100,000th comment

Written By: - Date published: 5:20 pm, July 2nd, 2009 - 31 comments
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  • Our first comment was on our second day, August 17th 2007 “Where will it lead? ;)” by trythisone on our third post… who never showed up again.
  • Number 100 was on September 15th, 31 days in, John laughing at Jacqui Dean for wanting to ban dihydrogen monoxide – also known as water.
  • Our thousandth came after 62 days on Oct 16th, Sam Dixon calling the Nats scum.
  • The ten thousandth was Lynn banging on about some computer mumbo jumbo on Jan 23rd 2008, 162nd day.

Now, 688 days in, we’ve hit 100,000… and the winner is (drum-roll)….

felix in typical hectoring form annoying Tim Ellis

Tim,

Care to back up the $70k claim?

And while you’re at it, the $1k claim as well? (I know that one was a wild stab in the dark but I also know you’re miles off btw.)

Also, when does ‘academia’ cross the line into ‘pseudo-academia’?

So thank you all (except the ones we had to ban). Whether left or right, witty or angry, argumentative or conciliatory, lucid or perplexing, verbose or the soul of brevity, one-offs or regulars, The Standard wouldn’t be The Standard without all of you.

Cheers.
The Standardistas

[PS Marty reckons if the growth pattern holds we’ll reach 1,000,000 a few months before the 2014 election -nearly two years for the first 100K, just five for the next 900K. It’s enough to give Lynn kittens. Let’s try to beat it :)]

[lprent: bloody hell, I can’t bear to think on it. ]

31 comments on “100,000th comment ”

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  1. felix 1
    2 July 2009 at 5:46 pm

    WOOOOHOOOO!!!!!!!!11!

  2. jarbury 2
    2 July 2009 at 5:49 pm

    Congrats felix

  3. Ianmac 3
    2 July 2009 at 5:49 pm

    Post number 1,000,002! Ha!

  4. jarbury 4
    2 July 2009 at 5:53 pm

    Too many zeros Ianmac 😉

  5. Tim Ellis 5
    2 July 2009 at 6:06 pm

    If there’s a prize, then in all fairness felix should split it with me, since he wouldn’t have commented unless it had been on something I had written.

    [lprent: 😈 ]

  6. r0b 6
    2 July 2009 at 6:06 pm

    Damn! I was so close! I’ll get you next time Felix!!!

  7. Marty G 7
    2 July 2009 at 6:21 pm

    There have been as many comments (682) in the last 48 hours as in the first two months. Exponential growth.. it’s fun!

  8. IrishBill 8
    2 July 2009 at 6:33 pm

    I think the comment about banned commenters is unfair. Just to even it up I’d like to thank some of the commenters I’ve had the privilege to ban particularly dad, ‘sod and Felix. There’s a special place in my heart for the crazy ones (but not the dull ones).

  9. Marty G 9
    2 July 2009 at 6:35 pm

    The 100,000 doesn’t count the ones we had to delete or went into the spam… so 100,000 of pure gold… and there have already been another 29 31. You crazy cats.

    captcha: Foraker’s drooping… that’s a very unkind insinuation about Ohio’s 37th governor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_B._Foraker

  10. the sprout 10
    2 July 2009 at 6:41 pm

    felix is a great commenter.

  11. serpico 11
    2 July 2009 at 10:06 pm

    this site is a sewer

    [comment 100,069]

  12. BLiP 12
    2 July 2009 at 10:45 pm

    The prize couldn’t have gone to a nicer poster – what is the prize, btw?

  13. Matthew Pilott 13
    2 July 2009 at 11:14 pm

    You’re all awesome.

  14. Ghost of Sam 14
    3 July 2009 at 12:50 am

    Ah, yes, that sounds familiar.

    Now, back to lurking.

    • r0b 14.1
      3 July 2009 at 1:00 am

      This place is turning into a regular haunted house.

      Hey ghosts, why not try the Buddhist thing, seek perfection once more in another turn of the wheel…

      • BLiP 14.1.1
        3 July 2009 at 11:30 am

        I don’t have a problem with reincarnation from the point of view that we might be spiritual beings having human experiences and repeated earth lives allows us to develop – mind you, my wife reckons that if I’m correct then I’ll be the last one here!

  15. lprent 15
    3 July 2009 at 8:03 am

    …by trythisone on our third post who never showed up again.

    Actually that was someone testing if the comments worked for anonymous users as I remember it (not me)

    captcha: alighted election

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