Top Comments: The Most Prolific Daily Kos Commenters
Sun Jul 20, 2008 at 07:03:30 PM PDT
One thing the Top Comments series celebrates is good writing. Whether in-depth comments that rival the best diaries (and sometimes are expanded further and posted as such) or perfect one-liners, many Kossacks read gold and tell us about it daily in Top Comments.
We also celebrate what the Daily Kos community like as noted by their comment recommendations: those comments that get the most recs from readers. It's why we exclude tip jars from our first list of top mojo: recs there are generally for the diary, not necessarily for the actual comment.
This diary is also about comments, and about top comment writers: the people who are tops in the number of comments they have written. If you follow me over the flip, in addition to today's top comments, you'll find the Daily Kos users who have published the most comments on Daily Kos.
This diary is an offshoot of the established Prolific Commenters series, which I took over from plf515 at the beginning of this year. Previous installments have been for people who were most prolific in particular months, or for a year.
For today's diary, I looked at the people who have made the most comments since counting became feasible: since Markos set up the Scoop platform for Daily Kos starting October 13, 2003. In the 57 months and one week since (a bit under five years), people have written a lot of comments: over 20 million, in fact. (The 20,000,000th comment was noted in a diary by ct on June 13, 2008; it took under four years and eight months to get there.) There were over 16 months of comments before then, when Daily Kos ran under Movable Type, but there's no way to count them—no search functionality at all; comment threads are large single blocks of text. Additionally, comments from a month and a half in summer 2003 have been permanently lost.
There was a clear winner in the comments stakes: Armando was by far the most prolific commenter, even if you don't include his days as Big Tent Democrat. So much so that even though he's been gone in both incarnations for over 16 months, his position on the list looks solid well into 2009, if not all the way to 2010. Heh.
I've included the top 30 31 32; there was a nice break at that point, with over a thousand five hundred comments before the next commenter. There are just three columns: User Name, User ID, and comments under Scoop (Scoop Comments). I've added an asterisk after the number of comments if the user has been inactive for at least two months, and the total is therefore unlikely to change in future.
User Scoop
Name ID Comments
Armando/Big Tent Democrat
1,638/104,162 64,335*
gooserock 7,281 47,011
Eternal Hope 17,872 41,374
Elise 47,731 40,612
shpilk 15,850 39,962
Geekesque 59,129 38,612
Bob Johnson 191 37,486
cskendrick 20,146 34,438
DHinMI 899 32,853
buhdydharma 70,415 32,499
inclusiveheart 37,824 30,769
Meteor Blades 6 30,548
Salo 53,659 29,990*
NeuvoLiberal 54,442 29,601
plf515 75,605 29,515
ek hornbeck 49,281 28,619
noweasels 63,850 27,822
droogie6655321 76,877 27,690
Adam B 5,179 27,391
rserven 65,285 26,655*
Trix 2,255 26,427
terrypinder 52,583 26,108
teacherken 4,334 25,941
DemocraticLuntz 78,234 25,432
DemFromCT 426 25,340
ben masel 3,982 25,132
Inland 56,531 25,064
bumblebums 16,376 25,031
TomP 107,928 24,838
PhillyGal 14,420 24,565
kredwyn 30,305 24,431*
gchaucer2 104,028 24,288
If you know of anyone who has been omitted, please be sure to let me know in the diary comments below. You can check yourself by using the following URL and changing my username to yours (or the one you wish to check); if you don't change my username, you'll see how far I came from making the list (over 10,000 short):
• Scoop Comments
Finally, a brief reminder for those of you who haven't seen any previous Prolific Commenter diaries: because of the nature of Daily Kos search, indices for comments made in the past 21 days have overlap in them, causing Search to return some duplicate entries. These duplicates are counted in the totals, but eliminated in the entries it will display for you. If you've ever asked for 30 entries displayed per page, but only received 24, it's because there were six duplicates that had to be eliminated from the 30 returned.
This means that most totals (except for asterisked entries) are somewhat inflated...but we have no idea how much. It could be a few dozen or a few hundred, depending on how prolific that commenter has been in those 21 days.
Update, 7/21: added ben masel to the list. Did I miss anyone else?
Later: Yes. Adding inclusiveheart to the list in eleventh place.
Still later: corrected Eternal Hope's comment total—had transposed the two digits after the comma.
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With much of the Daily Kos community at Netroots Nation or finding their way back therefrom, commenting was slow over the past 24 hours: fifteen thousand comments only were published. Still, there were some gems to be found, so you can check out nominations from a reduced number of your fellow Kossacks who were around to read them in the past 24 hours.
If you saw any great comments that are not mentioned here, please link to them in your own comments below. The address of that mailbox:
TopComments AT gmail DOT com
(change " AT " to "@" and " DOT " to ".")
Anyone can submit deserving comments to our address—the direct link to a comment is available from that comment's date/time—as long as they arrive by 9:30pm Eastern Time. Please always include your Daily Kos user name in the body of your message, so we can credit you properly. Both link and username are important.
monkeybiz submitted the following nomination:
As a proud daughter of Pennsylvania, I have to nominate this entire exchange from highacidity's 'Pittsburgh is it--NN09.' It's a beeyoudeeful example of regional accents. Some folks might grex about the choice but I like it!
From an Unknown Nominator:
In Stranded Wind's diary 8,500 U.S. banks; many will die soon, SensibleShoes writes on the Wachovia Bank tower in Winston-Salem. You have to click on the link in the comment for the rest to be intelligible.
Lava20 sent:
Here's a great comment I would like to submit. [Editor's note: you should take a look at this comment by Muzikal203 first for context before clicking on indycam's comment.]
From your diarist sardonyx:
In last night's British PM Sides with Obama by DanK Is Back, dweb8231 asks a hopeful question. There were some good answers, too.
wondering if writes a very interesting comment entitled I've long collected old science books in arodb's diary from yesterday afternoon, PHYSICS, (C)1939.
Today's top mojo—those comments which have received the highest number of recommendations from Daily Kos users like you—as supplied by sardonyx, using his own revision of the amazing cskendrick's mojo-to-Excel magic.
First, Top Mojo excluding search-identifiable tip jars, first diary comments, and Cheers and Jeers:
1) What?! by grasstank — 139
2) as transparent as it is to us. by DawnG — 131
3) this is our president by aaraujo — 123
4) Well, the by KibbutzAmiad — 108
5) Statesman by mamalovesobama — 99
6) What's this strange feeling.... by elliott — 90
7) I really wish that David Gregory by christine20 — 90
8) Amen. n/t by My mom is my hero — 83
9) Great diary by Plutonium Page — 83
10) LOL by kml — 82
11) It worked ... by akdude6016 — 81
12) Thanks for sharing this for us shut-ins! by Dallasdoc — 77
13) I talked to a woman about her nephew in Iraq by Sun dog — 77
14) Its not whether they are good people by AaronInSanDiego — 76
15) Well by bink — 74
16) awesome diary by Artchess — 74
17) LOL. Absolutely it really is. Todd is sooooo.... by JedReport — 73
18) Up at Drudge by Kitty — 72
19) Hooray for casperr! by kath25 — 71
20) And This Is What The Right Can't Grasp by webranding — 71
21) all kidding aside, FWO suicide by Stranded Wind — 68
22) Not just black folks n/t by AaronInSanDiego — 68
23) Ok now I'm in tears... by teemel — 68
24) What kind of clarification is that?!?! by Jeff Y — 65
25) Here's a rough of the first two minutes: by Compound F — 65
26) If McCain goes to Czechoslovakia.... by dweb8231 — 64
27) It's already out there and any attempt to make by Molly M — 64
28) Petraeus needs to keep his mouth shut and by Molly M — 64
29) and a Muslim by KibbutzAmiad — 64
30) any doubt that Bush himself called up Maliki by mihan — 64
Top Mojo with No Exclusions:
1) Tips by MBNYC — 550
2) This is getting better by the minute. by VirginiaDem — 480
3) For them. by two roads — 465
4) Tips and a teaser by JedReport — 328
5) tips by Joe Rospars — 321
6) Tips for reading the NYT early nt by ItsJessMe — 318
7) Tips, etc. by Steven D — 309
8) tip jar by Stranded Wind — 299
9) Apologies by casperr — 247
10) Tips by DanK Is Back — 213
11) Tips and suggestions by Actuary4Change — 194
12) great seeing everyone in Austin by clammyc — 156
13) What?! by grasstank — 139
14) tips/recs for obama... by icebergslim — 132
15) as transparent as it is to us. by DawnG — 131
16) Aspirin sales way up. by vicki — 129
17) this is our president by aaraujo — 123
18) Tips, Comments, Etc by MLDB — 120
19) Tips for the Jet Plane.... by rapcetera — 111
20) Sickening. n/t. by roubs — 108
21) Well, the by KibbutzAmiad — 108
22) Hail to the Chief !! by Al Rodgers — 101
23) Statesman by mamalovesobama — 99
24) Bless them. Honor their sacrifice. by noweasels — 98
25) I just "snuck off" to the back room . . . by BenGoshi — 91
26) What's this strange feeling.... by elliott — 90
27) I really wish that David Gregory by christine20 — 90
28) Amen. n/t by My mom is my hero — 83
29) Great diary by Plutonium Page — 83
30) Tips for holding their feet to the fire. by karpaty lviv — 82
31) LOL by kml — 82
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