It's silly, but what was happening that day??

[2dueces]

Archive took over the program and started answering itself. ( Old Net54 joke)

[sbfinley]

The Mastro shill bid list was released in early 2016. Closest guess I have.

[Tom S.]

I'll bet it had something to do with that Battlefield dude...

The guy that would doctor scans on eBay to turn a VGEX card into NM, shill bid his auctions, etc. Then when he would get called out about it, he would always have a snarky response. If I remenmber right, he went so far as to threaten people with bodily harm whenever he was losing an argument over something trivial.

Fun times!

[midmo]

The Democratic debates were that night and it was a Sunday night in the middle of winter. Probably just happened to be a lot of people at home.

[Steve D]

In addition to the democrat debate, an arctic cold front hit the northeast:

(From weather.gov):

January 17-19, 2016 Snow Event
Heavy Lake Effect Snow Hits Northeast Ohio and Northwest Pennsylvania

An arctic cold front moved east across the Great Lakes Region on Sunday January 17th, ushering in the coldest air of the season. Most of northern Ohio received a light coating of snow as this system moved through, with snowfall totals ranging from a trace in Toledo to several inches of snow across the snowbelt region of northeast Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania. Heavy lake effect snow then developed on Sunday night and continued at times through Tuesday as a prolonged period of west to northwest flow set up across Lake Erie. Lake Erie is experiencing below normal ice coverage this winter due to warm temperatures in December and early January. The lake was mostly ice free east of the islands which supplied the necessary moisture to maintain a prolonged period of lake effect snow. Westerly winds of 10 to 20 mph with gusts to 30 mph accompanied the snow. Areas outside of the snowbelt may have escaped the snow but did not escape the cold as wind chill values dropped to between zero and -17 on Sunday night.


Steve

[midmo]

Plus there were a couple NFL playoff games. A lot of sports fans watching TV and screwing around on the internet. I'm almost surprised there were only 8k. 🙂