please empty your brain below

No proof required. Just doing my duty before work starts. Never miss the blog and comment when moved. Will now go back and comment on old stuff too. Life is too short. Although...

Second!

We're so predictable (sighs)

I expect the distibution would change if you did not post so regularly.

Ah, the distinction between less and fewer has finally been mastered. My work is done

Interesting - but not my experience. But then I have a totally different type of blog. I post once or maybe twice a week and, as far as I can tell, no one reads it regularly so I don't get any comments. But what does kick in after a while is the Google factor. People find items of interest by searching and then comment, mostly requesting more information.

i'm an hour ahead so i don't count.

What about spammy comments? I've been getting one particular persistent spammer who seems to concentrate on posts that are a few days old, perhaps in the hope that I won't notice and won't delete them immediately.

9.30 - i am part of the majority - oh to belong.

is there a difference when it comes to weekend postings? On a Monday morning, I (& most people?) read the posts from Sat and Sun, so any comment is going to be at least 24 hours late. Is that what account for the 14\\% of comments from Day 2 on (which is IMHO high were it only for non-weekend posts)?

dg writes: My analysis was only for posts posted on a weekday. But yes, weekend posts have a slightly longer lifespan.

As you correctly predicted, I read (and comment where necessary) in the mornings, when I get into work. If I'm too busy it maybe a few days before I get on, but rarely comment on older posts, as I guess everyone seems to have moved on.

As if we'd prove you wrong deliberately...

I think some people don't comment on older posts because they don't think the blogger will read them, not realising that all the comments are usually emailed to the blogger so they won't miss them.

DG you do well not to get any spam without any form of extra validation. Is that a feature of haloscan somehow?
I hate having to type the random code word in, to post in so many blogs. ( my own included, since I started getting spammed)

Are there going to be more stats on your comments DG? postings with most comments, distribution by day, number of commenters etc. You know you love that sort of stuff

2 Questions:

1. What about double and serial posters / commenters?

2. What is the Carbon Footprint on this? *Green stick

There is something wonderful about getting comments on a really old post, like from a month before or somesuch. It feels timeless.

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I don't comment on old posts because I assume nobody reads them. Can you easily see if I comment on a Summer 2003 post?

dg writes: I can tell immediately if somebody comments on a really old post (like "hackette" has just done), but I bet nobody else notices.

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Gah! I just missed squeezing into the first 5 hours! I do usually read early, honest DG, I just.... overslept. The shame.

You can't count me as I don't do comments.

I try to read everyday but quite often it's every two days, particularly over weekends, so I may comment on an old topic if I feel I have something critical to say but in a lot of cases probably don't because I doubt anyone (other than DG) reads them.

See, the problem is that while yours is the only blog I read regularly and one of the things that keeps me reading is the extraordinary amount of detail. I am still not sure of something, are you a nerd or a geek?

I love todays post, best use of OCD thus far.

DG
What is your record for the longest time between posting and having a comment added?

dg writes: 4 years, 2 months and 2 weeks.
But if you ignore comments posted today, there's a post in September 2002 which didn't get its first comment until 2005.


Only it would be beter if I could tell the time.

And of course when you occasionally post at midnight on a friday or saturday, you get myself posting in a drunken stupor.

Ho ho

Yes, but do the commenters from any one given time frame smell similarly?

Some of us are obviously bound by far stricter internet use policies at work and don't get to see posts until the evening.

So is the fact that you've appeared in London Lite tonight in the blog column going to change your comment profile?

What, again? They only had me in there a fortnight ago.

I'm afraid I ignored the manic thrustings of the London Lite street vendor as I fought my way home through the rain earlier. I do hope I haven't missed anything thrilling.

Then there are your US readers (west coast at that) who typically read while eating lunch at their desk making our usual posting time - about 9:00 pm.

As a regular member of the 4\\% time slot, I agree that by this time of the evening its easier to read the comments than to add - unless provoked, of course!

Yes, I'm usually in that 4\\% as well, and here I go again!

Uncle Hunty: the first definition of a geek in Webster's Dictionary is "a carnival performer who performs sensationally morbid or disgusting acts, as biting off the head of a live chicken."

Believe it or not, that's about a quarter of these comments by 10am, half by 1pm, three quarters by 7pm and nigh all of them by 7am.
(well, so far, anyway)

No bad thing being in London Lite again - congrats on the publicity (I think...).

I should go back to the original post in question and put my comment there - at least now I know that DG will know about it [and it's not often one gets the chance to be an outlier in other people's stats].

An amusing post. At least you get regular comments everyday. Not sure people are so interested in what I have to say!!

So will this be the last comment on this post?

Not a chance.

Keep it going, folks. This may be the comments box that never dies.

Rachel - I live for your comments
And another USAism that is a mystery.
Bush. Why?

I take it London Lite didn't ask/tell you before including your blog? Technically, it's breach of copyright.

dg writes: They asked me the first time. They've apologised for not asking me the second time.

am i late? what? the party started that many days ago? =

a couple of regular readers of my blog do the day 2,3,4 or older comments on my blog. it reminds me that there are no rules out here. shake things up - comment on a month old post just to see what happens.

Forty Third!

You look younger Debs

I usually fit into the pattern you mention (not this week but not deliberately), and the reason is that I usually only comment if there is something extra to say. If it's already been said, I don't comment. And if there are already dozens of comments I don't see much point, because you have better things to do than read one more person just saying 'well said, dg.'

And then there are the regular readers who have been on holiday for a week, and who are now playing catch-up on a week's worth of posts...

you see, as I said in my original comment, people don't think you (DG) get the comments by email.











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