News From The Top Commentators

Nice. Looks like I have to work on getting myself to the Top 10 ;)

Always nice to see you giving back to the community - it also gives other bloggers (like me) ideas of what we can do with our own community.

chaunceysmith should be banned, he's gaming your comment system.

Great idea to reward the commentators john. I may have to try it out sometime on my own site.

Thanks John. I just learned about 10 great blogs that I will visit more frequently.

Sadly, I don't think I'm quite witty enough to come up with 50+ comments a month to get on your list. But you add a lot of value with your posts, so I wanted to drop by and say thanks.

I added this same plugin to my site and it made a massive difference in participation - plus about 5 of my readers went and installed it themselves.

It's the least we can do to say thanks to the people who make our blogs great communities. :)

I need to work on my commenting. And then I'm going to Jeff's blog to raid his Top Commentor's list. :)

The linkback love is always appreciated John. This is also extra incentive for top commentators to write compelling content. 'Cause you never know when John Chow will drop by and need good content to send a pile of visitors.

Thanks a lot for linking to an article of mine John, appreciated! :D I will definately keep commenting and reading your blog!

Great idea to link to your Top Commentators.

I especially liked Kalle's 7 Ways to Increase Commenting article.

Brilliant!

Great way to encourage people to comment, but I'm sure it will result in many comments that bring absolutely nothing to the discussion, making actually reading them unattractive.

Wow, two links to my blog in one week, thanks for that John!

Though as I said in my post about the comment-incentives, aren't you even worried about getting more worthless comments now? especially during the first week of March?

Cheers,
Allen.H

Following your advice, I am trialling a latest comments list in the sidebar of my web tech section. So far I am the top commentator on my blog, so do I give myself a prize and a backlink?

Nice links, apart from sharing the link love they also offer useful information. Good job John.

When I leave John's blog I typically choose a link in the top commentators section. Consider that an added perk!

lame contest announcements on someone elses blog

great idea to add a little snip of your top commentors. I am all about giving back to bloggers and especially bloggers who support and give to our site

Nice list John, thanks. You might be a bit right indeed, the free backlinks from your website are very nice and very good as promotional tool. However, your blog is still the main reason I'm here, I wouldn't manage to keep commenting a non-interesting blog ;)

great idea!

arh I had a nice long post and it disappeared.. will try and write it some other time

Long time reader, First time Poster. I like what you are doing. Providing something back to your loyal reader. I like I like.

I was gonna post something earlier on Vday when you posted pics of the Cannery. I had a feeling you were gonna go there when you said you were gonna take your misses somewhere nice. I had a look when I was there but didn't see ya. I agree the service was fast. I go several times a year cause I live close by and that was the worst time/service I ever received there.

Good luck

I've been reading your blog since Nov 06 and decided today it's about time to get some credit for reading and try out for your Top Commentators post. Hello from Jason.

Thank you John !! I appreciate this !! I don't care that you spelled my name wrong :D

You are a kind man !

I understand what a nofollow link is, but does Google even consider them to your knowledge when calculating page rank? I sometimes put nofollow in my links, but I have since started using "open in new window". There's nothing more annoying then having to cut n paste when you can do it in a click.

So get real links... got it.

Hmm... becoming a comment whore will be difficult for me, as I have more of a habit of lurking rather than commenting.

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Darn you John, for giving such perks to top commentators! *shakes fist* :-P
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Nice Information

Do I understand this correctly? Commentators are reset every month??? Does this mean that on March 1st everyone starts with 0 comments? That would be great for someone like me who would love to be a top commentator cause I know that I will never catch up to these other guys with 100 comments!

Well, I can say that I got a bit excited when I saw that John Chow was one of my recent visitors...quite an honour to have your site checked out by such a dot com mogul

Thanks for the link John. This is very much in tune with "under promise, over deliver." Interestingly, it seems that Ryan and I are the only ones with blogs that aren't as dedicated toward blogging, monetizing, and other dot com-like things. That does serve as an indication as to what kind of audience this blog draws, though.

May I know which plugin you use so that people can see commentors' thumbnail in their comments?

Thank you.

Beautiful senitments....John. You're a true dot com mogul

Are the comments reset at the end of every month? I want a box of pens, so I'm gonna save all my comments for next month! ;)