What's your Monster number?

[frankbmd]

This dinky little thread enters its fifth year today.

The fourth year resulted in a decrease in the number of posts (less than one/day for the first time), but we are still adding 20 cards per day and now have 53185.9 cards recorded.

We continue to add 43-45 new sets each year, since year 1.

Perhaps the most remarkable statistic though is the number of views.

In year 1 there were 27567 views, in year 2 there were 33952 views, in year 3 there were 48619 views and in the past twelve months there have been 74610 views. That certainly looks like an exponential progression to me.

The appeal mystifies me at times, but I do realize that in some perverse way this thread becomes a motivator for those trying to complete the set and for others it seems to be a right of passage after joining the forum. I am sure there are other reasons as well. As I have said before it initially was not intended to be a perpetual motion device. It was also not intended to be a pain in the neck for those who scoff at mere White Borderites.

Someday it will end, but I'm not sure how or why.