Fast Approaching Official OT Comment Number 500,000
Another 500,000 Mark – From Wikimedia Commons (public domain image)
Noticed this the other day while emailing the breeze with Trumwill: We are or were, officially, as of my last check, already out of date as I write, at OT comment number 499,378. I say “officially” because if we included the sub-blog comments – currently in limbo – we’d be well over 500,000 by now, but it’s still a big round marker no matter how you look at it.
Things move too fast in this high-paced internet pseudo-world. Not enough time to prepare an adequate commemoration… Any suggestions?
I have no ideas for commemorating this event. But this is one of the very few sites where I ever consider commenting. The culture here is so much healthier and more respectful than virtually anywhere else out there. Thank you to everyone.Report
Oh yeah? Fish off!
(Just kidding. Glad you’re commenting here.)Report
Public flogging. Obviously.Report
All expenses paid trip to the next Leaguefest, including and strictly limited to the first beer.Report
I will happily pay the winner’s airfare*.
*If I am the winner, and can make it on the specified dates, and I can’t find anyone else to buy my tickets.Report
295 comments to the half-million markReport
This is a very worthy item to commemorate. We have good writers making the top threads here, but it’s the commenting community that really drives the site. So keep them cards and letters coming in, folks!Report
If you would like to know how close you are to #500,000, you should be able to tell if you put this shortcode in your comment: [comment-count]
So, if I’ve done this right, then we’re at comment number [comment-count]Report
I appear to have that right ([comment-count])Report
To be clear, the shortcode continually updates – so it’s not the number of the particular comment, but the number where we are at a given moment… Twould be particularly ironic if the 500,000th comment was me explaining how to tell when we hit the 500,000th comment.
I’m pretty confident that by the 1 millionth comment I could be better prepared.Report
amusingly, the old comments won’t update to wherever the new one is until all refreshed – so there’ll be some apparent inconsistencies… (that’s what I meant about being better-prepared – maybe with some Java- or Java-like thing – for the 1 million mark.Report
So, are there people with comments all queued up to hit the “Post Comment” button as the count closes in on the milestone, trying to be the one?Report
I’m torn between cooking up a marker for it and going on about some other business, and just noting which comment it is when it happens. Good chance it’ll be today whether anyone is preparing or not.Report
We should immortalize 499,999, 500,000, and 500,001 in a sidebar post, under the cut.
And wonder why that freakin’ sidebar post gets 200+ comments when stuff like Dave’s essays barely break 20.Report
and start a betting pool — will it be 1) snark, 2) meta, 3) insightful linky-goodness, 4) humor or 5) an asshat challenge.
My money goes on 2) meta.Report
6) Dave swinging the hammer at a commenting policy violator.Report
good one; though it might fall under meta?Report
@zic
It could, but if it did, I’d have no clue since I barely know what meta is. That could be a good thing.Report
It’s a kind of cheese, Dave. The squishy cheese of discussing social norms.Report
@jaybird
Because no one could challenge them, which was the point. 😉Report
I won’t lie, I’m tempted to try. But it won’t work, I gotta go to the gym.Report
Query: Is there a record of the very first comment??????Report
Absitively – was just looking at it the other day…
I’m a bit disappointed that my (admittedly primitive) debut “Commentariat” page is not updating on time… was gunna invite y’all to watch the fireworks from there… going to have to go for something more conventional, I’m afeared…Report
@greginak
But that suggests a good idea for the “commemorative post”!Report
Yeah. It would be interesting to see the primordial ooze, so to speak, from which all this has spawned.
For the big 500 K is was hoping for something what happened when you won at computer solitaire circa 2004…..stacks of cards jumping out at you over and over.Report
Waaaay ahead of you there, as you will see shortly.Report
You may observe the moment at the page I just mentioned: https://ordinary-times.com/commentariat-0-01Report