and Women in music in the 80s/90s	32
	God damn you 2020	32
	Eric Idle on Monty Python Tweet: "I have nothing to do with this"	28

Most Replies

User	Topic	Replies
	🍊🍊🍊🤡🤡 Even More Trumpian Events 🤡🤡🍊🍊🍊 (Part 1)	5k
	2020 Election Thread (formerly: 2020 Presidential Candidates Thread) (Part 1)	4.14k
	The Gallery of Trump-Inspired Assholes (Part 1)	3.04k
	2020 Uprising: Enough is Enough	2.67k
	:fu: :tangerine: :clown_face: A Continuing Round-Up of Trumpian Events :fu: :tangerine: :clown_face:	2.34k

Most Popular

User	Topic	Score
	Discussion of “Defund the Police” slogan	47
	God damn you 2020	39
	2020 Uprising: Enough is Enough	38
	Is the Electoral College still needed?	38
	Getting their due: Misogyny and Women in music in the 80s/90s	36

Most Bookmarked

User	Topic	Bookmarks
	A Round Up of Resistance to Trump (Part 1)	31
	A round up of Trumpian events 🖕🍊🤡	25
	The Gallery of Trump-Inspired Assholes (Part 1)	15
	☭ Sup Marxists? ☭	14
	:fu: :tangerine: :clown_face: A Continuing Round-Up of Trumpian Events :fu: :tangerine: :clown_face:	11

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Top #links Topics

Most Read

User	Topic	Hours Read
	The Dow is on track for its worst weekly slide since the 2008 financial crisis	31

Most Liked

User	Topic	Likes
	It’s my birthday, have a present	17
	Mcafee Arrested	12
	Cory Doctorow's new blog	11
	Our Doom is Upon US	10

Most Replies

User	Topic	Replies
	The Dow is on track for its worst weekly slide since the 2008 financial crisis	119
	The Flying Train, Germany, 1902	16
	All U.S. troops to withdraw from Afghanistan under peace deal	14
	Males More Likely to Achieve Lasting Immortality	14
	The Great Bucatini Shortage of 2020	12

Most Popular

User	Topic	Score
	It’s my birthday, have a present	27
	Cory Doctorow's new blog	25
	The Flying Train, Germany, 1902	23
	Males More Likely to Achieve Lasting Immortality	22
	The Dow is on track for its worst weekly slide since the 2008 financial crisis	21

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Top #craft Topics

Most Read

User	Topic	Hours Read
	Mask Up!	19

Most Liked

User	Topic	Likes
	Mask Up!	16

Most Replies

User	Topic	Replies
	Making, Crafting, Creating... aka Whatcha workin' on?	575
	Mask Up!	66
	The Navy List	50
	2D Art, Images, Doodles, Sketches, Paintings, Diagrams, What-Have-Yous	37
	@Knoxblox's Blank Canvas	23

Most Popular

User	Topic	Score
	Mask Up!	29
	Home haircut hijinks	21
	Electrical component giveaway	11
	Is.... is this figure a bootleg? - or - Mister.44 made a meme	10

Most Bookmarked

User	Topic	Bookmarks
	Making, Crafting, Creating... aka Whatcha workin' on?	16
	Cooking (not just dinner)	8
	The BBS Cookbook	5

[Melizmatic]

[GulliverFoyle]

…but too few to mention.

[zfirphdn]

Aw, isn’t that sweet—the first communication of any sort that I’ve received in 2021 is an email from System at the bbs Happy New Year, System!

And Happy New Year to all bbsers! May we continue to be informed and enlightened and invigorated by each other’s contributions here

[teknocholer]

Edith Piaf - Non, Je ne regrette rien

[ClutchLinkey]

The “days visited” threw me until I remembered that 2020 had a whole extra day to cram full of misery.
Happy New Year, everyone!

[docosc]

Same. “366? WTF?” But yeah, of course 2020 would get an extra day. Absolutely on par.

[Melizmatic]

Yes, 'twas was a leap year as well.

Thank fuck, it’s finally over; hopefully, all ‘the beer holding’ is done too.

[orenwolf]

I’m always amazed by the number of folks who visit nearly every day, and the amount everyone reads, contributes, and appreciates the responses of others.

I feel privileged to play a role in helping to keep the BBS a civil, constructive place for the community to have discussions. But more than that, I am immensely appreciative that so many of our prolific readers and contributors also participate heavily in helping with moderation as Regulars and Leaders as well.

Thank you all for choosing to spend your time with us, and for helping to foster what I sincerely believe to be one of the best places to hold discussions online. Here’s to 2021, a year which, with any luck, will be a lot more about wonderful things than 2020 was.

[milliefink]

@orenwolf

what I sincerely believe to be one of the best places to hold discussions online.

I believe that too! And my sincere thanks to you for being such a huge reason that’s true.

BEST MOD EVAH

[GulliverFoyle]

@orenwolf

Thank you all for choosing to spend your time with us, and for helping to foster what I sincerely believe to be one of the best places to hold discussions online.

Part of what I love about this community is that it reminds of the heyday of blogs when there were a lot of bloggers and blog commenters who cared about their communities, or places like the some of the better private Yahoo groups and usenet newsgroups before them. There’s still some around, like John Scalzi’s Whatever blog, but I’m proud of us for achieving that on a scale that I don’t know if exists anywhere else on the internet. Having an unbroken succession of the best mods we could hope for has been integral.

@orenwolf

Here’s to 2021, a year which, with any luck, will be a lot more about wonderful things than 2020 was.

[Melizmatic]

Good mods do make all the difference to a successful online community; Thanks @orenwolf, for all you do.

[Wally]

It really has improved. The squirrelly days that Falcor and Antinous presided over have changed tremendously, as the internet itself has changed. Thank you for keeping the peace and building it better here. It’s a better place now, which is why I came back. And it has made me better behaved, as well

[IronEdithKidd]

I am relieved to not be on any of those lists.

@orenwolf: Thank you for all of your hard work, may your load lighten in this shiny new year.