There have been a lot of milestones on the blog here recently, including my 5 year birthday and my 500th post.  Well, now we can add another milestone, my 500th comment, courtesy of my brother! The comment was actually a pingback from a post on his blog (which has supposedly resumed operation)

“LeVar was on The Soup not “Talk Soup”!(great TV show btw) which caused Big Brother to post about it. He says pretty much I could want to say here.  https://erith1.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/levar-burton/”

Sara had the idea to see who had the most comments overall, but that was trickier than I expected.  Back in the LiveJournal days, if you didn’t have an account you had to post anonymously and then (hopefully) leave your name in the post (although many people forgot). Also, it is amazing how many different ways people will write their name, for example you might have Jackie, Jackie Parker, InteractiveReader, Interactive Reader, etc. So I’m sure I missed counting some of the comments. And, of course, some of you have been with me longer than others. 

So, without further ado, the rankings are as follows:

1. Myself – 87 comments
2. Jackie – 85 comments (but I bet she has more than 87 because I’m pretty sure I missed counting some)
3. Jen – 37 comments
4. Meg – 32 comments
5. Anna – 31 comments

Notice that most of the top commenters have blogs or webpages to link to, except Anna…time for someone to get a blog…

If you’re wondering where Sara came in, it was very near the bottom at 6.  That was actually more than she thought she had. I guess she can comment to me more directly if she feels the need.

So anyway, thanks everybody for your attention over the years, but thanks especially to the 500 times you bothered to actually comment! Even after all this time I still get excited when I see I have a new comment and I rush to read it first thing in the morning.

Now, if only there was a way to get the total word count that I’ve published so far…