Comment King/Queen Award For The Week Ending On November 17, 2007
The past few days were a test run, the 15th through the 17th of November, 2007. I briefly mentioned the contest to see what kind of interest it would spark. Today, being the beginning of a new week, is the perfect day to tell you how it all works.
Blog authors who choose to participate need to do nothing more than count the number of comments per commenter he or she receives from Sunday through Saturday of each week and send that information to me, in any way that works (comments, contact page, email, etc.). I just need to know who the person is and where that person is from. If two or more have the same count, send them all.
What I'll do is mention each top commenter for each blog in my weekly post (like this one). I'll add the individual blog top commenters together and award a badge to the top commenter for all the blogs involved. There will be no tie breakers. If two or more have the same number, they all get a badge. The badge will be shown here and those selected can copy the badge to their own websites (if they have one).
Until all of the names are sent to me, I can't give out any awards. To make this as smooth as possible each week, I'll be editing the post with additions until the following week's announcement. This gives latecomers plenty of time to catch up. Without further ado:
Individual Blog Top Commenters:
Blue Beaver Bear — Hari of Hari's Corner — 3 Comments
Comedy Plus — It's a three-way tie with Ann of A Nice Place In The Sun, Captain Lifecruiser of Lifecruiser, and Lyn of Lynda's Loft — 7 Comments Each
Hari's Corner — Tim of Blue Beaver Beer — Comment Count Pending
The Pisstakers — Hari of Hari's Corner — 2 Comments
Untwisted Vortex — It's a tie between Hari of Hari's Corner and the team of Tim and Ernie at Blue Beaver Beer — Comment Count Pending.
Comment King/Queen:
The Comment King Award goes to Hari of Hari's Corner this time around. Feel free to post it on your blog in any manner you see fit.
Quick Update: I'll be checking each participating blog and doing manual counts myself. Not to second guess anyone, but to get the totals for individuals that don't make it as the top commenters for any individual blog. I realize this is going to be time consuming if a lot of blogs participate, but I think it's worth it.
Update 2007-11-20: Thank you, Sandy, for participating and thank you, Stine, for the mention. I have to say I'm surprised at the lack of participants so far.
Update 2007-11-26: There's no way that I can do manual counts for each blog. I'm going to have to trust each blog author to provide the top commenter(s) for the week. Just one blog took me well over an hour and that's with an excellent connection. Can you imagine how many hours it would take to check when more blogs start participating?
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How will the overall winner be decided? Will it be the best among the top individual blog commenters or the commenter who's posted comments most on all the blogs participating in the contest together (without being a top commenter in any single individual blog)?
Stop making my head hurt, Hari. I'll be checking all the blogs myself to make sure quality goes in hand with quantity.
Example: If Joe Schmoe comments once on 20 blogs, is he the top commenter for the week when someone else commented only 18 times on two blogs? Not necessarily, especially if Joe just said, "Hi there". That's not a real comment. I'm sure you know what I mean.
I sent you my top commenters, hari included, (is this man on a comment mission to show everyone up!!) Good luck with it, I have had a shed load of comments as a result of discussing this issue, hopefully a culture of commenting will take hold all over the place.
Someone pointed out that blogs by their nature are a bit one way traffic, ie the blogger talks at the audience, sabotaging the interactivity / comments without necessarily meaning to. If you compare blog chat to the more chatty social network scenario, there is a big difference in participation. See any way to bridge the gap?
Ed
I had a brain fart and forgot where I put your message. I did a search for "Ed" and finally found it. I think I have like 100K messages stored.
I read that comment. I think it was on your blog. Anyway, the initial post is one-way. Comments are not. I've seen huge conversations take place in comments that would make topical forums look like they're deserted.
Encouraging comments means asking questions that compel the reader to answer. Not necessarily questions per se, but anything that raises a question. It's up to us to get the ball rolling, but not anymore than the first poster in any forum.
Well, I think this is pretty good for the first go R.T. It should build as you go along. I'm saving my emails into folders by date to make it easier next week. Have a great day.
I'm a bit behind this week, so the next post is going to be a little late.
Hi RT
my top commenter this week was Diane http://dianealdred.com/ who left 4 fun comments. Thanks to her, I know a bit more about Belgium than I did before.
cheers
Ed
Thanks, Ed. I'm really behind the 8-ball today and will have to play catch-up with this as well as a whole slew of other things.
You should tell Diane to say hello to Dr. Evil for me.
Thanks for the badge RT. Does this automatically disqualify me from winning the award for the next round?
Yes, I suspected that manually counting blog comments is going to be a real stumbling block. We need more ideas.
What about, for instance, a "best commenter of the week?" which is more subjective, but takes into account the qualitative inputs of the commenter. I suspect most blog authors would be honest about this, but I can see some issues with that as well.
I don't care if you win it every week, Hari. It should inspire others to do the same.
Best commenter? That's too subjective. I'm trusting the blog authors to discount crap comments.