Congratulations and thank you to TnT and to all of those people whose time and effort have made it into what it is.  IMO this continues to be a worthwhile project and one of my favorite places on the internet.  That a certain amount of tension exists between this site and Plastic is somewhat understandable given the genesis of TnT and the fact that some folks simply can not experience 2 separate but similar things without comparing them/framing them in terms of competition.  This isn't some Highlander movie and there can be more than one (really it's OK).

From what has transpired since Plastic's 'resurrection' I think TnT was something the shared community desperately needed, a haven from crazed A.I. behavior. IMO Plastic only dies a little more each time some A.I. shit fest and sock puppet mod war erupts - unfortunately that doesn't translate directly into thousands of new participants at TnT.  The posting community may not be as large as Plastic in it's golden age but it is consistent and more or less civil (or at least unafraid to sometimes be complete assholes under their very own anonymous user name) and that leads to the possibility of community through consistency of interaction.  

"...when theft and high crime becomes obscenely obvious to even the blindest beer sucking idiot, it is always the Republicans who are in office." -- Joe Bageant

I say bravo! Bravo that we've all been here for so long! Bravo that we've had so much intelligent discussion! Bravo that minds and opinions have been changed. Most importantly, Bravo that two years later we're still apparently in that honeymoon period with little to no snark and lots of respect for the views of others.

I think if we can just double the number of active users this place will really take off.

...but I'm very pleased with where we are at this point.  I'd like to see more people post comments and write stories, but all things considered I think we're doing very well.  There were a lot of times during the first year when I really didn't think we'd ever make it this long, so while it may be faint praise I really do think we've done very well just to persist.  The longer we last the more time word of mouth has to bring us more people and the more people we get the more interesting the site gets.