Hello Team,

First of all, Thanks again for all of your hard work and tireless dedication to providing us with such a wonderful Forum and the opportunity Each Week to honor another Friend for their contributions to our Great Little Community.  You assumed a difficult task and not only did you hit the ground running, you do a Top-Notch Job each week providing a quality Forum of which to be proud.

I appreciate the honor of being selected as one of the Voters of the Week, although I really can't imagine not voting each week.  Congratulations Joyce, on being selected as the other Voter of the Week.  Stop and think how much that kind of exposure would cost us if we were paying by the Hit!  Thanks again my Friends.

As you can probably tell by how many times I mention Week exactly how I voted.  There are many reasons for choosing to remain Weekly, however many of my Friends have already listed most of them, and I agree.

As far as a drop in participation, I'm sure that some of it can be attributed to Server problems, Notification problems, or whatever has been happening here at ALP over the past month or so.  As Judy mentioned, it's Summer and Vacation, so participation always drops off.  Also, the folks down on the Gulf have been occupied with Gustav for the past few weeks, and now bless their hearts, they may be welcoming Ike before too much longer.  While most of you aren't addicts about it like I am, it's also Election time.  In fact, had it not been for Hanna cutting through NC this morning, I wouldn't be here now, but instead would have been in Raleigh, NC, for a Rally.  Long story short, it will get better.  This is without question, the Friendliest and in my opinion, the Best Community on the Web.  We are not about to let a Terrific Forum such as the POTW fall by the wayside without a fight.

Have A Blessed & Beautiful Weekend,

Phil

Hi Phil,

Thanks for your participation in this thread and sharing your thoughts with us.

It's interesting that some of our friends that voted for the monthly poll had second thoughts and sent me PMs asking that I disregard their initial vote and they want the POTW to remain as is.

We'll have to wait and see what the final result will be but regardless the final decision will be based on the spirit of the many that posted here and it's obvious what the majority want.

Sorry you missed your "rally in Raleigh" and if I were in the States now I'd be very active too. BUT, have no fear you'll have many rallies to go to until the elections. :)

Shalom,

Peter

Hey Steven,

You can be as loquacious as you wish here. That's what we're interested in finding out in addition to the physical vote what our friends think about the poll, POTW and what direction it should take in the future.

As I said in a few previous posts the vote on its own will not be the deciding factor but the spirit of the posts are as important if not more important.

We appreciate your support and the links yo the 2 POTWs in your forum. Kudos on the 7700 (and running)views very impressive!!! :)

You are not the first to raise the issue of POTW2 or something in that order. There are problems with that but we'll consider that option too. You will be surprised that there are many Adlanders that are active in the community (not only ad posters) that many of us are not aware of. As there are some very good forums that we are not all members of. We are interested in attracting them to the POTW and other worthy forums in order to get to know them better.

In any case I appreciate your sharing with us and the truth is I expected no less from you. You are definitely one of our great friends.

Shalom,

Peter