Resetting Top Commentator To Every 5 Days

or are you just never in the top 10 :lol:

you edit the Plugin file. There's a spot for it to exclude names.

Perfect...thanks :grin:

but that allows others to compete... and the people in the top list wont dominate unless the comment even more.... It's our evil John's idea, don't ya get it???

You have to work your way to the top, and who says that 5 days is too short? Never.

5 is a moderate balance...its neither 2 short nor 2 long...if its too short some commentors may not try to compete and giving 5 days helps the usual top commentors a chance to strive

Hmm yea, it gives a sort of a longer term pace to set on.

Its a rolling 5 days though, so in a sense it will reward consistency as opposed to hammering it at the start of the month....

It also differentiates the active commentators from the plain spammers alone.

Not really, if your not active you dont get on the list whether its monthly or weekly.

TBH, I think this is too much effort for a spammer to be bothered with. A spammer would rather hit mutliple sites once than pour effort into one site, and then find that they were banned for spam.

It calls for consistency, which you had mentioned.

I agree. No right-minded 'spammer' would put all their effort into a single site.

No right-minded ’spammer’ would put all their effort into a single site

Are you saying I have mental health issues :evil:

Well, you are pretty right on that aspect. I can almost see you there on the list as well!

As I said before, I think its (IMO) starting to slow page loads, which is not really in Johns interests.

Comparing load times to those a few months ago its a lot slower, or is it just me??

Not really spam comments, there are a few one liners, there is still some discussion tucked away in here somewhere :-)

I agree, with every bits of small talk, you still get some form of discussion out of it.

Like I've said, I always try and contribute to the conversation. If I can't, I move on!

I wouldnt be surprised, maybe he could become an author!!

A full-time author, for that matter. :idea:

:lol: I would be honored, but I would image that John's focus on the site is a little different then what I have!

But, I wouldn't say no!

Wheres your first, your own site I assume??

Definitely. What else is closer to your heart than your very own site?

If it keeps on with more people jumping into the fray, you may be certain for it to happen, eventually...

I doubt it, what benefit does John gain from this really, ultimately it will just slow his page loads down, which is already happening....

That page load time is slow cos of the mybloglog avatar. 100+ comments in a post means 100+ photos from that slow mybloglog server. That's why it is slow.

But the page load will not wait for the image will it, the page will load and images render concurrently.

What I mean is, load doesnt stop and wait for each avatar, it serves the html and images are rendered afterwards

Words occupy very little space. Actually, I would go along with Mr.Byte on this though.

He has a point, my point is that there are a lot of extra DB requests to buld the comments section, which has got to be an overhead also, though, that depends on the speed of Johns server, which I think is pretty good.

Not sure that would work, it would jump around too much, there has to be "some" consistency

I wouldn't bet on it: last week was slow for me, so I was able to be on the Internet a lot. That won't be the case this week - the rest of you spammers can have a chance!

Just don't get to comfortable at the top of the list, I'll be back!

:twisted:

lol.. And who's going to fork out the bets? Banker anyone? :) Nah.. we should just keep it to this way.

Why, are you scared? :razz:

Really though, let's not spam!

Not this week, as others have said, commenting so furiously is not sustainable. In terms of traffic Im not convinced the time invested is worth it, time is probably better spent on the blogs than comment spamming.

That said, I just had to know what the traffic increase would be :-)

Head over to my site, I have posed about the increase in traffic - and I still spend just as much time writing content as I did before!