September 1st each year marks the anniversary of Pistonsforum.com. The forum first opened up for registration and posting on the morning of September 1st 2005.

Since that time, we've undergone a lot of growth and developed into a substantial community of fans, opinions and information.

What started out as a simple forum has grown into a 4 sport fantasy league community, 2 sister blogs (Human Victory Cigar (http://www.humanvictorycigar.com) and Bad Boy Summer Camp) (http://www.badboysummercamp.com), a catch all site to help members find us (www.pistonforum.com (http://www.pistonforum.com), no "s"), linkbacks from Wikipedia, Sports Illustrated, WDFN, and a strong relationship with the fan blog community (Need4Sheed (http://www.need4sheed.com), Detroit Bad Boys (http://www.detroitbadboys.com) and others).

We've developed an active staff group to oversee, manage and advise on forum issues/initiatives. We have 14 non-staff members with more than 1,000 posts, and easily average 100 logged in member visits per day during the season, with 40 more members posting at least once daily. PF.com has gone from being a single site on a server with dozens of sites, to being the largest site on a server we lease and is 3 times more powerful than the platform we started off with on September 1st 2005.

August traditionally is our slowest month, and as we now have two of these months in the books, I have some statistical information to show the growth and reach of the forum.

August 2006
4,255 Unique Visitors with 1045 Google Searches leading to PF.com

August 2007
7,635 Unique Visitors with 2,378 Google Searches leading to PF.com

In Calendar 2007 to date, we have served 4.3 million pages. Google claims to have 77,000 pages from this forum in their search engine.

As testament to our diversity, a significant portion of our non-US/Canadian traffic comes from Australia, Japan, Saudi Arabia, China, the Czech Republic, Taiwan, Austria, Latvia, Hong Kong, Germany and Great Britain.

Everyone who has posted, linked to, volunteered or participated on the forum has had a part in developing this tremendous fan resource.

Thank you. And Happy Birthday. :)

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awesome.. and in only 3 more days ill be celebrating my 21st birthday.

Happy Birthday pf.com!!!! :gift::party2:

It's been a great two years. The forum is very important to me. I love the articles, friendships, and of course the fantasy leagues.

Thanks to all who have contributed to make it so special. You folks are tops.:grouphug:

happy birthday PF. two years of meeting new friends, it's been fun and looking forward to more birthdays.... :cheers:

Happy B-Day PF.Com....

I am glad I stumbled upon this group of special folks when the forum was about 5 months old. You would have never guessed it was so young. It was and still is a great forum.

Looking forward to many years of friendships, Piston discussions, off topic banter.......and good laughs!


Keep up the good work Roscoe..

Happy birthday guys. A great place were like-minded (and not so like-minded) people can come together.

Continue the great work!

I remember when Microwave first mentioned starting this forum on the detnews site. I was so sick of the hot air over there that I couldn't wait for all this to happen. It has been even better than advertised. There are a lot of great people over here and it's one of the first places I log into every day.

Well done, Roscoe, and thanks to the staff and membership for making this a great place to discuss everything from fish heads to our beloved Pistons -- and everything in between.

I remember when Microwave first mentioned starting this forum on the detnews site. I was so sick of the hot air over there that I couldn't wait for all this to happen. It has been even better than advertised. There are a lot of great people over here and it's one of the first places I log into every day.

Well done, Roscoe, and thanks to the staff and membership for making this a great place to discuss everything from fish heads to our beloved Pistons -- and everything in between.

I was introduced to the forum in the exact same way - and it's crazy awesome that it's already been two years. Let's all go out for pizza!!!
:djparty:

This has been a very short two years. It seems like only yesterday but so much has happened.

This forum is still head and shoulders above most of the other ones I follow in terms of convenience and ease of use.

The guys here are pretty smart and pretty aware of all the ins and outs of sports. I still check in here several times each time I am on line, without fail.

Keep up the good work; it is an enjoyable place to visit.

oh my, time'e running pretty fast, huh? It's been 2 very nice years with all you guys. Many interesting posts and discussions, I discovered the Pistons from one more interesting perspective, thanks to this forum.
Thanks to everyone involved in this!

Happy Birthday PF.com!

...How do we spank this thing?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PF.com!

Thank you roscoe and all staff. This place is light-years ahead of the detnews forum and 99% percent of other forums and you guys make it happen.

Thank you to all members. Your perspectives, opinions, links, statistics, etc make great reading and food4thot. And the humor is priceless...from at least a few chuckles every day, to numerous belly-laughs. :D

Like zoo said...it is one of the first places I check out everyday. And it's usually the last I visit at the end of the day.

This is a great community. :)

Jeez, I'm out of town for a day and I miss the party? Any cake left?

Happy B-day PF.com!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PF:

It seems as though it was only yesterday when I would post on detnews and asking Microwave, "is the site up yet"? at least twice a day.

I was so glad to get off the detnews site.

Incidently, the site anniversary is only 3 days away from my birthday, therefore, I get to celebrate twice, yipee.

I love you woscoe, :):):):):):cheers::cheers::cheers::gift::gift::gif t::p_welldone::p_welldone::p_welldone::party::part y::party::party::burp::burp::djparty:

You are the absolute BEST.

I love this place. Happy B-Day PF.com! :)

Just think, 3 years ago, I thought you were just another nut on the Detnews place, and now, I can't remember the last time I even bothered to post there.

Happy Birthday
:cheers:

Thanks to Microwave and staffs. I love this place I love all the people here. Happy b'day.

Pardon me please, I'm always late.

I feel pretty lucky, I had only been reading the Detnews forum for a couple of weeks and was about ready to give up on the whole forum experience as a complete waste of time when someone mentioned pistonsforum was starting in a few days. From day one the difference was obvious and I have checked in almost every day since. You guys have helped restore my belief that most human beings are pretty smart.
Thank You Thank You.

I checked in at the Detnews every day for almost three years. I don't think I have checked in there for over a year.

Nice job Rosoe, and everyone else here who makes this the required morning read, afternoon wind-down, and bedtime story.

Better late than never....

:greenapple:HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY, PF.COM:greenapple:

:cheers::beer::p_welldone::party::party2::djparty: :victory::dancingparty::dance::thumb::cheerleader: :whoo::rockon:

Happy B'Day and congrats on the great accomplishment.

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EVERYBODY SAY..."bom-babababa-bom-babababa...."


I've got sunshine -hi- hine
On a cloudy day
When its cold outside
Ive got the month of may...

Well-el,
I guess
U say
What could
make
me
feel this way???

MY FORUM,FORUM,FORUM...

TALKIN BOUT MY FORUM..

FORUM!!!:afro:

HAppy Birthday, u sexy beast!