Tony_CZARk 5 mon.ago

1st off I want to thank you all for being here! It is an absolute blessing to see how this community has grown in such a short time. 3 years ago I took over this subreddit with only. 146 members, and today we have eclipsed 32 freaking THOUSAND! I was posting 1 joke a day every day by myself. A busy week here was 4 or 5 people posting a week and maybe a dozen comments. This year, we had 7,744 posts and comments from 397 THOUSAND people that visited this community! I was very blessed to have several people become regularish posters with in 3 months or so and that is how I was able to get in touch with the invaluable u/Futch1 and u/moar-coffee-plz and bring them on board as mods. None of us had much experience, but we had and have a love for r/cleandadjokes. We were blessed last year with u/ThePlotWatcher joined us and integrate all the indexes and make this subreddit look as awesome and coordinated as it does! Thanks to Plot we will be incorporating the Cleandadjokes HALL OF FAME! I wonder if u/fizzmore will be in it 🤔 We have been blessed with so many regulars that posted and commented along the way and now are at a point to incorporate that growth with user flair. If you're interested in flair be it for browsing and upvoting, commenting or posting leave a comment below! This summer I was forced to step away from reddit for a few months and just recently came back after my account was hacked. I was absolutely blown away by the growth during that time, over 12 thousand people joined in 4/5 months. THANK YOU! We were "blessed" by reddit telling us we needed new mods and are so thankful that we were, as it allowed us to bring in new mods that have a passion for r/cleandadjokes that supercedes mod experience. We were fortunate to have u/spacemouse21 u/anonymousPuncake1 , u/bigsucka and u/different-tie-1085 join us as mods, thank you so much for joining us! This has been a crazy year and we apologize for not beomg able to sticky and keep up with the JOTM winners but I have gone back and updated the would be winners with user flair and even had a couple become repeat winners (check the ammount of crowns) and due to that we will be handling this years JOTY differently and going with the MOST UPVOTED (naturally was never stickied) joke not just this year but ALL TIME! By u/og-kushi who follows 2023 years JOTY winner (no surprise honestly) u/fizzmore ! In 2025 both will be inducted in to the r/cleandadjokes HALL OF FAME! It will also be stickied all of 2025! When the hall of fame is introduced we will be posting the requirements to join (yes others are part of the inaugural class) Once again, thank you all for an incredible 2024 and we look forward to continued growth, perhaps even share the name of our sub in RL, u/Futch1 himself just had a conversation with someone in RL who told him they read a joke from r/cleandadjokes every day to start their meeting. Help us continue to grow and for being here!