The Prolific Commenters: January 2008

This is a continuation of plf515's series of diaries listing the people who post at least 1000 comments in a month. This was called "The Big Commenters" last time, but there are so many who write so much that I'm going with "prolific" this year. I've found all the users I could—65—with at least 1000 comments for January. If you think I've omitted anyone who should be on this list—Daily Kos is a big place, and it's too easy to miss even frequent posters—please let me know in comments below.

For those who want to check your own results, just substitute your own username for mine in the URL to check your January comments and, if you're curious about last year, your 2007 comments. You can find the table over the jump.

The table columns are user name, user ID, January comments, December comments, November comments, and comments for the past three months (adding November, December, and January totals). The YTD column is on hiatus, since it would be the same as January; instead, this month there's a 2007 column with the revised number of comments for all of 2007.

       User                                Comments
Name              ID     January  December  November    3 mos     2007

Salo            53,659    3,206     3,095     3,770    10,071    20,225
Geekesque       59,129    3,075     2,434     2,383     7,782    24,731
Universal      117,880    2,828     1,727       780     5,335     2,758
MadAsHellMaddie
               104,676    2,620       844       708     4,172     3,822
grannyhelen     32,971    2,531     1,711     1,160     5,402     4,147
TomP           107,928    2,499     1,633     1,237     5,399    16,507
Inland          56,531    2,352     1,456     1,254     5,062    11,265
gchaucer2      104,028    2,236       670       161     3,067    10,138
Trix             2,255    2,094     2,029     1,774     5,897    10,837
Rolfyboy6        7,304    2,075       708       140     2,923     1,335
kredwyn         30,305    1,905     1,474     1,681     5,060     9,361
BoringDem       25,968    1,895     1,790     1,861     5,546     7,403
Bob Johnson        191    1,869     1,961     1,062     4,892     9,067
shpilk          15,850    1,863       899     1,167     3,929    14,403
gooserock        7,281    1,846     1,409     1,299     4,554    16,080
JedReport      123,078    1,804       602       291     2,697       995
droogie6655321  76,877    1,774       618       947     3,339     8,253
andgarden       50,344    1,749     1,748     1,183     4,680    11,571
RDemocrat      124,921    1,728       909       415     3,052     2,723
campskunk       31,269    1,630     1,541       381     3,551     5,264
Walt starr      16,114    1,610       836       427     2,873     4,658
turkana         53,727    1,573       702     1,341     3,616    13,992
taylormattd      3,388    1,557     1,303     1,166     4,026    10,388
Quicklund       83,576    1,509     1,228       237     2,974     3,143
Iddybud          4,869    1,503       424       193     2,120     2,576
Elise           47,731    1,472       925       678     3,075    14,520
aaraujo         56,450    1,462       802       306     2,570     5,124
LaEscapee      126,027    1,462     1,196     1,238     3,896     4,358
NeuvoLiberal    54,442    1,453     1,046       992     3,491    12,000
cwaltz          68,921    1,446       496       417     2,359     4,555
TrueBlueMajority
                 7,504    1,412       835       371     2,618     5,987
plf515          75,605    1,411     1,807       941     4,159    14,461
Partially Impartial
                72,052    1,405     1,772     1,873     5,050     4,928
MBNYC           76,701    1,392     1,240     1,256     3,888     8,897
ben masel        3,982    1,372       561       543     2,476     6,223
vigilant meerkat
                67,340    1,371     1,241       750     3,362     8,601
pioneer111     104,482    1,365     1,162       919     3,446     9,892
clonecone          606    1,350       645       104     2,099     7,241
kath25          96,029    1,350       917     1,077     3,344    12,727
Fabian          44,876    1,343       539       293     2,175     6,196
Yoshimi          9,240    1,326       682     1,206     3,214    10,883
ek hornbeck     49,281    1,325       787       861     2,973    14,246
FishOutofWater  94,755    1,325       849       535     2,709     6,985
VelvetElvis    110,693    1,274       867       307     2,448     3,797
Daaaaave       108,620    1,268     1,052       721     3,041     2,158
The Termite     36,068    1,256       722       573     2,551     4,724
anna shane      85,009    1,246       833       651     2,730     2,986
Adam B           5,179    1,244     1,346     1,216     3,806    10,268
condoleaser     74,949    1,239     1,458       877     3,754     9,735
Theghostofkarlafayetucker
               108,354    1,239       393       491     1,745     1,239
o the umanity  124,269    1,235       537       885     2,657     3,423
icebergslim    120,781    1,176     1,582     1,586     4,344     8,590
bawbie          13,479    1,143       470       382     1,995     2,888
jlms qkw       133,834    1,143       185       417     1,745     1,239
DemocraticLuntz  
                78,234    1,126     2,219     1,129     4,474    10,482
Ellinorianne   131,442    1,108     1,180       935     3,223     2,959
rserven         65,285    1,103       706       922     2,731    13,376
Asinus Asinum Fricat
                63,803    1,101       733       624     2,458     6,172
N in Seattle       180    1,093       285       191     1,569     2,740
chicago minx   108,072    1,049       483       243     1,775     4,616
bumblebums      16,376    1,047       791       645     2,483     7,984
musing85         6,921    1,046       764       383     2,193     5,278
lpeacock       128,751    1,037       560       141     1,738       861
mrblifil        24,180    1,032       354       701     2,087     3,792
Alegre          47,824    1,003       956     1,638     3,597    11,205

Final notes: the January data reflects all comments made to diaries published in January, not all comments actually posted in January. Using the diaries is a far quicker and more consistent way of measuring, and likely omits as many comments actually made on January 1 as it does include those on February 1.

January data was obtained on February 1 shortly after noon eastern time (with a few exceptions found seven to eight hours later). Because of the overlapping indices used by Search, comments made in the 21 days leading up to February 1 can be indexed more than once. Search counts each of these duplicates, but will only ever display a single instance. (If you've ever wondered why when you ask for 30 per page in a search you sometimes only see 24, it's because of these overlaps—your search had six duplicate entries that weren't displayed in that particular group of 30.)

Since we're outside the 21-day overlap window for December, the numbers for that month and for 2007 as a whole have been redone for people who had been on those lists. They'll be a bit lower than you remember from last month.