Who will be the lucky winner?
This screenshot from my WordPress control panel shows we are closing in on comment number 1 million. We’ll reach that is a few days. This is a testament to our volunteer moderation team.
Whoever gets comment number one million, I’ll send off a small prize to; a WUWT mug labeled as being the millionth commenter.
If you have not commented on WUWT before, you might consider doing so.
I wonder if any other climate blogs have this many comments?
Just for those that might go looking to match up comment numbers, don’t bother, because due to spam comments (that every wordpress blog gets) that are automatically trashed by Akismet, the comment number and the total valid comments don’t match. The 995,650 comments represent valid comments that were not flagged as spam and were approved by one of our moderation team members.
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Unless I’m mistaken, RealClimate already eclipsed this mark … wait for it … for deleted comments. Congratulations, Anthony!
Harold – That was funny and needs a Josh cartoon!
Harold Ambler says:
March 11, 2013 at 12:14 pm
lol I was going to post the exact same thing when I read the title.
Harold Ambler says:
March 11, 2013 at 12:14 pm
Unless I’m mistaken, RealClimate already eclipsed this mark … wait for it … for deleted comments. Congratulations, Anthony!
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LOL. Made me laugh. Thanks, Harold. 🙂
Very good Anthony, you do great work here.
Bet if you graphed the number of comments over time you would get a Hockey Stick !!
+ + + + + Congrats.
I have 4,341 comments to post right now, I win. Warming my milk ready for my Cocoa in my new mug.
This video was the first thing I thought of, and why does he look like Mann? Don’t let a warmist cut in front of you!!!
I’m going postal to win.
…and what can be said in one post will be said in two
Sorry, punctuation error. Period at the end.
Don’t forget to vote for WUWT as ‘Best Science’ site.
WUWT is the real consensus!
I wish William M. Connolley could be the winner.
Can I comment?
(By the way, here is your Big Oil check. You need it to keep this blog running. [end sarcasm])
Putting something like this up as a notice, you might get the 4,440 comments in one day, Anthony.
A little bit of reality amidst all the alarmist bafflegab. Thanks
@ur momisugly Harold and Fred.
Quick and funny. Thanks.
And don’t forget, praise to the moderators.
And that does not include the (almost) quarter million spam comments? WOW!
[Reply: Spam has gone from a couple of posts a few years ago to where they now equal the number of legitimate comments. I hate spammers! Gr-r-r-r. — mod.]
[And all of those 250,000 spam messages had to be read as well, the trash messages deleted; and the valid ideas moved back into the queue and get accepted again. I hate spammers! Gr-r-r-r. — Another Mod who hates spam. 8<) ].
To me, the amazing thing is you moderated almost 1 million comments! There are 31.6 million seconds in a year, which indicates how much work moderating requires. Thanks for this fantastic resource. Oh, View from the Solent touched on that idea I see now.
Does the millionth poster win a prize?
[Reply: Read the article! — mod.]
Leif has a new paper out that shows the count is actually 994, 659, not 995,659. You’ll have to rethink your paradigm. Or something.
Quite an accomplishment to generate so much intense conversation, Anthony, especially considering that in the first year it was the rare post that generated more than a handful (1-3) comments. Things started taking off when you gradually moved from local Chico issues to the series “How not to measure temperatures – Part nn.” It’s equally impressive that the quality and usefulness of WUWT has continually improved. Most start-ups quickly fail for any of a dozen reasons. Six and a half years in this business is extraordinary. I’m pleased to say I checked in during the early months and haven’t left. So did Mosher and Evan Jones, but old TCO and bigcitylib are no longer around. Couldn’t take the heat, I guess (/sarc). Congratulations!
Can I now provide a constant stream of comments in the name of “Michael Mann, ClimateScientist-TM”??
It would be a hoot if he could win and receive the award. Maybe you could issue him a special award for provoking a good portion of the one million comments….
Did you know the coldest temperatures of the December 2010 Central England Temperature Data coincided with a period of zero sunspots!