It's been about a year, so...

[active_apathy]

I kind of felt like doing this meme again, mostly because I went and had a look at the last time for no apparent reason.

Additionally, because I can't help myself when faced with a meme, the results table includes the change in ranking from the last time (with previous results adjusted for equal nth) and the number of comments posted since the 15th of January last year.

Note that this is a purely statistical exercise for fun - numbers of comments and positions on the table are for entertainment purposes only, and aren't at all for drama unless you actually don't love me anymore.

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Top 100 Commenters on active_apathy's LiveJournal
(Self and anonymous comments excluded from rankings)

1	palmer_kun	516	↑1	+121
2	eighthcloud	489	↓1	+34
3	maggiebloome	379	↑2	+150
4	laurenmitchell	345	↓1	+79
5	ryttu3k	278	↓1	+45
	deepfishy	278	↑5	+108
7	daphyn	192	↑1	+18
8	herekittykitty	188	↓1	+13
9	leila82	186	↓3	+9
10	theshadowlurker	173	↓1	+1
11	mrpyro	140	—	+11
12	salzara_tirwen	122	—	±0
13	liadlaith	108	—	+2
14	one_bullet_left	102	—	+3
15	goblinpaladin	91	(new)	+91
16	raptor_au	90	↓1	+10
17	shaysdays	83	—	+19
18	silmaril	68	↓2	+7
19	tears_of_nienna	65	↓2	+11
20	captainsblog	62	—	+15
21	fireflyfailure	53	↑6	+26
22	arib	52	↓2	+5
	packbat	52	↑6	+27
	nyctanessa	52	↓3	+1
25	riverchild	45	↓3	+6
26	photosinensis	43	↑4	+19
	analise	43	(new)	+43
28	crackedwraith	42	↓5	+10
29	matgb	37	↓1	+12
30	selenitia	36	↓4	+8
31	sarekofvulcan	35	↓7	+4
32	djcati	32	↓7	+2
33	saikogrrl	32	↑8	+17
34	kittydesade	31	(new)	+31
35	slammerkinbabe	28	↓4	+6
36	kdsorceress	27	(new)	+27
37	peebs1701	22	—	+6
38	bending_sickle	21	↑17	+12
39	ianthefira	20	↓7	+1
40	jetsam_porridge	19	↓8	±0
41	trueflight	18	↑25	+12
	jennisis	18	↑1	+4
	crzydemona	18	↓7	±0
	nekoama	18	↓7	±0
45	caprinus	17	↓3	+3
46	kitsunefury	16	(new)	+16
	alliancesjr	16	↓9	±0
	espionage	16	↓9	±0
49	fluffworld	15	↑1	+4
	aberranteyes	15	(new)	+15
51	tajessa	14	↑1	+4
	hugh_mannity	14	↓6	+1
	ssha	14	↓4	+2
	justwallpaper	14	↓9	±0
55	lackofmendacity	13	(new)	+13
	jmspencer	13	↓10	±0
57	xfunkydoryx	12	↓7	+1
	ohmysyzygy	12	↓5	+2
	secondsilk	12	↓10	±0
	salith	12	↓10	±0
61	lilacsigil	11	(new)	+11
	ladyphoenixia	11	(new)	+11
63	data_warrior	10	↓8	+1
	lietya	10	↓11	±0
65	aurora_z	9	↑6	+4
	travellex	9	(new)	+9
	timba	9	↓4	+2
	lesleykajira	9	↓10	±0
	rainbow_lioness	9	↓10	±0
70	cleobourne	8	(new)	+8
	suitcasegnome	8	↓11	±0
	rastnim	8	↓11	±0
73	phorie	7	↑5	+3
	thesnark	7	↓7	+1
	remingtonmaxwel	7	↓7	+1
	colinmo	7	↓12	±0
	yobadself	7	↓12	±0
	channonyarrow	7	↓12	±0
	bionic_sheep	7	↓12	±0
80	ethernight	6	(new)	+6
	trickster_loki	6	(new)	+6
	fetus_panic	6	↓14	±0
	hestia	6	↓14	±0
84	icanseethebunny	5	(new)	+5
	jeepcat	5	↑6	+1
	treelines	5	(new)	+5
	gdmcrjunkie	5	↓13	±0
	miladygrey	5	↓13	±0
	perfect_beaker	5	↓13	±0
	azdaja_dafema	5	↓13	±0
	sing1118	5	↓13	±0
	the_reader	5	↓13	±0
93	sniper3	4	(new)	+4
	the_s_guy	4	(new)	+4
	iheartpedants	4	(new)	+4
	deepbluemermaid	4	(new)	+4
	jjjiii	4	(new)	+4
	infernumflame	4	(new)	+4
	rosaelena258	4	↓15	±0
	gregor_asmadi	4	↓15	±0

Total Commenters: 316 (216 not shown)
Total Comments: 9226
Report generated 12/01/2008 2:53:05 PM by scrapdog's LJ Comment Stats Wizard 1.7

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And there we have it. 16 people moved up one or more places, 7 didn't go anywhere, and there's 21 new entries on the table. 29 people (or, 28 people who still have a LiveJournal) didn't comment at all, and - unsurprisingly - no-one's comment count fell.

Comments

[laurenmitchell.livejournal.com]

Curses. Clearly I must come up with some kind of gimmick to increase my commenting without being overt about it. The fact that comments are now editable makes this more difficult since I no longer need to post a second comment correcting any errant typos from the first comment.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Mm, possibly. The easiest way, I think, is to say interesting things that I have no choice but to reply to, which makes for very long comment threads that may or may not resemble a series of letters and have recipes for pasta sauces.



Oh! Also, whatever became of the email-story-sharing-thingy?

[laurenmitchell.livejournal.com]

Dear Linda,

I always quite liked this style. Sadly my pasta sauce recipe has meat in it. Mind you, since the other other ingredient is a jar of Raguletto's Garlic and Red Wine pasta sauce, it is probably not all that difficult to tweak the recipe to your specifications.

The round robin has left me and subsequently vanished. I did speak to the next writer and she had received it but not done anything with it. I can poke her again, though, and in fact probably should.

Or I could post the beginning in a new comment and see what you make of it. What think you of that notion?

Love,
Lauren

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Dear Lauren,

it's a fun style. It makes a gratuitous comment conversation feel like something that's a little more than just a gratuitous comment conversation, and that can't possibly be a bad thing. Plus, it helped show me just how badly long comment threads could break my layout.

I think we could maybe do both; I'm probably not the only one on the list wondering where the story's gotten to, and seeing the beginning could be interesting. And possibly a little bit of a break from my present fascination with New Weird.

So. 'Tis a happy notion, just like a tower of soup.

Love,
Linda

[laurenmitchell.livejournal.com]

Dear Linda,

Not that there's anything wrong with gratuitous comment conversations.

I will post the tower of soup... um, I mean the story beginning, in a separate comment.

Love,
Lauren

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Dear Lauren,

Not at all! Whyever would there be?

But where are the turrets... um, I mean, ooh, shiny. Baking and a boat, all at once. Whee!

Love,
Linda

[laurenmitchell.livejournal.com]

Dear Linda,

I suppose if the breaking-LJ-layout issue were still an issue there could be an issue, but it appears that's no longer an issue. I am going to find that last sentence far less funny when I've actually woken up.

The turrets are... um, over there. *waves hand vaguely* In some other scene. Later. Maybe.

I really need to find some sort of program that closes my computer down at 9 PM and is set so I can't start it back up again until 6 AM. Times to be alterable for weekends and holidays (ha, like I have holidays, all my annual leave goes on my sick days because I have no sick leave left). Or a program that gives me actual willpower to get off the damned thing. It's not like I'm doing anything important by 10.30 PM anyway, just wandering around various websites and reading forums and it's all very unnecessary and it's making me waste valuable sleeping time.

Love,
Lauren