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Comment Stats

TDavid over at Make You Go Hmm has been playing around with mySQL to get stats on his users comments. I also enjoy looking at pretty numbers (always being careful to remember they mean absolutely nothing), so I did some digging in my own comments database.

So here we go:
First up, total posts by year:

The blue line is all comments. The red line is all comments minus the ones from the WordPress plugin related pages, which are typically help related. While this year isn’t over yet, I highly doubt I’ll get to 2007 or even 2006 levels of comments.

Top ten commenters of all time are

  1. Andrew Ferguson (595)
  2. quinn (108)
  3. staples.jeff (107)
  4. Audrey (69)
  5. Matt Matteson (43)
  6. Peter (42)
  7. CrazyBarbour (40)
  8. laura (34)
  9. Amelie (23)
  10. Ryan “Artoo” Goodwin (19)

I was going to post the leader board for each individual year, however people changed their emails and the way they entered their names in the comment fields and I really don’t want to fix all of them to get accurate results.

I’m kind of stumped as to why 2006 was such a good year for commenting. Interestingly enough, this year has seen more comments per a post, which I think is good. Thoughts?

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Cost of Gas

We’re having an interesting discussion about about gas/oil, oil companies, and the price/net profits of the aforementioned interests over at Audrey’s blog.

Start with $4/gallon and Pointing Fingers and then continue reading with Price Breakdown of Gas.

The conversation seems to be pretty fact based so far and hasn’t broken down to a he-said/she-said argument (or flame war, for that matter), yet.

Note: I’ve disabled comments on this post to make sure I don’t steal the conversation. If you have a comment, leave it on Audrey’s blog.

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