Comments on: Rewarding Top [GAS] Commentators

By: Kiltak

Kiltak — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:36:51 +0000

Preston: In fact, yes, the comments you leave are always of the highest quality, and always highly relevant to the content we post.

When the plugin was up, the blog was receiving a bit more comments, but the difference was mainly composed of stuff such as: “Cool Blog!” Or “Wow! that’s interesting!”.

And obviously, I’m not interested in people posting comments just for the sake of having their name in the sidebar.. :)

By: Preston L. Bannister

Preston L. Bannister — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:34:59 +0000

Are you going to attempt to measure quality, or is this a simple measure of volume (spam wins?).

Since all my posts are of unspeakable quality, well …
nevermind.

By: Kiltak

Kiltak — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:24:40 +0000

Hi Goran,

Well, the reason we removed it was because some people were leaving totally worthless comments just to be on the list. Don’t set it up, I don’t think it’ll bring anything to you.

By: Goran Web

Goran Web — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:03:52 +0000

I have been tasked to research our new blog and I am not sure if we should add this plugin to the blog. I see you dont have one any more. Why did you remove yours, do you get too much spam or did you get enough visitors not to use it anymore. Thanks Goran

By: JCYL

JCYL — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 04:04:34 +0000

Excellent! =)

I’m now looking for a way to incorporate this idea to my free blogger blog. Being a novice blogger everything seems confusing now….

By: Kiltak

Kiltak — Fri, 04 May 2007 17:22:54 +0000

I’ll be monitering the quality of the comments and deleting useless ones. :)

By: two bits

two bits — Fri, 04 May 2007 15:58:23 +0000

Apologize for replying to my own comment, but I wanted to add that this may end up with people just trying to ‘game the system’. Expect a ton of comments just saying ‘yup’ or ‘nice post!’*.

Though I guess you’re still encouraging comments, so maybe it doesn’t really matter.

*(No offense to anyone that thinks their comments fall into this category. This wasn’t meant to call anyone out.)

By: two bits

two bits — Fri, 04 May 2007 15:52:54 +0000

Bribing? Sort of..

But, it’s a very good idea. It’s a win-win. You get some extra traffic, and GAS gets more contributers.

By: Ken V

Ken V — Fri, 04 May 2007 13:36:18 +0000

That’s a pretty sweet deal. The Google angle is questionable though – unless you are on the list week after week you won’t see any real gain. But still, the traffic that could be generated from here is more than most bloggers are doing.

By: Tish

Tish — Fri, 04 May 2007 07:02:27 +0000

Great idea, Kiltak!

By: Andrew Mitry

Andrew Mitry — Thu, 03 May 2007 21:02:49 +0000

Good idea, it always make sense to reward those who are active in your community. Are you using a WordPress plugin for the top commentators section?

By: Kiltak

Kiltak — Thu, 03 May 2007 16:39:12 +0000

Apparently, it works ;)