The Prolific Commenters: February

This is a continuation of plf515's series of diaries listing the people who post at least 1000 comments in a month. I've found all the users I could—47—with at least 1000 comments for February. 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. Last month, I missed several, a couple of whom were brought to my attention at the time.

For those who want to check your own results, just substitute your own username for mine in the URL to check your February comments.

The actual data can be found over the jump.

February is a shorter month, which would tend to lead to fewer total comments. Still, there's a greater drop in most people's comment totals this month than could be explained by approximately seven percent fewer commenting hours.  

Surprisingly, there was change at the top of the list. Perennial first place finisher Salo has been beat out this month. More surprising, the usual second place, Geekesque, didn't make the list at all this month. The number of high commenters was lower this month, as were the quantity of each person's comments. The shorter month could be responsible for a portion of that drop, but it can't explain the full magnitude of it.

There were half a dozen omissions from January's list, which I'd like to note now: Addison, highacidity, inclusiveheart, khereva, oscarsmom, and YatPundit. I'm glad to finally have you all aboard; thanks for qualifying two months in a row so I could find you.

The table columns are user name, user ID, February Comments, January comments, December comments, and comments for the past three months (adding December, January, and February totals). The YTD column is on hiatus, since a two-month total isn't worth much.

       User                           Comments
Name              ID    February   January  December    3 mos    

mayan           29,581    2,493        45         6     2,554
Salo            53,659    2,420     3,154     3,095     8,669
droogie6655321  76,877    2,300     1,772       618     4,690
TAPayne        134,686    1,970        81        90     2,141
Rolfyboy6        7,304    1,915     2,040       708     4,663
oscarsmom       89,687    1,901     1,336       142     3,379
Trix             2,255    1,892     2,033     2,029     5,954
gooserock        7,281    1,831     1,820     1,409     5,060
gchaucer2      104,028    1,804     2,236       670     4,710
shpilk          15,850    1,712     1,846       899     4,457
YatPundit       21,480    1,576     1,471       417     3,464
Inland          56,531    1,556     2,317     1,456     5,329
DemocraticLuntz  
                78,234    1,551     1,074     2,219     4,844
slinkerwink      4,335    1,519       409        13     1,941
TrueBlueMajority
                 7,504    1,451     1,371       835     3,657
Universal      117,880    1,361     2,687     1,727     5,775
noweasels       63,850    1,319       577       949     2,845
khereva         88,062    1,316     1,034       299     2,649
highacidity     22,584    1,313     1,108        44     2,465
taylormattd      3,388    1,252     1,540     1,303     4,095
Yoshimi          9,240    1,189     1,301       682     3,172
vigilant meerkat
                67,340    1,186     1,337     1,241     3,764
ben masel        3,982    1,168     1,274       561     3,003
Addison         18,048    1,168     1,481       290     2,939
MadAsHellMaddie
               104,676    1,166     2,605       844     4,615
grannyhelen     32,971    1,157     2,518     1,711     5,386
Fabian          44,876    1,143     1,306       539     2,988
andgarden       50,344    1,141     1,722     1,748     4,611
campskunk       31,269    1,099     1,622     1,541     4,262
LaEscapee      126,027    1,095     1,429     1,196     3,720
Asinus Asinum Fricat
                63,803    1,080     1,080       733     2,893
aaraujo         56,450    1,073     1,428       802     3,303
ek hornbeck     49,281    1,069     1,280       787     3,136
plf515          75,605    1,067     1,414     1,807     4,288
DFutureIsNow   146,508    1,065       837         0     1,902
NeuvoLiberal    54,442    1,059     1,448     1,046     3,553
inclusiveheart  37,824    1,057     1,198       603     2,858
AlyoshaKaramazov
                23,074    1,052       543       243     1,838
valadon         41,324    1,045       327        82     1,454
Judgment at Numemberg
               119,565    1,039       345        41     1,425
DHinMI             899    1,038       967       814     2,819
teacherken       4,334    1,032       937       696     2,645
BoringDem       25,968    1,026     1,871     1,790     4,687
homogenius      41,422    1,019       687       534     2,240
condoleaser     74,949    1,019     1,239     1,458     3,716
Turkana         53,727    1,018     1,562       702     3,282
Quicklund       83,576    1,005     1,471     1,228     3,704

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

February data was obtained on March 1 at around 6:00am eastern time. Because of the overlapping indices used by Search, comments made in the 21 days leading up to March 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 January, the numbers for that month have been redone here. They'll be a bit lower than you remember from last month, but the changes are generally quite small this time.