Just ran into the graveyard subdungeon. At first glance my thought was "great, another no-explore subdungeon", and then I walked out with both the dwarven gauntlets and elven boots. A fully seventy GP worth of loot? Awesome stuff.
I also had a good chuckle about the forum-member shout-out. Then, after a moment of thinking it occurred to me: I've been active enough to have read 95% of the goings-on around the forums and I almost never see reference requests. I seem to recall a suggestion for "Lujo's flaming pants", and a couple people talking about the tombstones, but that's maybe 3 or 4 people tops. I tried doing a forum search, but I only found the discussions I already could remember off the top of my head. I'm not sure how many people have ever actually asked for a reference for themselves, but actually don't think it's a very large number at all.