10,000,000th Page View Contest! Prize: Red Exquisites Signed by Bill Kalush!

[TheDirkPitt]

12/21/13

[HandSkillz]

I'll guess December 20th 2013.

[Curt]

Daily Update:     9,733,179

[Curt]

Daily Update:     9,744,207

[Don Boyer]

Daily Update:     9,744,207

BTW: thanks for these updates, Curt!  I appreciate it a lot.

[Nurul]

Ah I'm such an idiot  I wasn't paying attention, I was thinking 10,000,000 post, not page views. Doh 

[Curt]

Daily Update:     9,744,207

BTW: thanks for these updates, Curt!  I appreciate it a lot.

No worries mate.

Ah I'm such an idiot  I wasn't paying attention, I was thinking 10,000,000 post, not page views. Doh 

We would need Don to stop slacking so much and actually post a bit to do that. 

[Don Boyer]

Ah I'm such an idiot  I wasn't paying attention, I was thinking 10,000,000 post, not page views. Doh 

We would need Don to stop slacking so much and actually post a bit to do that. 

I've already posted nearly 14% of all the posts on this board!  Done as an average that includes all of the lurkers who've never posted, the average is slightly better than one post per five days.  In that same time frame, I produce nearly SEVENTY-SIX posts on average...

The board's been running approximately 800 days (last week of September, 2012) and to date has almost 84,400 posts.  That's 105.5 posts on average per day.  Assuming that rate remained the same, we wouldn't hit post #10,000,000 until the 94,787th day of operation, or approximately 260 YEARS from opening day...  That would be the year 2273 CE - it is highly unlikely that anyone alive and posting here will live to see that day, and in fact by then the Internet will probably be replaced with some wholly different technology not yet invented, just as we don't do much communicating by telegraph or signal fires these days...

[Curt]

Bit of a later update today: 9,762,844

[anhedonia]

Boxing Day it is then - Dec 26th.
(It's the day I go out to fight everyone!)

[Curt]

Creeping up on 9.8! Daily update:  9,772,558

[Don Boyer]

Boxing Day it is then - Dec 26th.
(It's the day I go out to fight everyone!)

You mean you literally go boxing - and only on Boxing Day?? 

I updated the chart to include your entry.

Creeping up on 9.8! Daily update:  9,772,558

I estimate that we'll hit that mark perhaps two days from now, judging from the present rate of speed at which we're moving.

{Pssst!  You.  Yeah, you!  Come ovah here...}
{There's a big surprise comin' at 9,800,000 page views!  Keep it hush-hush f'now...}

[Curt]

Daily count:     9,786,045

[Don Boyer]

Daily count:     9,786,045

I was going to wait on this, but I'll launch it now!  I'm surprised no one caught this secret message, which I've now changed from beige to red:

Boxing Day it is then - Dec 26th.
(It's the day I go out to fight everyone!)

You mean you literally go boxing - and only on Boxing Day?? 

I updated the chart to include your entry.

Creeping up on 9.8! Daily update:  9,772,558

I estimate that we'll hit that mark perhaps two days from now, judging from the present rate of speed at which we're moving.

{Pssst!  You.  Yeah, you!  Come ovah here...}
{There's a big surprise comin' at 9,800,000 page views!  Keep it hush-hush f'now...}

If you don't believe it was there, go selecting text in the original message and see what happens... 

Anyway - Some people have commented about how they think someone's inflating the page views in order to trigger the 10,000,000th view earlier than normally would have occurred without a contest.  I also noticed that some of you, not realizing how quickly page views go by, made some REALLY, REALLY distant future guesses which, if someone is indeed juicing the guesses, means you don't stand a chance.

Effective NOW, you may make a second entry!  It's still a matter of choosing the correct date and remember that if you aren't the only one to guess the correct date, you'll be in a random drawing with the others who guess the same date.  PLEASE mark your second entry as "Second Entry" in the first line of your post.

I did this to more effectively level the playing field and give the wild guessers a better shot.  In addition, as a nice little consolation prize, I'm throwing in three Bicycle Americana decks - these will go to one person in a random drawing of all the LOSING guesses!  So even if you lose, you might just win!  (I'm feeling the Christmas spirit - and I have a LOT of Bicycle Americanas...)

AT THE MOMENT that Curt reports the 8PM EST count exceeds 9,900,000 - NO MORE ENTRIES WILL BE ACCEPTED.

[badpete69]

Second Entry

12/21/13

[volantangel]

Second Entry

29/12/13

[Don Boyer]

Chart is updated - please verify your picks on the chart.

[Knobz1]

Second Entry

12/31/2013

[PurpleIce]

First Entry - 22 Dec 

[Nurul]

Second entry

20th December 2013

[Don Boyer]

First Entry - 22 Dec 

You still get a second entry like everyone else...  You could use it two ways:

1) If you're super-confident you picked the correct day, double down on that day and you'll have double the odds in the random drawing, or
2) If you aren't completely certain, pick a second day, perhaps next to the first, to broaden your chances of being in a winning-date drawing in the first place.

[Rob Wright]

First entry
12/24/2013   

[Siegismyname]

Second Entry:

22 Dec 2013

[Leif]

Second entry:
Dec 30 2013

[Lukeout]

jan 22nd