Last time I ran that script, I got wildly inaccurate results. How confident are you that this presents a reasonable snapshot of your commentors? (Take that, asciident! 15th place is mine!)
Not very - I'd be surprised if nik_w really was the #2 commenter or if bicoherent (a username I don't recognise and that's now deleted) posted 21 comments.
Heh, I just got the paranoid idea that the meme might just be a nefarious way of garnering user-ID-to-username mappings, since LiveJournal users are otherwise hard to enumerate.
Try using the program that I use - you can remove yourself, anonymous posters, and also it allows usermapping - so if you changed your name to "pne2", I could "symlink" pne to pne2 to total the result :)
I do comment quite a lot on your entries, though rarely saying anything particularly useful!:p
Also, for normal renaming, the tool I used will do the right thing because LiveJournal does in the basic data -- for example, "aquariumgirl" changed her name to aquariumgirl recently, and though she hasn't commented with that new name yet, all her comments are attributed to that name.
But there are at least two commenters who "renamed" by deleting their old journal and starting a new one, for whom mapping might be interesting.
I picked the word "reykr," from Old Norwegian, to make it easy to find my blog, just by googling it. I've noticed that Chinese and Japanese bloggers, among others, have started using that word, too.
Today, by googling "Reykr," I ran across your ranking of "most prolific" commentators, and found that my blog was 298. Looking around the vicinity, I found a "billg" at 300, and he seems to be, or at least pretends to be, Bill Gates. It would be pretty funny, if he really was!
I was getting cramped, from sitting at my computer desk last night, and quit before checking out "billg." I see, this morning, that the writer admits to having a fake journal.
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Date: Tuesday, 24 June 2008 13:50 (UTC)no subject
Date: Tuesday, 24 June 2008 13:58 (UTC)Perhaps I should just crunch the numbers myself.
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Date: Tuesday, 24 June 2008 14:04 (UTC)Odd that they don't match my impression, though.
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Date: Tuesday, 24 June 2008 13:59 (UTC)no subject
Date: Tuesday, 24 June 2008 14:48 (UTC)Your journal seems to be awfully popular!
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Date: Tuesday, 24 June 2008 15:05 (UTC)no subject
Date: Tuesday, 24 June 2008 22:05 (UTC)I do comment quite a lot on your entries, though rarely saying anything particularly useful!:p
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Date: Wednesday, 25 June 2008 05:07 (UTC)Also, for normal renaming, the tool I used will do the right thing because LiveJournal does in the basic data -- for example, "aquariumgirl" changed her name to
But there are at least two commenters who "renamed" by deleting their old journal and starting a new one, for whom mapping might be interesting.
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Date: Saturday, 28 June 2008 03:32 (UTC)Do you suppose billg is really Bill Gates?
Date: Monday, 27 October 2008 01:16 (UTC)Today, by googling "Reykr," I ran across your ranking of "most prolific" commentators, and found that my blog was 298. Looking around the vicinity, I found a "billg" at 300, and he seems to be, or at least pretends to be, Bill Gates. It would be pretty funny, if he really was!
Jerry Baker
I see that the "billg" journal is a fake.
Date: Monday, 27 October 2008 15:00 (UTC)JB