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Round 5: Another record broken 700+
Written by Tyme White on October 25, 2006
It’s almost 10am EST and we officially broke Round 4’s record of 700 sites. It’s humbling to see the excitement people have submitting their sites. Scrivs, Mike and I hopped on IRC last night (I watched the text fly by) and had some fun (we’ll be in there again today - not sure what time or if we’ll be in there at the same time). Good times but think about it. 2am there are people in our IRC chat room to laugh and joke with us. Awesome! We are so fortunate to have cool people like you supporting us. Thank you!
To those of you experiencing web hosting difficulties - submit your site. We aren’t seriously going through the sites right now so your host has time to restore your site. I make a point to check back a couple of times (not in the same day) so you do have time to get things together. Relax. Breathe. Think happy thoughts….
…because Scrivs, Mike and I are. Thank you!
October 25th, 2006 at 8:55 am
You guys rock!
October 25th, 2006 at 8:59 am
Crap!
No bag of jelly beans for me (or whatever the prize was).
Bummer.
October 25th, 2006 at 9:07 am
It is commendable that you take the time to seriously look at all sites submitted. I submitted, and it feels good to know that my site will be given a fair chance regardless of how many submissions there are. Very cool.
October 25th, 2006 at 9:10 am
Congrats. You guys deserve it.
A great network and a fab concept. Well done.
Better get a case of Red Bull and a comfy mouse, as I suspect you’ll be clicking through sites for quite some time.
October 25th, 2006 at 9:10 am
Over 700??
My chances are declining at a record pace!
As Cathy would say: AAAAACK!
October 25th, 2006 at 9:17 am
That’s awesome. Though I don’t think it was ever in doubt that you’d surpass 700 in round 5. I don’t envy you for having to look through all the submissions though.
October 25th, 2006 at 9:34 am
Best of luck in regards to plowing through all of those sites. If the rate of submission continues at that average rate, you’ll have close to 1500 sites to go through by the end of the day.
October 25th, 2006 at 9:48 am
Thats seriously impressive! Thanks to everyone for sharing their fantastic content, And thanks to the 9rules team for taking the time to go through all of our sites!
October 25th, 2006 at 9:54 am
Oh boy, someone’s going to get a headache sifting through all the blogs by the end of this.
October 25th, 2006 at 10:02 am
Meh, I already have a (mt) (gs) account so I feel like a winner just the same.
October 25th, 2006 at 10:07 am
I look forward to going through them all. All 800+ of them.
October 25th, 2006 at 10:22 am
I guess that there are a lot of sites like mine, but I really hope my blog offers something different to visitors. I know you guys are going to be looking over a lot of sites, but keep in mind the word potential.
October 25th, 2006 at 10:27 am
This says a lot about not only the network you have built and its credibility, but also about you for looking through each site and giving it a chance! Way to go!!
October 25th, 2006 at 10:44 am
Hey Tyme. I listened to you on the scrivstyme102 podcast last night. You have a perfect radio voice
So 800+ designs submitted… my guess was 951 submissions… looks like my number will be passed for sure.
Congrats on breaking a new record. From what Scrivs said in an earlier post, my submission was some where between 10 and 100
October 25th, 2006 at 10:49 am
you guys finally show up on irc and i miss it
October 25th, 2006 at 11:06 am
Hey you know! this is great…
but
I think I am not going to be close… on the number game…. 1158 was my number…. it will be way over that seems like….
My impression of the application process was that it was very easy… put your info and sumbit….
I thought for sure it would be much more harder than that…. like an essay questionnaire…or something to that extent….
I do have one question though… what percentage of the site will get in???? can you give us a rought guesstimation?
October 25th, 2006 at 11:47 am
Congratulations! You deserve the popularity. For 18 months I’ve poked around the internet trying to form a community in which I could feel both challenged and supported. A few people became dear blog friends, but what you’ve done here is the best of both worlds.
October 25th, 2006 at 12:12 pm
quick question; will you at some point kick blogs out of the network? No matter how good the quality of a blog is when it’s joining the network, the quality of it might decrease over time. I guess my question is; what does it take to be kicked out of the network?
October 25th, 2006 at 12:15 pm
Wonderful… great to know that Blogger/Blogspot sites may be given a fair chance to… er, it is, right?
October 25th, 2006 at 12:21 pm
2000 may not be that much of a stretch.
good luck, everyone.
October 25th, 2006 at 12:25 pm
It’s going to be in the thousands!
October 25th, 2006 at 12:31 pm
I wonder if the 9rules submission server is Y2KSubmission compatible?
I’m seriously thinking my guess of 951 was past hours ago.
October 25th, 2006 at 12:51 pm
I wish my site can get in
what is the 9rules IRC chanel?
October 25th, 2006 at 1:21 pm
That’s wonderful! I’m now part of the growing number of submissions!
October 25th, 2006 at 2:54 pm
Congratulations on your record breaking round. Just submitted, looking forward to it.
October 25th, 2006 at 3:13 pm
Sean: It’s not about design. At least, I hope not because I still have to prep my design.
October 25th, 2006 at 3:14 pm
Oh wow.
With any luck (for me, that is), it’ll hit about 1100 sites by midnight.
October 25th, 2006 at 5:51 pm
Do you have any idea how many submitted within five minutes of the opening?
I had a great time sitting here waiting for the clock on my computer to click over. I was through submitting by 12:04 a.m.
Cool!
October 25th, 2006 at 7:04 pm
I’m still betting on the 2,000+ submissions. What’s been created here at 9rules is worth being part of and this is the proof that everyone recognizes that. It’s a quality network based on quality of content. The cool thing is the side effect of people all over writing better posts just for sake of making it in. Content everywhere is rising to meet 9rules quality. That’s influence.
October 25th, 2006 at 10:56 pm
Well, why not.