Our Top Commentators For February

Erhm. Yea, definitely it will.

Well, I can tell you that I'm not here for the pens - I'm here because of the community and for the great info!

Same here .. But would not mind having the pens though ...

Well, if one is commenting for rewards, then he is in the wrong arena. This is one of the few blogs where the audience are not passive, but active.

They haven't. Since John set it to weekly, it added any comments that people have had since the start of the week. That's why there are lots of people with lots of comments.

Wanna bet, Ive managed to pump out 76 at time of writing, an hour or so before work, and 20 mins after work.

If you can type fast its easy peasy.

I wouldnt make a habbit of it, it's just an experiment for this week to see what that top spot feels like, if I can maintain the pace :!: :!: :!:

I may get bored by the morning :sad: that said, I always spend a bit of time reading comments anyway, so why not reply?

I usually leave a few replies here and there anyway...

That's actually a good idea, but as someone alluded to in another comment (I think it was Jane), some of us have developed relationships with other Chow whores. Sometimes a one-word reply is all we need to interact with one another. I guess that's one of the pitfalls of having this type of threaded comments setup...or pen giveaways. :razz:

Right, what if you wanted to ask a question and it was less then the minimum - you wouldn't get your answer.

Would not mind having a minimum word count to avoid people simply spamming. But on the other side for John it is a good place to build his community so dont see an incentive for him to put a minimum word count

Whats the point in a minimum word count, it will just annoy people, anyway, most of the time taken to comment is finding something to reply to, and waiting for the page to load, not actually writing.

Besides:

Ctrl C + Ctrl V :evil:

Well, I can tell you that I haven't visited their site...

Bring it on Steve!

The Clan of Evil can't be stopped! :twisted:

What are the entry requirements to the Evil Clann?? :twisted: :twisted: :lol:

I've also discovered that you can do a rolling 7 days reset. Comments fall off after 7 days. It just requires using a "7" in the time operator of the code. That's how I've got mine set up.

That would explain things...I was just about to ask how people got to 60+ posts on the first day!!!

I agree. Would he have to cut and paste all the figures on an Excel file and sift through them all? It is down to dollars and cents. We should find out soon, tomorrow probably.

I thought the same thing! That's how I would do it anyway.

My $1 guess was a lock until someone bid $2

I got wedged out on both sides... There are some very narrow gaps... But John's got a staff now. Make one of the plebes do it :twisted:

Just noted the weekly system, but I'm still going for the top spot every week on march.

Quite interesting to see someone come up with a diabolical plan to 'TAKE OVER THE SPAMMING, I mean commenting OF JOHNCHOW.COM!' Anyways...It's cool that it is reset every week. I wonder, though, how someone could acquire 25 comments in one day...That's...interesting.

This is comment 8 and I'm already exhausted. I think I'm going to need another post (and a cup of coffee) to keep the momentum going.

I want my comments to have real substance valued by other readers. I'm not down with "haha" or "i agree" comments.

Your comment skills are lacking!

You are not part of the Clan of Evil yet.

;)

Learn to touch type :grin:

Not at all. I'm on a Cable connection and every page loads pretty quickly. Are you caching images?

"Does anyone else find that with MyBlogLog and with a ton of comments like there are on this post that its takes a bit to load properly?"

Yeah pages are taking longer to load, apart from the actual download all those extra DB queries (for the comments) must have an impact too.

Depends on whose perspective you are talking about: John's, the readers, or the commenters.

Not really, most of the comments are on topic and there isn't too much spam - yet!

Perhaps, for one it's a great way to promote your blog and besides that, John posts quite a lot too, making it quite an easy task to do ;) Don't forget there are also tons of people who post on forums ten times every day without any kind of compensation, which isn't considered 'weird' most of the time.

Agreed. But, some forums do you allow you to have sigs, so that can help send some traffic your way. Instant gratification anyone?

That is true. It isn't unusual to find that in the more popular forums, since people are pretty much spending alot of time online.

Ridiculous? It's all a matter of what you have to say and how much you want to participate in the community. The community here is great and all of the top commentators except Nomar ;) have a lot to discuss and make for some interesting comments.

I agree. Who wants to face a dead wall, or audience that never communicate? You never know if they are just another zombie passing by.

Six or seven comments a day is nothing - if you are actually contributing to the conversation!

I reckon most people here like using forums anyway, which is, with threaded comments how this is kinda working....