Comment statistics

[altivo]

Coming up on 1500 entries posted, and past 21000 comments received, so I thought I'd post this thing again. This time I combined the stats for those I know of who have changed names in the last four years. That bumped a couple of people way up in the list.

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Top Commenters on altivo's LiveJournal
(Self and anonymous comments excluded from rankings)

1	cabcat	1583
2	saythename	982
3	gabrielhorse	561
4	songdogmi	417
5	chibiabos	399
6	hellmutt	331
7	schnee	308
8	songcoyote	303
9	calydor	295
10	avon_deer	285

11	goldenstallion	264
12	marzolan	252
13	quickcasey	238
14	corelog	224
15	shadow_stallion	217
16	heavens_steed	212
17	hrrunka	201
18	dakhun	200
19	lobowolf	200
20	zenicurean	180
21	bariki	168
22	soanos	167
23	vimsig	161
24	farhoug	153
25	animist	138
26	zetawoof	128
27	hgryphon	110
28	ducktapeddonkey	108
29	deffox	106
30	vakkotaur	105
31	atomicat	103
32	darkhorseman	103
33	alaskawolf	99
34	kamo2paws	95
35	drelonek	83
36	wolfgrowl	82
37	kakoukorakos	79
38	cats_haven	77
39	typographer	75
40	favouritewindow	75
41	doco	71
42	miktar	69
43	murakozi	68
44	shadowtxhorse	61
45	kildoo_lonewolf	60
46	captpackrat	57
47	keeganfox	54
48	dongstyle_ltd	54
49	tinbender	53
50	jmaynard	49
51	doug_taron	48
52	flaredragon	47
53	aerofox	47
54	silver_kiden	47
55	doc_moreau	46
56	hartree	42
57	cozycabbage	41
58	pokeypony	39
59	bladehorse	38
60	kaysho	38
61	bonnie_tiler	37
62	baphnedia	36
63	ruwhei	33
64	linnaeus	32
65	cetasdolphin	32
66	herefox	30
67	damnbear	29
68	plushlover	29
69	daikitsune	29
70	scruff	28
71	moose_93395	28
72	dragon_punk	27
73	felder	26
74	zachary_geminus	25
75	brokkentwolf	25
76	mymaimary	25
77	fandt4	25
78	delphinelicorne	24
79	flamekist	23
80	drgnkiyo	23
81	kyhwana	23
82	woodychitwn	23
83	rustitobuck	22
84	brunbera	22
85	duraji_synth	22
86	dogteam	21
87	jairus_greywolf	21
88	duncandahusky	21
89	kistaro	21
90	nekura_ca	20
91	rigelkitty	18
92	chakawolf	18
93	biancomago	17
94	nipper	17
95	rrwolf	16
96	kint	15
97	alexsious	14
98	moth_wingthane	14
99	delphinios	14
100	nicodemusrat	13

Total Commenters: 230 (130 not shown)
Total Comments: 21774
Report generated 10/25/2008 11:05:47 AM by scrapdog's LJ Comment Stats Wizard 1.7

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Comments

[schnee.livejournal.com]

#7 and 308? Not bad! :)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

You're pretty busy, between handing out comments and posting in your own LJ. Hmm. I suppose I'll have to squeeze an Argos icon in here somehow...

[schnee.livejournal.com]

Mmm. Yeah, I tend to be quite active on LJ - mostly because there's little else for me to actually do on most days. (As usual, that's something I feel guilty about, too, even though I know I shouldn't really.)

Well, actually, I often feel that I both post and receive less comments these days than I used to, but that may be just my perception.

But it's fun - as long as I've got enough time to actually keep up-to-date on my friends page, I really enjoy this way of communication. It's personal (i.e., generally from one person to another, unlike things like IRC channels etc.) while still allowing others to chime in, it's asynchronous and doesn't require your immediate attention, and you can talk as much or as little as you want to, as well as ignore topics that might be contentious, that don't interest you or that you want to forego for other reasons.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Yep. I think we both have similar views on the uses of LJ.

[schnee.livejournal.com]

*noddles* Apparently. :)

(And of course, while I'm talking about what I like about LJ, I can't neglect to mention the fact that it's hugely useful as a feed aggregator - I've never seen a better RSS reader than one's LJ friends page, and if you add personal journals, communities, nested comments, tracking capabilities etc., it's really a hugely efficient communication hub.)

But I guess I'm preaching to the choire. ^_~

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Actually I haven't been very pleased with LJ as an RSS reader, but if it works for you, good.

[schnee.livejournal.com]

It does, yes... out of curiosity, what's wrong with it for you?

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Well for one thing, I can't get a "headers only" view. Where a new entry listed in RSS contains a metric ton of photos or worse, video links, LJ happily tries to display it all. This is disastrous on a dialup connection.

For another, LJ doesn't seem to understand all the versions and varieties of Atom and RSS that are floating around. Some of them it simply ignores, and never finds any new entries, even though Google Reader and other RSS aggregators do recognize them.

And for a third, LJ makes it too difficult to edit the subscription list. You have to create a feed on LJ and once you do, you can only unsubscribe from it and create a new feed. Most readers let you edit the properties of a feed without releasing it and adding it back.

Lastly, any feed you add to LJ becomes sharable by other users. Usually this is no problem, but sometimes I might not want just anyone to be able to see a list of all my selected RSS feeds.

[schnee.livejournal.com]

Ah, yeah - all these are good points. (As for changing the properties of a feed, you can do so by filing a support request; usually, LJ staff will act upon it quite quickly. But of course, that's really a suboptimal solution compared to being able to do so yourself.)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

LOL! I actually tried the support request approach. They answered back asking "why" I wanted it changed and "who" I was to ask for it. That's tied into the fact that others can hop onto your feed once you create it. Then if you want to change it, you're going to be changing what everyone else gets who has decided to piggyback on you. Cumbersome at best.

[schnee.livejournal.com]

Funny - that never happened to me. Not that I've filed that many change requests (less than a dozen, most likely), but they were all acted upon swiftly and without problems.

As for the rest, that's a feature - you don't subscribe to a feed as much as you add a syndicated account, after all, and I think it's quite useful that it's possible to have - say - the feed URL of a comic strip updated when it changes, automatically showing the comic again to everyone who was reading it. (And the same goes for other things, too, of course, not just comics.)

But YMMV.

[keeganfox.livejournal.com]

Woot! 47th!

[altivo.livejournal.com]

And glad to have you around. :)

[soanos.livejournal.com]

Ooooooo... 30/30 ICON! *pounces and nuzzles*
Uhm, oops. Sorry *blushes and helps back up and grooms clean of twigs and leaves*

I just love 30/30. He's cute. :)

I am a bit low on your list, must improve. :P

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I've never seen the actual animations, but I agree he's pretty cute. I've been watching for a chance to get something and nabbed an actual animation cel off Ebay two weeks ago for less than $10.

Last night I scanned and cropped it to make the icon. Since he has an antenna on his head, it should be perfect for my radio geek posts.

[soanos.livejournal.com]

ooooo. Sounds very nice. I did find the series online, tho. It has been very entertaining so far.
I can warmly recommend it.

And yes, 30 30 is VERY cute. I could hug and groom him all day :)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Not exactly cuddly though, what with being made of metal and all that, plus that nasty big weapon he used to carry around with him. Betsy was it?

[corelog.livejournal.com]

Hee, there I am at #14, plugging away comment by comment. :)

Honestly, it's very easy to lose track of how many times one has commented in a specific journal. I suppose it all adds up, though!

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I'm wondering if when I comment in my own journal like this do they count it as a comment given, a comment received, or both? My totals for comments given are almost embarrassing now: 26,275 comments posted. I should go look at chatty cabcat and see how many he's handed out total... Sometime in the next week or two I'll hit the 1500 mark on entries, but I don't know if that counts just my own journal or also the communities to which I belong.

[chibiabos.livejournal.com]

Whew, I'm the fifth chattiest. :) *slobbz0r*

[altivo.livejournal.com]

*takes a brush to you* Really, look at all these leaves caught in your ruff and mane.

[deffox]

What if someone pads their comments to rise in ranking?

[deffox]

I've seen it before.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Yes, I see. I think you aren't the first to do it here, though. ;p

[soanos.livejournal.com]

And He will not be the last either. I wish I was a bit higher up in the rankings. :)

[quickcasey.livejournal.com]

Unlucky me...couldn't make the top twelve. Let alone top the cat from down-under.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, he's still way out ahead of everyone even though he's not nearly as active as he used to be. I think you may have been pushed down one because of saythename who used to have two other names and I merged them all into one.

[aerofox.livejournal.com]

He is a good commenter. I'm not surprised he's #1

I bet he is #1 in your journal too ^_^

[quickcasey.livejournal.com]

Yes, he is, as a matter of fact.

[aerofox.livejournal.com]

Weeee, I'm way down the list :P

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Maybe because you only bark when you actually have something to say? XD

[silver-kiden.livejournal.com]

woohoo, top sixty!

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Don't you have to be top forty to get air play though? ;p

[soanos.livejournal.com]

Umm... Air play? *confused*

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Sorry, that's probably an Americanism. A common format for popular radio stations, or used to be, was that they played only the current top 40 best-selling songs all day. With lots of advertising interspersed of course. It gets very tiresome in my opinion, but used to be quite popular with younger folks. Sort of like an iPod with 40 tunes in it, set to shuffle and repeat. "Air play" just means playing time on the air. It was a problem. In order to get onto the radio, your recording had to be in the top 40. But if it wasn't in the top 40, it didn't get played on the radio and therefore no had heard of it and didn't buy it. If they didn't buy it, it never could get into the top 40...

[marzolan.livejournal.com]

I passed Rex... yay #12!

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Well, I guess being a tiger means having a wolf on your tail doesn't bother you. Now, if you were a rabbit, you might be nervous. In this case, if I were a pizza I'd get the hell out of there. ;p

[marzolan.livejournal.com]

*giggles* And here I thought it was obvious by now that I actually love having a wolf on my tail... *smirks*

[altivo.livejournal.com]

If it's the right wolf, sure. But you being a member of genus Panthera means the wolf had better be polite and behave himself too, I think. ;p

[zenicurean.livejournal.com]

Twentieth? Oh dear, I clearly need to speak up more. Let's fight about politics or the proper way to fry marshmallows or something. (Though this being election year, I think there's quite enough of the former floating around already.)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Yes, and most of the fighting is on the absurd side too. I've been avoiding it or walking away from most of it. As usual for the last few decades in the US, the majority are seeing this election as a black vs. white absolute decision between two utter extremes, even though the actual candidates (with the possible exception of Sarah Palin) aren't particularly extreme. I'm offended by the tendency of many to treat the whole thing as if it were just another sports competition, but even more squicked by the suggestions of violence, racism, and intolerance that have surfaced.

I'm most disturbed though by the hard-surfaced selfish greed being exhibited by some. You know, the "I shouldn't have to pay taxes" people. They'd be the first to scream if there were suddenly no roads, no law enforcement at all, no educational facilities. But because they were born to privilege and financial comfort, they are absolutely blind to that.

[saythename.livejournal.com]

WHATS WRONG WITH ME!?

*cries pitifully but notices this is
comment 98/3/ and shoots himself.*

=D

[altivo.livejournal.com]

LOL. You'd rather I split the stats back out for your previous identities?

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

How is that possible? I usually make only a glib remark about stealing your food or about mean equines. Granted I make one for each of your posts but still.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

The statistic is just the number of comments, and says nothing about how long they are. ;p

*shrugs*

[gabrielhorse.livejournal.com]

I guess my falling to third place shows a definite shift in my priorities right now... *shrugs* Ah well...

Re: *shrugs*

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Not an issue, really. I don't post it as a scoreboard but rather as a curiosity.