Amazing lol…
Seems like just yesterday I made my first post….
Its hard to imagine 60k comments. Especially when about 80% of them are manually approved with all the spam filters we have.
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Congrats on the milestone of 60,000 comments. That is a heck of an achievement. Looks like you got 3 plugins to update too
Hey congrats for reaching the 60,000 mark!
Wow that’s a lot of comments to approve by hand. Congrats and keep up the good work!
thats a lot of frickin comments. nice to have an opinion that matters to so many people
wow , Congratulation !!
VIVA WORDPRESS
It seems like your popularity has gone to an all new high. Very nice. I smell a pork product on the burner.
That’s an awful lot of comments, congrats!
Congrats.
Oh, and I checked out your first post, btw. Seems like dupe content to me, dude, cause I’m SURE I’ve seen that post some other place before.
Well done, though.
That’s a lot of comments!
What plugin are you using that gives you a running count on how many comments your site has?
that is just wordpress…
A lot of manually approved comments then. 60K is a great achievement though. Only a few more months till 100K
Really? I dont have it on mine either. Just have a post count and category count
very impressive indeed! How much does that work out per month ?
Congrats! Doesn’t it get time consuming to moderate the comments manually?
Here’s number 60,013
Only 39,987 left!
congratulations Jeremy!
Well done.
very impressive…im at about 200 lol but then again my blog is only 2 months old
Wow! That’s a lot of comments to review and approve. How much time do you spend each day approving comments?
My first comment showed up pretty fast in a few minutes, and subsequent one immediately. That’s some fast manual approving.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/comments_number
By the way did you change your HOME PAGE TITLE Today 3 times , just to take a good screenshot ? :p
600,000 more shoe. I’m trying to learn how to get my users to do this. Comments are very important when it comes to organic searches I am finding. Again, congrats and many more.
You’re only 50,000 comments behind me.
Nice Gravatar John Chow !!
You get it by default in the wordpres 2.6 interface!
Ha ha and you are just 90000 ahead of me
Congratulations for the milestone.
Thats definitely a lot of comments to approve by hand. I thought my 20-40 comments every couple hours was a big deal!
Congratulations- this is so exciting!
Do you have to set up your site on a load balanced system? There aren’t many mega Wordpress sites out there, and they all seem to have custom solutions for handling the volume.
Congrats! FYI, I think the site is unfriendly to iPhones… to mine, anyway.
Hahaha, Yeah thats not that many. It might be some de-activated plugins. I think I have 7 to update myself.
i hate updating plugins it always takes more time than i’m willing to spend on it
Hahaha, it is familiar isn’t it
Depends on what version of wordpress your using Lyndon. If you need any help just follow my link to my contact form and I’ll assist you.
It usually does specially with that many comments marked as not spam. I wonder what his AKISMET spam count is. I’m at 500,000 for that but then again im really popular in terms of Spam!
I would say around 1600-1700 per month or 54-57 a day. Really great results!
man 80% are approved manually? wow thats a lot!
haha, thats not that far.
yes its a very great achievement.,.
Wow! 60,000,that’s a lot of comments. Congratulation..
…and 90% are people that are just trying to get Macbooks ….. (pointing to himself)
60,000 comments is indeed quite an achievement. Congratulations, Jeremy, and may the second 60,000 come in half the time! It took you just shy of three years to achieve this. Impressive indeed!
Shoemoney is indeed a wonderful testimonial to the effectiveness of Wordpress in the blogosphere. VIVA WORDPRESS indeed!
Wow!!! 60,000 sounds like a LOT of comments.
Went to check pout the first post too, and this is what I got when clicking the link…..
“Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!” I am sure that wasn’t the first post, please help me out here!
Averaged out. Recently the numbers are higher. A graph showing the growth curve would be nice. Now that Jeremy is running contests I’ve definitely noticed an increase in comments posted, and lots of new “faces” on this blog too.
Not for long! Watch this space!
Great milestone, congrats
Wow, that’s a lot of comments. I notice that is just the approved comments, if you add in the spam/removed comments how many would that be? Manually approving comments is hard work, but it’s the only way to ensure quality – automated filters will never be as smart as a human being.
Popularity is good. Сongrats!
Congrats Shoemoney! That’s really a great achievement!
Congrats on 60K comments, that’s great!
That is a sick milestone. Congrats!
By the way, care to share the size of your database?
congratulations!!! that was a tough work,
keep it up pal.
Thats amazing…
Yours is not a blog, but a forum
Thanks to us
Congrats on 60k comments man, that’s ridiculous
well thats really a lots of comments.i love to see my blog with that kind of amount of comment:)Congrats though
So… the real question is..
How many does John Chow have?
We’ll have to wait for him to post it, if he does. I don’t know, I have more respect for shoemoney, but john looks like he gets more traffic.
Congratulations! 60k is a nice amount.
Where can I see this post??
My site still hasn’t even broken the 1,000 comment mark, but congrats on the achievement! And Geiger, if you want to know how many comments John Chow has, just look at the number at the end of a comment you posted in the URL
WOW!
Great job, most of us will never see that amount.
well done shoe…you have writen alot of useful info ! Keep posting !
Lol, you alone make up the 90% ?
I would like to see the $ per comment metric
Did you both check a few comments above?
John said he has more than 100,000 comments..
LOL, can’t believe you left that comment on the blog!
And the time frame to reach there…
It probably will come in half the time. That is a great achievement. There are a lot of comments per post as well.
It is crazy how scalable wordpress is after seeing stats like that.
that would be nice to see… though I am sure hard to measure with affiliate links and other things, but an estimate would be nice…
Good work. I wonder how long to 100k.
Congratulations! Here’s to 60K more!
even on his first post he got 5 comments , and i’m sure if the comments were not closed he would have much more !
i think only first time commenter’s are manual and the post that contain URLS
mine has broke the 40k Comments the only difference is that they are all SPAM COMMENTS !
Huge feet! Looks like you have finally made it
Average of 150 comments / post
2 posts / day
100 – 60 = 40 k
40 000 / 300 = in aproximately 133, 33 and for the % of error let say he will have his 100K during the next 6 months
Wow congratulations! That’s quite an accomplishment. Better celebrate with a beer at Lazlo’s tonight.
congrats man it took me awhile to get my comments approve
wow!.. that’s a lot of comment to moderate..
hope my blog receive that lots of comments someday!..
Congratulations Jeremy.
You are a true inspirational blogger.
I wish I will reach a position like you one day.
I’m good, but thanks for the offer
Didn’t realize it was added to 2.6, since I have upgraded yet. But I will be doing it soon.
It’s really amazing how many of them have the same tone of voice and spelling errors too. We must all think alike! Your really amazing tho and a very funny guy.
wow that is an impressive number of comments. 60,000 comments, that seem so far-fetched to me.
That’s a lot of comments. John Chow has twice that but nonetheless that’s a ton!
Any one read John’s latest post? He’s past the bleeding 100k mark!
dont u think bulk of those are spam . . .like this right now
The next milestone is 120 K. How much time will need to do so? -)))
Whether the comment on a blog post is a single line or has got more lines of comments, people has responded to it that is the thing to be considered.
simple way of life
Do comments help with SEO at all?
Over 110,000 for John. I wish you guys would leave your posts open for comments longer. You would definitely have a lot more.
I would think so. The more content you have, the better.
Just checked. 428 for JayGeiger.com WOO HOO
why you have not removed the first post ?
congrats on the 60k …. I think I’d be ecstatic with just 60 so I can’t even imagine moderating 60,000 + comments.
Congratulation to you that is big achievement for 3 years from the day you start blogging
Awesome work Jeremy. I cannot tell you how impressed I am at that! Damn, you get 100 commments for writing a post about how many comments you get. Brilliant!!!!
Dang shoe, that is alot of comments.
I agree with the guy who just posted. you write you just hit 60k comments, and you get another 100. But then, just about anything you write is worth that many comments.
Have you figured out how much each comment is worth to the value of the income of the blog?
Thats a lot of comments for you man!
Congratulations on the 60K comments. I only have 500 on my blog. ^^
Congrats for 60,000 comments. Thats a lot….wow!
I got some 120 or 130 :p
hehe, to be honest, I didnt even think I’d get to 100 lol
John Chow’s posts definitely is seen with more comments. 100,000 is another Insanic value..Shocking
Macbook? You get macbook by commenting?
haha nope. Forum Posts and comments can definitely not be compared. Posts are way too fast than comments. Even a comparison is like woah, too much hehe.
Blogs gets LOADS of spam thats why. Everyday 100s of spammy porn comments with full of links. I hate it. My blog is not even popular and I get 100s daily…
That is a lot of comments
Yes it’s pretty cool that a lot of people are commenting here + the new contest has encouraged evryone to comment.
lol is the contest effect, people are working hard to get the shoemoney tshirt
146 comment for 145 post, 7 months blogging experience and 0 spam tolerance.
quality comments worths, bullshit no!
wow! congrats! ill be visiting this site from now on!
Love this blog – I visit everyday.
Regards.
Congrats! Great Blog
Will Be here more often
Congrats… if only I could attract a large user base…
Congrats! From I registered, I come here everyday.
Congrats on getting to that great milestone. Soon it will be 100,000
A very good achievement, i noticed your feedburner is at 20k but idk if that is peak.
great accomplishment – I have a blog that probably have 10,000 unapproved spam posts
Man that’s a lot of comments. Congrats.
60,000 is a lot of comments. WOW! Congrats on that milestone