200,000th comment: who will it be?

39 comments on “200,000th comment: who will it be?”

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   And the lucky winner gets the choice between a free subscription to ‘high times’ or ‘National Socialist New Zealand Workers Party’.
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      Is that supposed to be humour?
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   Nah, just an attempt to be the 200,000th. As is this. 🙂

   BTW, if the comment number is approaching 200,000, and again very well done The Standard, why then in the URL line the following “#comment-251773”?
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      At a guess 251773 includes spam deleted, which we don’t count, we’re counting 200,000 real comments.
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         Mostly spam
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         that’s right, 50,000-odd deleted spam. there’s a small problem that The Standard’s twitter account automatically tweeting every post now counts as a comment… but we’ll just ignore that.
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      I suspect the difference is a couple of thousand comments from people who foolishly annoyed Irish Bill and have now been airbrushed from the pages of history ; )))
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         We’ve always been at war with Eastasia!
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         Nope. Once people are banned then their subsequent comments are deleted and if they persist then they’re added to the spam list. Very few people bother putting in comments that don’t get visible. They’d be measured in a few hundreds at best.

         The spambots are the real problem. Far more persistent than humans
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   Congratulations to those that post the articles that prompt the comments, to those that comment sensibly and promote further discussion, and to those that delete the “contributions” that keep discussions from descending to the gutter.

   Statistics can be important – I have not seen a comparison of different blogs for some time, but the success of a variety of different sites devoted to rational and thoughtful posts and discussion may assist avoiding one individual continuing to be introduced as “New Zealand’s most successful blogger and independent political commentator!” (or similar words).
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   I had bacon, eggs and hash browns for breakfast.
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   Is
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      this
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         cheating?
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            Yes
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               and
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                  premature
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   still
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   170
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   comments
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   to
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    go
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       Anti-spam not working?

       😛
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       Ummm… I think Marty G needs to get banned until after the 200k’th comment has passed.

       😈
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          And evidently BLiP as well ?
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             Harsh!
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                I don’t come here to be ‘nice’. In fact I’d say that I’m well known not to be.
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    BLiP and Marty G, sounds and looks like it is going to be a late night for the both of you!
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    Did i do it huh ?…did i do da damage ?
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    When counting, how about leaving out any rightwing posters – you know like the rightwing do in government, leaving out anyone who isn’t a corporate, farmer, moneytrader, finance thief, business roundtable fat cat/rat…
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    This is the worst orgy of attempted self-gratification I’ve seen since Shane Jones last booked a hotel room 😈
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       Oh, bite your bum, Rex.
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       Haha
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       We have always noted in posts most of the milestones of significance in this sites history. Every 1000 posts and every 50,000 comments has been posted on.

       Why should we stop now?

       [lprent: By accident this was the 200,000’th comment. I wasn’t looking. It is all the fault of Rex. ]
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          Uhhh – Lynn – check the counter!
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             Oh shit. I was number 200k…. Castigating Rex on his comment about us putting posts up about our milestones.. 🙂
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                Yup! Hoooowzat!
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          You are not part of the Parkistan cricket team happenings of late ?????? 🙂
          I was hoping my Skeptics link was it just for to increase appreciation of the video and being used in context. 🙂
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    Are we there yet?

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