The last look I took at the list of top contributors revealed only two of Moby's finest reaching a new personal milestone. But naturally, the Moby community couldn't bear this kind of drought and struck back with a vengeance. With no less than six people completing their first or another 10,000 points since the last update, I see myself forced to split up this update into two posts - this here being the first.

And while I always used to scan the top contributor's list from top to bottom, today I will make an exception to the rule as there's a special new member of the 10K points club to celebrate: MobyGames co-founder and sole coding slave Brian Hirt stuck his head out of the programmer's dungeon and finally broke through the five digit barrier!

At first glance, Brian's contribution profile looks as if he just tested every new contribution area released over the years, more or less. But as this wouldn't be enough for scoring 10,000 points, a closer look reveals that he added 7,351 alternate company names as of today, making him the unreachable #1 contributor in this field, a feat obviously achieved in the starting days of MobyGames. Two other items in Brian's contribution list catch the eye of the regular MobyUser, too: He scored 106 points for contributing genres - another pole position that he will hold for eternity - and he got exactly one point for a hardware image - clicking through his profile recommended for a sneak peak at this will-hopefully-soon-be new feature.

Furthermore I would like to take this opportunity to thank Brian for all the thought and endless hours he put into this project. The site is far from being without problems and there has been much gnashing of teeth lately, but I think we should never forget what a might job it is to cram the world-wide history of video games into a database design, and to put a usable website interface over it for convenient read/write access for both contributors and approvers. And what a surprisingly successful attempt in doing all this MobyGames has become!

Congratulations and thanks, Brian. :o)

So let's keep this thread free of gnashed teeth, let's hold on for a moment instead and remember why we came here and why we're still here, after all.

Hmmmm, "congratz" again for returning into the 10.000 pts-club. Brian was part of it since and for a long time, before he "decided" to leave it (probably because of corrections, replaced release infos andsoon) not long ago.

So: Welcome Back, Brian! :)

Oh, really? This must have been before I regularly checked the top lists, or didn't notice.

I remember he stood at least at 10.018 long ago, possibly years ago. Not so important, but not that he's getting angry ;) "Damn, i made this several years ago!..." - eventually it appears on a Sciere-Thread in early 09, who made a "2008 overall honoration thread", something i missed for 2009... i remember he included a hardcopy-shot there of the Top50, possible that Brian was at that time - for sure part of the Top50 and with 10.000+ pts.

Don't forget Part 2 with the other 10.000+ contributors... not to forget TentaclePorn-Oleg mastered a few days ago as 2nd the 90.000 !! (not so important: Joyvalley reached a few days ago as 3rd the 80.000)... ;)=

Here.

Ooops, but he deserves double credit, doesn't he? :o)

Almost 3 years without honoration in this section of Moby. So: Definitely, yes :)

Congratulations Brian )

Congrats! good to see one of the founders managing to contribute and run the site.

Congrats! =D

Aw, crap -- that means I had better step up AT SOME POINT in my life. Only 1200 to go!