Yesterday in Top Comments, we took a look at the most prolific commenters in the final quarter of 2009, and included a column listing the total comments for those commenters for all of 2009. The purpose of this diary is to focus on that final column—in particular, to list those Kossacks who wrote 10,000 or more comments in the year just completed.
A tip of the hat to plf515 who started this series in 2007. This is the end of my second full year at the helm, and it's a time-consuming process. The results are available over the jump, along with our usual blend of excellent comments from the past 24 hours as nominated by you, and with lists of those comments that garnered the most recs.
I've included in this year's table all the users I could find who attained 10,000 or more comments in 2009. The data was gathered this afternoon, and the numbers may differ slightly from the 2009 totals in yesterday's diary. Due the nature of the Daily Kos Search function, indices for comments made in the past week have overlap in them, causing Search to return some duplicate entries. The duplications today are, in some cases, slightly different from those yesterday, as the indices have been regenerated to include any comments that might have been added to diaries in the days following initial publication. These duplicates are counted in the totals, but eliminated in the search display. If you've ever searched and asked for 40 entries displayed per page, but only received 36, it's because there were four duplicate index entries that had to be eliminated from the 40 returned. There isn't an automated way to count these duplicates and deduct them from the totals, so they're included.
The yearly totals are based on comments made to diaries published in 2009; the way Search is set up it's easy to get complete comments to all 2009 diaries, while prohibitively impractical to get all comments made in 2009. There is minor divergence between methods, so we've gone with the one that makes the gathering of statistics feasible.
Similarly, there is an extra "0th comment" assigned by search to the creator of a diary and normally counted in the total returned, even though it isn't a real comment. These artificial comments have been eliminated from this diary's 2009 totals by using a "not cid=0" parameter in the search string.
The table columns are user name, user ID, and 2009 comments (the total for the entire year).
User 2009
Name ID Comments
Yasuragi 168,052 32,594
slinkerwink 4,335 21,570
Gooserock 7,281 20,489
Texas Blue Dot 71,251 17,883
Colorado is the Shiznit
177,536 17,345
gchaucer2 104,028 17,132
Hedwig 82,623 16,118
shpilk 15,850 15,967
blue aardvark 207,733 15,959
dvogel001 21,780 15,754
Floja Roja 60,572 14,926
NCrissieB 157,364 14,145
droogie6655321 76,877 14,124
MinistryOfTruth 202,328 14,076
Seneca Doane 99,900 14,027
Its the Supreme Court Stupid
158,011 13,792
plf515 75,605 13,547
Muzikal203 153,859 13,277
skywaker9 4,949 12,762
DemocraticLuntz 78,234 12,726
politik 161,487 12,543
Arken 54,791 12,236
CityLightsLover 153,254 12,216
Meteor Blades 6 12,064
Onomastic 175,854 11,713
Inland 56,531 11,566
G2geek 44,695 11,156
JML9999 105,891 11,083
Phil S 33 57,580 10,978
dakinishir 198,241 10,217
JesseCW 148,762 10,210
burrow owl 6,186 10,091
If you know of anyone who has been omitted, please be sure to let me know in the diary comments below. I'm hoping that we've caught everyone this time—we haven't identified any missing persons from yesterday's lists—but if we find a missing soul I'll update the diary with the new data.
As I mentioned last night, I'll be happy to check stats for anyone who asks in the comments. But if you want to check yourself, you'll have to figure out how on your own. ct got tired of restarting the search server every time I ran one of these diaries and people invariably checked their own numbers, and I got tired of writing him to apologize and let him know the server was down again.
Special bonus: here are the Ten Most Prolific Commenters of Daily Kos (Scoop only), including all comments from the first night on the Scoop platform (October 13, 2003) through the end of 2009. No comments from 2010 diaries are included, nor are the unsearchable first 16.5 months of Daily Kos comments, when dKos was using the Movable Type platform. This is short but sweet: rather than break the list at a minimum number of comments—a larger list with a minimum of 34,000 comments was published in [late September]—the list this time had a large gap after tenth place, which struck me as a Sign. Note: An asterisk means that the user has not posted on Daily Kos for at least three months. (In Armando's case, we're talking close to three years.)
The table columns are user name, user ID, and Scoop comments (the total since Daily Kos opened on Scoop in 2003) through 2009.
User Scoop
Name ID Comments
Gooserock 7,281 78,889
shpilk 15,850 65,947
Armando/Big Tent Democrat
1,638/104,162 64,335*
droogie6655321/Shelbyville Manhattan
76,877/174,714 56,490
Eternal Hope 17,872 52,691
gchaucer2 104,028 52,209
plf515 75,605 52,113
Elise 47,731 50,113
DemocraticLuntz 78,234 49,791
Meteor Blades 6 48,871
I'm always blown away by the sheer number of comments on this list. Gooserock's lead has extended since September, and the total could be at the magic hundred thousand by this time next year, or damn close. shpilk has passed Armando in both his guises. 2009's commenting winner Yasuragi would have needed nearly ten thousand more comments to make this top ten list.
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I was also blown away by the numbers emails from Kossacks today, which arrived in more prolific numbers tonight than last night, with comments streaming in all day, finally trailing off around dinnertime, well in advance of the 9:30pm Eastern Time deadline. Many thanks to all who took the time to submit their favorites. The address of our mailbox for top comments submissions remains:
TopComments AT gmail DOT com
(change " AT " to "@" and " DOT " to ".")
Anyone can send great comments to our address. Be sure to include the direct link to a comment—the URL—which is available from that comment's date/time; we need that to find your choice. Please always include your Daily Kos user name in the body of your message, so we can credit you properly. As I say every time, both link and username are important. (Again, one person forgot the link. Tsk.) If you send a writeup with the link, we are able to include that, too, though we reserve the right to edit if necessary; should you only provide the link, then you have to take whatever writeup we create...and we can be extremely creative. Today, I was rather creative in a few cases.
From JG in MD:
Diogenes2008 writes an intense and moving comment on learning patience the hard way.
mindoca sent:
I really appreciated this chuckle by MTmofo in Seneca Doane's diary What the hell are the DKos gangs trying to accomplish?
From Seneca Doane:
Maybe you had to be there, in my meta pox on both your houses diary, but keirdubois's reply to sardonyx's answer to his initial comment [Editor's note: start with the initial comment for best effect] had me rolling on various levels. Very erudite!
Also from my diary, this comment from 1BQ is simply excellent advice.
And finally, more good advice from MillieNeon.
Just Call Me Jay writes:
I am a flash mob fan, and this video posted by mieprowan is the most elaborate example I have seen. My affection for flash mobs, which is why I recommend this, is because they instruct us how to organize, and how to convey in an alienated and seemingly disconnected world, that there are invisible connections all around us. Becoming sensitive to that possibility, and creating that reality, I think, is the key to everything. Thanks!
From Land of Enchantment:
dengre added a cogent POV to Seneca Doane's meta entry this morning. (dengre's most recent diary in a related vein, on right-wing memes like binary-ism, deserved more attention than it got, too.) Hey, are we supposed to capitalize lower case usernames at the beginning of a sentence? I've always wondered about that. [Editor's note: I treat usernames as privileged—that is, I use whatever orthography the user has set. So names such as "dengre" and "sardonyx" are always lowercase, even starting a sentence (a "real-world" analogue would be the surname "ffoulkes"), while names such as "Land of Enchantment" and "RandomActsOfReason" are written with capital letters used exactly as the user did when setting up an account. In this case, I've edited LoE's submission so that "dengre" is in lowercase both times. Some other editor may choose differently (indeed, Chicago Manual of Style disagrees with me), but this is my preference for my own name, and I've consistently done it this way in Top Comments for over three years.]
lineatus sent us the following:
This is kind of an odd tc nomination, but I just can't narrow it down to a specific comment or two. My birdblog diary today ended up having some fantastic photos posted to the comments from a number of kossacks, some well-known for their photography (Haole in Hawaii, juliewolf) and many who are less familiar on the site at large but who regularly share their work in the birdblog (desertguy, tgypsy, matching mole, silence, Brahman Colorado...oh, jeez, I know I'm forgetting a bunch!) I'm really not trying to pimp the blog, it's just that there are some really great pix that I think people would really appreciate.
From pensivelady:
Dallasdoc had two comments I really liked today in a wonderful diary by clammyc, The "conservative independent" canard. The first comment was quite astute, and the other was in response to a question I asked about how to motivate elected officials to be more responsive; this was his excellent reply.
From sardonyx (your still-semi-prolific diarist):
Teacher Goober Peas has an excellent comment on education and education reform.
mataliandy points out that most of the really expensive health care decisions occur when time is the only consideration: in an emergency.
One of the squibs in today's Midday Open Thread talks about the purported bias of Rasmussen's polling, and when cocinero notes in comments that "Rasmussen is an outlier", Liberal Panzer fixes things.
In Spedwybabs's Soupin It Up W/Sped- Stews for the Troops Edition diary, imabluemerkin makes extraordinary curative claims for a soup recipe. Other recipes in the diary look quite tasty, if less...powerful.
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Finally, today's top mojo using my revision of the cskendrick-devised mojo-to-Excel process.
First, Top Mojo excluding search-identifiable tip jars, first diary comments, and some New Year's pooties:
1) We cannot just rebuild the old by TomP — 119
2) Please, if anyone would donate a rec for me by Nulwee — 109
3) I don't belong to a gang, by MTmofo — 107
4) Without going into detail by kestrel9000 — 93
5) it is something I have to monitor by teacherken — 75
6) My attitude is by Nulwee — 72
7) We Distort, You Absorb by JekyllnHyde — 72
8) Caught This Too, KingOneEye..... by Steve Singiser — 71
9) recced for you! by vcmvo2 — 70
10) We need an industrial policy by bruh1 — 70
11) And we can no longer afford by TomP — 70
12) Note to anyone who tuned in on time: by Seneca Doane — 67
13) That is a question I have asked many fundies. by KingOneEye — 66
14) The Masters of the Universe by JekyllnHyde — 66
15) how about by Frederick Clarkson — 61
16) Consider that it was a deliberate by dkmich — 61
17) he's said: by blueness — 60
18) You do realize people can refer back by chicago minx — 58
19) Nelson can't win by CatM — 57
20) Labor has minimal clout w/ the Dems by RFK Lives — 56
21) Thank you, Deo. One of my biggest concerns by blue jersey mom — 55
22) I have to disagree by Hard to Port — 53
23) let me respond as a social studies teacher by teacherken — 51
24) Operation Rescue uses terrorist tactics by maggiejean — 51
25) One big highlight for me, at year end: by lineatus — 51
26) I've never read a diary like this before by chicago minx — 50
27) Yeap- the "Bubble of American Supremacy" by bruh1 — 49
28) I don't want to hijack by bluesteel — 48
29) who would want that job? by GlowNZ — 48
30) Oh, I see, we're too stupid by citizenx — 48
31) 2009: An Awful Year by JekyllnHyde — 48
Top Mojo with No Exclusions:
1) Tip or not, I don't much care, jar by Seneca Doane — 386
2) Tip Jar by teacherken — 346
3) Tip Jar by mooremusings — 324
4) tips, propinas, consejos by Deoliver47 — 278
5) Tip Jar by TomP — 267
6) All Hail Fox News... by KingOneEye — 242
7) Tip Jar by lanae — 196
8) Tip Jar by blackwaterdog — 194
9) interestingly, by clammyc — 166
10) Tip Jar by Frederick Clarkson — 128
11) We cannot just rebuild the old by TomP — 119
12) Please, if anyone would donate a rec for me by Nulwee — 109
13) Got any highlights to share from last year? by lineatus — 107
14) Tip Jar by CalNM — 107
15) I don't belong to a gang, by MTmofo — 107
16) Without going into detail by kestrel9000 — 93
17) Gaaa by whoknu — 91
18) Tips and recs for Translator to be the next by Translator — 84
19) i just want the anti-pootie assholes by jlms qkw — 76
20) it is something I have to monitor by teacherken — 75
21) Tip Jar by Haole in Hawaii — 74
22) My attitude is by Nulwee — 72
23) We Distort, You Absorb by JekyllnHyde — 72
24) Tips for the Troops by Spedwybabs — 72
25) Caught This Too, KingOneEye..... by Steve Singiser — 71
26) recced for you! by vcmvo2 — 70
27) We need an industrial policy by bruh1 — 70
28) And we can no longer afford by TomP — 70
29) Note to anyone who tuned in on time: by Seneca Doane — 67
30) Tip Jar by Silly Rabbit — 67
31) Prolific Tip Jar by sardonyx — 67
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