Click Opera hits and misses of 2008

[imomus]

When a blog entry racks up a hundred comments, it doesn't necessarily mean that people love what they're reading -- they might be shouting in exasperation, correcting mistakes, or just chatting with each other. And when a blog entry only gets one comment, it doesn't mean it's a hundred times less noteworthy. It may simply leave you with the feeling

Comments

[ext_140086]

Well, at least while the weather sucks, I'll be helping drive your comment numbers up. With mistakes!

Alienating posts

[anonymous]

There is probably some algorithm that you could employ to drive up comment traffic, if that was your aim. I basically have a tea party of about six people who comment while they're at work. There aren't enough of them for them to feel comfortable venting.
But for some damned reason, if you put a picture of a mule up, the traffic spikes. Since I've noticed this I've been obsessively larding all my posts with photographs of mules. I don't know if this will work outside of North America.

[anonymous]

Of what interest could it be to anyone but yourself which of your entries got the most and least comments?

Collywobbles

[ext_140086]

Ooo does someone ever have them badly. You can almost hear the tummy rumbling.

[imomus]

Really?