The story with a thousand comments
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Rob Cockerham, the genius behind cockeyed.com,(and one of the few, the proud, the Honorary Mad Scientists) decided to assemble an "Elite Comment Strike Force!!!" and auction off 1000 blog comments.
Watching this auction on eBay, one of the things that surprised me was the set of "Similar Items on eBay"; Rob wasn't alone-- and the other guys are serious! There are titles like "100,000 US BLOG Visitors to your BLOG! Real Traffic," and "200 Articles To Boost Your Article Directory/Blog #3." I hadn't really appreciated that there was a market for this sort of mercenary blog traffic. I'll have to keep that in mind next time that I'm a sleazy scum-of-the-internet spam-blog operator!
Do we need to buy hits for our web page? Well, no. It's not like we have any advertising on this page with which to make money. But we are indeed willing to pay for the privilege of being the web site that was the victim of Rob's "Elite Comment Strike Force!!!"
Naturally, I bid, along with 23 other eager folks. The final price was
$90. (Hey, free shipping!)
So, here it is: This is the story with one thousand comments. Strike force, do your worst!!!
To help get things rolling, here's a prompt (which you are completely free to ignore): "what are you going to be for Halloween?"
Update: 10/11/2006, 8:28 AM PST 172 comments so far.
Additional prompt (which you are completely free to ignore): "What kinds of apparatus and instruments for helping to take over the world would you like to see instructions for at evilmadscientist.com?"
Update 2: 10/11/2006, 2:13 PM PST 530 comments so far. More than halfway there! Here is my favorite comment so far, which is from Anonymous @ 152.2.115.201:
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| "I hope you'll recycle these comments when you're done with them. If your local recycling service won't accept comments, you can always take them out back and compost them. Beautiful new comments will begin to sprout from the pile in just a few days. First there'll be little tendrils of haiku. Then longer, more robust slogan vines. Let the natural levels of text succession take their course and you can watch a full-grown treatise grow from what was once a jumble of useless, hackneyed comments." |
Update 3: 10/12/2006, 8:21 AM PST 930 comments so far: The home stretch!
I have found it highly entertaining to watch the dynamic of nest building. We start out with comments like "I challenge you to a bet to see whoever can make a comment string nest to the MAX first!" and "I just want this to nest until only one word shows per line."
And then, of course, we get dozens of comments about the success of that plan of attack: "I find it difficult to read your blog, because I have to scroll horizontally. You may want to consider correcting this."
By the way, if you're having difficulty finding a certain post, you can try using the search box near the top of the left-hand column to help find them. It works pretty well.
Update 4: 10/12/2006, 9:51 AM PST 1000 comments! (Well, 1000 including quite a few from persons-- such as myself-- who are not members of the elite comment strike force, you slackers!)
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