Took my around a year. I just barely got in under the wire for the 300,000 post patch Dan had made up. I made it to the cutoff for the silver patch, but not for the gold (the gold was for JYD's) I THINK you got the silver patch if you had at least 300 posts. Oh and the patch reads 2006-2009 along the bottom. I joined in Oct of 2008.