Number of Posts: 2,042

Number of Comments:  72,020

Number of Polls: 103

Number of Twitter Followers (PLEASE FOLLOW US!!!): 299

Number of RSS Readers: 598

Average Number of Comments Per Post: 35.2

Number of Spam Items: 62,905

Number of Days cVillain’s Been Around:  687

Average Number of Posts Per Day:   2.9

Number of Unique Visitors in Last 30 Days: 18,144

Number of Page Views in the Last 30 Days: 105,414

Number of Page Views and Visits by Admins Included in Stats: 0

Total Number of Page Views Since Inception: 2.3 million

Total Number of Unique Visitors Since Inception: 238,191

Total Number of Visits Since Inception: 650,000

Average Time on Site Per Visit: 5:46 Minutes

Total Number of  Hours Wasted on cVillain (5.75 minutes x 650,000 visits / 60):  62,291 hours

Total Amount of GDP Wasted on cVillain (assumes average income of $31,007 and 2,000 hours worked per year) :   $1 million

Number of Years Spent Reading cVillain:  7.11 years

Number of Countries Which Have Not Visited cVillain (North Korea, Chad, Greenland, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Niger, Central African Republic, Gabon, Congo – Kinshasa, Zimbabwe, Malawi ,Somalia): 17

Percentage of the World’s Countries That Have Visited cVillian (182 of 199): 91.5%

Percentage of Our Visits from Charlottesville Area: > 65%

I challenge any local website to the numbers competition. Directory listings spam and events calendars don’t count. Let me know if you want to see any more numbers!

Photo: Dave Bullock (eecue)

While it’s not exactly the end of 2008, we figured this list probably wouldn’t change in the next two weeks.  Looking through our analytics account, we’re happy to say we will reach almost 1 million unique visitors to cVillain in 2008.

We excluded Free For Alls from this list.  Think you remember the top posts?  Think again, some of these results may surprise you.

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In case anyone forgot, anyone can write articles for cVillain. It’s as easy as 1-2-3.  The only rules are no advertising and no personal attacks.  Have fun!  The instructions are below:

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Just so we all can remember what is was like to be mischievous children.  Fill in the blanks and paste the entire story in the commentary:

(Person’s Name) was (verb) (adverb) on the downtown mall yesterday.  I noticed (he/she) was (verb) a pair of (noun) in (his/her) (noun).  When I asked where (he/she) was going, (he/she) said,

“I have a (noun) with (Person’s Name), owner of (name of establishment) on the Corner.

I responded, “Don’t you mean that crazy person (Person’s Name)?”

“No, you must be thinking of (Person’s Name)”

“Is it really true that (Person’s Name) (verb) (his/her) (farm animal name)?”

“That is completely and utterly (adjective), to think that means that you are ( adjective)and need to be given some type of (noun)”

This conversation got a little too (adjective), so I continued (verb) (direction) on Main Street.  I ran into (Person’s Name) sitting on the floor (verb) (noun) for a group of (noun).  I thought, “how weird that cville has its own (noun)”.

I heard a (adjective) noise and turned around to see our own city’s (noun) (verb) (adverb) with a (adjective) looking (noun).

I had never seen such a (adjective) (noun) in my whole entire life.  It was even (adjective) than that time at the (local band name-look up on muse) concert in (venue) when I caught the lead singer backstage (verb) a (noun) with a (noun).

I was so (adjective) that I (verb) like a (noun).  The day was becoming (adjective) and (adjective), I just had to have a (alcoholic beverage).  What better place to go for happy hour than (noun) in (cville neighborhood name)?

I quickly found myself at (bar/restaurant/lounge) telling the (adjective) (noun) that I would be joined by three (noun) for (noun).  Being that ( bar/restaurant/lounge) is known for its (adjective) customer service/friendliness, it only took us a whopping(number) minutes to get a table.

As our (waiter/waitress) approached our table, we were completely (verb) by the sheer (noun) of (his/her) (noun).  My trusted (noun) was quick to (verb), “I haven’t seen (noun) that (adjective) since (month) (year) in Vegas where we accidentally entered into  (adjective)-looking (noun).  We took one look at (noun)’s (noun) and ran for our lives.”

[pic from Looking Glass on Flickr]

It seems we are more frequently seeing things that we would consider personal attacks.  It’s been very frustrating for all of us lately to see people taking opinions and turning them into personal issues.  This is not acceptable and it’s not something that we’ve ever encouraged or want to have on this site.

If you are new to the site, we ask you to read and abide by The Code which we initially asked you to follow because of the same issues we are seeing now.  This site is notorious for being harsh to new commenters, whether we want to admit it or not.  We can’t force you to do anything; and we will only moderate obvious personal attacks, libel and slander. Part of the problem is people who aren’t vocal take things too personally, but we need to find a balance.

We’ve always wanted to make this site entertaining and informative for people.  Things will run off topic, but as we get more commenters and readers, we need to be more accepting of differences.

On the politics issue, we know some of you want it, but at the same time, we’re worried that the site will easily degrade into personal attacks.  Each time a national issue comes up, things inevitably trend towards personal altercations, not meaningful discussions about ideas.  There is a big difference.  There are plenty of sites you can go fight with Red or Blue people.  We don’t want to control things, but a lot of you have said in the past that politics spoils the party, and we believe that.

On opinions about businesses, food and other relative things, take everything with a grain of salt. Our writers are not out to get anyone or to better themselves.  We want to make Charlottesville the best place to live, ever.  Think of a critique as informative and areas for improvement.  If our writers are wrong about something, the commenters will let you know.  This site is about interaction and we welcome everyone’s opinions, right or wrong.  The community wants HONEST reviews, so we will continue to give them.

As always this site is yours, so we want your feedback on these issues, but this is a call to action per se.  If you want to make cVillain a better, richer and more dynamic community, then you need to support it.  We are welcome to suggestions, but this is very frustrating that we have to continue to deal with these issues.  Please let us know your thoughts.

Some basic thoughts:

- New commenters: Don’t come in disputing a long time commenter.  Join the conversation with something supportive.  You can be critical, but be positive.

- Regulars:  Please accept other’s ideas.  Not everyone frequently comments online and most don’t want to defend themselves. If someone comes on and critiques you, brush it off.  They probably won’t comment again anyway.

- Everyone: Play nice, no personal attacks and let’s try to make this a better and more supportive community for everyone and everything in Charlottesville

It all started with Comment 120 in the latest Free for All.  Floozy said she now e-crushes on 26 World. It reminded me that I’ve had a lot of e-crushes on this site.. Lys, Floozy, Lu Sid and more that are super secret.

What is an E-Crush?

It’s a meaningless crush on someone that rarely goes fulfilled. Instead of normal crushes which desire looks, baby production potential and security, you value digital snark, alcoholic banter and wit.  Rumor has it that some e-crushes turn into real crushes, but this is very rare.

It’s come to my attention recently that the discussions on our fair board, particularly those of a frivolous yet mindlessly entertaining nature, are somewhat hard to break into. In fact, I’ve tested out a few aliai (yes, aliai, i made it up) in the past few weeks and found being a newbie somewhat boring, as all the jokes are extremely “inside” and hardly anybody takes the time to explain things. At best, you’ll get a link to an obscure, context-less archived post, which usually serves only to make things slightly more confusing.

But I’m not here to lecture anybody. I’m here to BE that archive to which we refer people. At the risk of making this site even more self-referential, I propose that we open this up to new people (there are 1400 readers today, ahem) to throw their proverbial hats into the internet. We’ll do it like this: I’ll make several broad, sweeping generalizations about cVillain and some of our favorite people, and then you all can jump in and talk about whatever it is… you DO here. I got all dolled up and used capital letters for this post, so help me out. Chime in with your own thoughts on cVillain, and let’s see if we can drag some new friends out of the tubework.

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A little birdie saw this around town and took a pic on the cell phone:

It is a rare occasion that a dish in cville almost succeeds in bringing me “back” to a country I have visited, and surprisingly I can thank Mono Loco this month for making it happen. Not too hungry the other night, but accompanying a friend of mine for dinner, I decided on trying the grilled corn appetizer, a new item (at least since the last time we let crazy monkeys cook for us) on the Mono Loco menu.

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