Yes, I have ended my ongoing comments contest. To be honest, my heart was no longer in it. I skipped a week, planning to combine them into one award, and I still didn't have any desire to do it again.
It has nothing to do with the number of comments. Hari of Hari's Corner and Sandee of Comedy Plus are almost daily visitors. Other people like Ray of Place of Stuff and Steve of Asian Ramblings visit a few times a week. There's a long list of people who visit once or twice per week, once every couple of weeks and even once a month. The list would be unmanageable if I tried to list to them all.
The point I'm trying to make is that the comments contest was not having any real effect on the number of people commenting. Most, if not all, of the visitors would have commented regardless of the contest. Anyway, the Comment Royalty page is retired but still accessible in the right sidebar (at least it's over there for now — I could move it later on).
I won't continue doing anything on a regular basis when it doesn't interest me. If it doesn't interest me, how could it interest any of my readers? Consider the comments contest yet another blog casualty.
