New Feature: Top Commentators

By Jonathan Bailey • Jul 28th, 2007 • Category: Articles, Housekeeping

I’ve added a new feature to the side bar of this site, a Top Commentators list. The list, which counts all comments that a person has made over the past 90 days gives credit and a link to the top ten commentators during that time.

Currently, Jeremy Steele and Patrick are tied for first at ten a piece, however, it is almost certainly something that will fluctuate wildly.

I wanted to do something to give back to the people that help make the discussion on this site great and encourage others to jump in.

Please let me know what you think of the new feature. To do that, I highly recommend leaving a comment.

(Note: This feature wouldn’t have been practical without the reCAPTCHA plugin keeping the spam bots at bay, my thanks goes to them for their work!)

Jonathan Bailey is The Webmaster and author of Plagiarism Today, which he founded in 2005 as a way to help Webmasters going through content theft problems get accurate information and stay up to date on the rapidly-changing field. He is also a consultant to Webmasters and companies to help them devise practical content protection strategies and develop good copyright policies.
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9 Responses »

  1. According to Jeremy Steele on July 28th, 2007 at 5:57 pm:

    I win :P

  2. According to Patrick on July 29th, 2007 at 12:21 pm:

    Cool. :) A bit surprised, but it’s a great blog.

  3. According to Will on July 29th, 2007 at 6:26 pm:

    And the race is on! LOL! This is a good idea to generate comments rather than direct ‘contact” questions like I am in the habit of asking.

    I know I often feel my questions are dumb, but now that I have my own blog, I understand that putting questions in comments is often better. It really helps future users of a site find an answer. I have had a question of two on other sites where I have been almost embarrassed to ask. After I post a comment with the question, others chime in saying they have the same issue, sometimes even thanking me for being able to articulate the question.

    Go figure!!

  4. According to Will on July 29th, 2007 at 6:29 pm:

    And now here is a question in a comment… Are you using a plugin to get the notify box for followup comments?

    btw: I have a hard time reading the particular captcha form you are now using. Anyone else have to try a couple of times to get it right?

  5. According to Will on July 29th, 2007 at 7:01 pm:

    And now I have moved up the list! Probably the only place in the world I am ahead of Lorelle!

    OK, I’ll stop now. I have been working all afternoon on issues where Firefox displays things perfectly, but IE does not like my code. I’m getting punchy. (And VERY mad at IE!)

  6. According to JB on July 30th, 2007 at 11:40 am:

    Jeremy and Patrick,

    Glad you like the feature. It’s only a pity that I can’t play…

    Will,

    If you have a problem reading reCAPTCHA, just hit the refresh button, you should get another one you can read. I haven’t had any myself that have given me trouble but I am wary of that.

    Let me know if it keeps up, I’m glad that you like the feature!

  7. According to teeceo on August 21st, 2007 at 12:22 am:

    This is a great add to your site. did you buy a scipt that does the adding of the comments automatic?

  8. According to Suzanne on August 26th, 2007 at 12:59 am:

    ohh - I like it. Where can I get a top commenters widget?

  9. According to JB on August 26th, 2007 at 9:48 am:

    Teeceo & Suzanne,

    Here’s a link to the plugin I used: http://www.pfadvice.com/wordpress-plugins/show-top-commentators/

    It is completely free and works well. They’ve also made a widget but, Suzanne, both widget and plugin are for WordPress only that I know of. No word yet about a Blogger one.

    Hope that helps!

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