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Eddie - Date published:
1:13 pm, December 19th, 2012 - 41 comments
Categories: The Standard -
Tags: vanity posts
We’re on track to reach half a million comments before the week is out (late Thursday, early Friday by the looks). Who will be number 500,000?
As always, its nice to mark these milestones because it’s a reminder of what a big and vibrant community this is. Those half a million comments have sure made writing here a lot more fun than it would have been if no-one wrote back. Cheers.
And congrats to the newer generation of authors for injecting a new energy and direction into the pieces.
For the data geeks – we passed 400,000 on April 18 and averaged 400 a day since. 300,000 on July 24 2011, 200,000 on September 25 2010, and 100,000 on July 2 2009. The first comment was on August 17 2007 – we’ve averaged 255 comments a day over The Standard‘s life.
The trend will see us hit 1 million August 3 2015….
…so … mark that date I guess.
lprent: And the winner was xtasy…
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Hi, Thanks for the opportunity to be a part of the community at The Standard and submit comments across most of 2012; yet, I’m experiencing a little of both relative and absolute poverty at times now so reading and writing to TS has been deferred due to the neccessities of Survival.
God Bless You All This Christmas; particularly lprent, Draco, CV, Uturn, Flockie and the many others; U know who you are.
Love
The Rogue
🙂
Nominations for comment awards are now open (no actual award included).
Categories:
• Best
• Worst
• Funniest
• Most bizarre
• Add your own…
I note that the first ever comment was made by trythisone on 17/8/2007 at 12:32pm reading:
A fair question, and the answer is still a work in progress. We’ll get back to you.
Cheers r0b ,
I nominate DunnoKeyo for
Least read comment
Most non sensical comments
Grace in accepting his new Pseudonym without comment
🙂
There should also be a special award for bravest commentator. Colonial Viper would be a very valid nominee for this award.
Brave? As far as I understand it, he made prolonged annonymous attacks on the party he was a member of, got found out and then ran for the hills like a coward.
@King Kong…yeah but your understanding never really goes that far, as you appear determined to prove by many comments you make.
I guess you are just bitter, having hoped to be nominated for bravery yourself, which, I do believe has some foundation. How about “most loved to be hated” poster instead? I believe there would be stiff competition for that place though…
“Most perverse” ?….
I nominate Fran O’Sullivan and the lady representing POAL… they got mauled but at least they showed up
And how about the most indiscriminate use of smiley faces?
🙂
Surely that’s just incitement to Spud?
Darn, and I accidentally turned off the smileys last night whilst looking at new smileys…
Not aimed at spud at all… 🙂
Now where is this confounded option…
Fixed.
the outbreak of rolleyes was pretty funny. But then I please easily 🙂
…and the most amusing/creative name…
For which I nominate “The Gormless Fool formerly known as Oleolebiscuitbarrell” Whose previous name was amusing enough!…
Why, thank you.
Ah! The Gormless Fool formerly known as Oleolebiscuitbarell!
🙂
comment link says > 565275 already ??!!
and this one is 565276 .. so who’s the half millionaire?
The deleted comments – mostly hand killed spam.
“(late Thursday, early Friday by the looks)”
Better get in quick, the world ends on Friday morning.
Perhaps the 500,000th comment is the trigger – when TS server finally explodes under the strain, and accidentally wipes out the world? That would be ironic. On account of us being here to save the world ‘n stuff.
Unless the doomers are wrong and the new agers are right, and the world doesn’t end but the collective consciousness of humanity is transformed into goodness and light.
In which case, the 500,000th post will be crucial to how the new consciousness forms (start as you mean to go on). I hope it’s QoT 😈 Or Karol 🙂 If it’s Matthew Hooten or King Kong, we’ll all be wishing the world had really ended.
I’d almost suspect lprent of creating some trapdoor which means when we hit 499,999 all comments briefly go into auto-moderation so he can pick the funniest one …
Nope. But it was highly embarrassing when we hit one comment mark and it turned out to be a comment by me saying that we were about to hit it ;(
lolz
The internet KNOWS, lprent. It chooses its milestones wisely, and with a massive bias towards meta.
The world doesn’t end and I don’t think credible astronomical calendars have ever suggested that. That is just what non-thinking people claim, without actually bothering to read what it is that is being said. What the calendars note is simply a physical reality….
Just as the sun has a cyclical movement and the moon and earth have cyclical movements, so too do pretty much all planets and stars out there. This calendar simply marks a point in time when some of these cycles conicide in a certain way. That is all.
To suggest that the world is going to end is like saying Ken Ring’s statements that the moon has a gravitational effect on the planet are nonsense.
Just ask galileo and newton.
In person ?
…… and the moon does have a gravitational effect on the planet…..
..aw! Come on vto! I believe a bit of humour would have been in keeping with CW & r0b’s comments…I mean we all know that the world isn’t going to end on Friday morning; I believe its Friday evening no?
17.31 and 24 seconds Eastern Standard Time…. my cat told me so.
heh! (Clever cat!)
Oh yes I know.
Might as well have the 500,000th comment on something like the world ending …….. But you know, the world as we know it may end. We just may not notice it. It may be quite obvious from some point in the future that the earth moved from one previous state into another at exactly this point in time, 5.34pm Friday.
Vto, I was being completely and entirely facetious with my comment about the world ending on Friday 🙂
Well done TS, nearly 500,000 is alot of views and opinions and i also thank TS for having the
opportunity to put my two bob’s worth in and read other comments.
Although faces and people are not known by most who leave comments or views,there is a
connection here on TS,that could explain why TS is a popular site.
Our polies, should not dismiss and critisize bloggers or commenters too often, an attitude
adjustment in 2013 is needed.
I would like to take the opportunity to wish everyone a merry christmas and a happy new year 🙂
Thanks to you all for your hard work and dedication to the free exchange of ideas and opinions.
A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
I have just donated $50. (No comment actually supplied).
Sweepstake for the Millionth comment ? Say $1 an entry to go to Oh I dunno a fav Charity like TS or Oncology.
Are we there yet?
How about now?
And the winner was xtasy…
http://thestandard.org.nz/parata-wont-quit-key-wont-sack-her/comment-page-1/#comment-565508
Coming up to xmas the number of comments drops.
Congratulations xtasy!
I can’t believe it: Accidents happen, I suppose!?
Well, let’s move on to the 1 million then, that is my approach to challenges!
Thanks anyway. It was not much “effort”, just lucky timing.
Seems like a good comment to be the 500 000th; covers a lot of ground
Congrats xtasy! 🙂
WOOP WOOP WOOP