Week 2 of Comment Competition
We're into the 2nd week of the comment competition now, with the prize to win a free ticket to our National Conference in October. So far over 850 comments have been posted. The current leaders are:
| 1. | Simon Oates |
| 2. | Ray Cohen |
| 3. | Colin Miller |
| 4. | Vince Pizzoni |
| 5. | Andrea |
It's still wide open so keep on posting.
Adi
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Good to see my incredibly obsessive levels of commenting have finally paid off :). Not often you get a website that actively rewards people for participating at a higher level!
Go Simon! - I predicted you would be top of the leader board! I've been getting notifications of your comments on some blogs from May!Its great because it keeps all the subjects alive and encourages others to look at them again and maybe also comment.
Lets see how many comments we can generate on the comment competition!
I think this is a great competition as it actively encourages people to look at a wide list of blogs and posts than they may otherwise do and stimulates thinking and discussion. Long may it continue (even though I have come to it too late due to being on holiday!)
Yeah it's gone well. Nearly 1,000 comments have been left in the three and a bit weeks of the competition. Can't grumble with that at all and it's been great to read so many interesting debates around the blog.
What I think has really changed is that more people are actually posting comments rather than just reading the article - prior to this lots of articles had 0 or 1 comment although they would show that more people had given it a rating.
Does everybody know about rating articles?
Maybe there's another competition in this aspect for you Adi ;-)
I'm thinking YouTube as the destination for my next competition ;)
Very good Adi - like it! Out of interest, do you have any stats about the number of ratings v the number of comments?
I do indeedy. If you look at the archive page
http://blog.managers.org.uk/archive.aspx
it shows at the bottom the number of comments/ratings/posts
So it does - sorry hadn't noticed this before. Maybe I have never reached the bottom!!
It shows the number of raters - presumably based on the number of ratings given to each article (as opposed to the literal number of individual raters). Presume you can only rate it once (and have it counted?).
Are the comments working on the number of comments on a blog or the number of individuals who have commented on the blog? If the first (which I suspect is the case) have you any idea what the true comparison would be?
The comment figure is the total number of comments made on the blog. I don't have the total number of commenters since the blog started but have kept a track of things since the blog competition started, and we've had 60 commenters in that period. As is often the case with these things, the majority of comments have come from a relatively small number of people.
Thanks Adi.
I am not surprised that the majority of posts come from a few people although it is good to see that 60 different people have commented.
I would guess that the number who rate articles without posting comments is higher than the 60 who comment - the silent voyeur!
By the way - aren't we overdue a weekly update :-)
I don't know the number of individual raters unfortunately, but the general rule of these sort of things are of 100 viewers, 10 might rate something and 1 interact. You're quite right about the update, the competition ends on the 13th, which is Thursday, so I'll do an update now in case anyone wants to make any last minute dashes for the line.
I can't attend the Conference due to other work committments but I enjoy commenting on the blogs and the twitter updates are a really good reminder so well done Adi :o)
Hopefully I'll be tweeting and various other bits and bobs from the Conference, so even those that can't attend physically can still join in virtually.