{"id":26832,"date":"2015-05-24T06:47:12","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T11:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=26832"},"modified":"2015-05-24T06:48:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T11:48:03","slug":"top-32-posts-by-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=26832","title":{"rendered":"Top 32 Posts, by Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday Krellen said this to me:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shamusyoung\">@shamusyoung<\/a> Supergirl must be up there with your top-commented posts now.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; krellen grumpyman (@krellend20) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/krellend20\/status\/601737486449016833\">May 22, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, the <a href=\"?p=26745\">Supergirl post<\/a> exploded in just a few hours. Partly this is my fault. I was trying to do this hairpin turn argument where I would list all the ways the trailer looked awful and then pull a 180 and argue why it was just fine, and might even be a good thing. But either I whiffed the turn or some people stopped reading halfway through, because a lot of people pushed back, thinking I was attacking the show. That probably made the discussion a little more controversial than it needed to be. Ah well. We hammered it out.<\/p>\n<p>But it did get me thinking: What are the most commented<span class='snote' title='1'>And thus, probably the most controversial.<\/span> posts on this site? So I did a little MYSQL query<span class='snote' title='2'>SELECT comment_count, ID, post_date, post_title FROM `wp_posts` ORDER BY comment_count DESC LIMIT 32;<\/span> to find out. Below are the results and my analysis.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" class=\"insetimage\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>Number of<\/br>Comments<\/td>\n<td>Year <\/td>\n<td>Post<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>1<\/td>\n<td>1,035<\/td>\n<td>2011<\/td>\n<td><a href='?p=12768'>Autoblography Part 11: Roller Rinks and Jesus<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>2<\/td>\n<td>817<\/td>\n<td>2012<\/td>\n<td><a href='?p=15395'>Mass Effect 3 Ending Deconstruction<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>3<\/td>\n<td>729<\/td>\n<td>2007<\/td>\n<td><a href='?p=1313'>DM of the Rings CXLIV:The Long-Expected Parting<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>4<\/td>\n<td>634<\/td>\n<td>2011<\/td>\n<td><a href='?p=14045'>Autoblography Part 40: A Word On Education<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>5<\/td>\n<td>563<\/td>\n<td>2012<\/td>\n<td><a href='?p=16303'>Series that Went on Too Long<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>6<\/td>\n<td>539<\/td>\n<td>2011<\/td>\n<td><a href='?p=11445'>Experienced Points: DLC for Dummies<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>7<\/td>\n<td>520<\/td>\n<td>2007<\/td>\n<td><a href='?p=1462'>WordPress Plugin: Wavatars<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>8<\/td>\n<td>517<\/td>\n<td>2012<\/td>\n<td><a href='?p=16959'>Mass Effect 3 Part 1: We Fight or We Doy<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>9<\/td>\n<td>440<\/td>\n<td>2011<\/td>\n<td><a href='?p=14239'>Star Wars: The Old Republic Beta Impressions<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>10<\/td>\n<td>431<\/td>\n<td>2007<\/td>\n<td><a href='?p=1247'>Would you have survived in the middle ages?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>11<\/td>\n<td>430<\/td>\n<td>2011<\/td>\n<td><a href='?p=11611'>Stolen Pixels #257: The Electronic Artists<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>12<\/td>\n<td>426<\/td>\n<td>2012<\/td>\n<td><a href='?p=15455'>Science Fiction&#8230; in SPACE!<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>13<\/td>\n<td>424<\/td>\n<td>2011<\/td>\n<td><a href='?p=14100'>The Old Republic NDA<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>14<\/td>\n<td>419<\/td>\n<td>2011<\/td>\n<td><a href='?p=10944'>Spoiler Warning Season 4 Finale: Don&#8217;t Fear the Reaper<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>15<\/td>\n<td>403<\/td>\n<td>2011<\/td>\n<td><a href='?p=11809'>All Word Processors Suck<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>16<\/td>\n<td>402<\/td>\n<td>2011<\/td>\n<td><a href='?p=14422'>Skyrim Thieves Guild Part 1<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>17<\/td>\n<td>400<\/td>\n<td>2011<\/td>\n<td><a href='?p=11560'>The Virus<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>18<\/td>\n<td>400<\/td>\n<td>2014<\/td>\n<td><a href='?p=23965'>4 Reasons Why The Mass Effect 3 Debate Refuses to Die<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>19<\/td>\n<td>395<\/td>\n<td>2012<\/td>\n<td><a href='?p=14817'>Protect IP \/ SOPA Act<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>20<\/td>\n<td>390<\/td>\n<td>2011<\/td>\n<td><a href='?p=12475'>Femshep<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>21<\/td>\n<td>389<\/td>\n<td>2012<\/td>\n<td><a href='?p=17127'>Mass Effect 3 EP9: Interocitor Cycles<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>22<\/td>\n<td>388<\/td>\n<td>2011<\/td>\n<td><a href='?p=12510'>Diablo III<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>23<\/td>\n<td>382<\/td>\n<td>2011<\/td>\n<td><a href='?p=12349'>Sherwood Showdown<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>24<\/td>\n<td>382<\/td>\n<td>2012<\/td>\n<td><a href='?p=16976'>Mass Effect 3 EP2: Now I Have A Machine Gun<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>25<\/td>\n<td>378<\/td>\n<td>2012<\/td>\n<td><a href='?p=16990'>Mass Effect 3 EP4: Gigantic Space MacGuffin of Doom<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>26<\/td>\n<td>364<\/td>\n<td>2014<\/td>\n<td><a href='?p=22554'>Diecast #49: Broken Age, OOPS FEMINISM, Dark Souls<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>27<\/td>\n<td>359<\/td>\n<td>2012<\/td>\n<td><a href='?p=17939'>Overthinking Zombies<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>28<\/td>\n<td>358<\/td>\n<td>2011<\/td>\n<td><a href='?p=12660'>Spoiler Warning: Coming Soon<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>29<\/td>\n<td>353<\/td>\n<td>2012<\/td>\n<td><a href='?p=17880'>Mass Effect 3 EP41: Artistic Integrity<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>30<\/td>\n<td>352<\/td>\n<td>2012<\/td>\n<td><a href='?p=14654'>Errant Signal: Half-Life<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>31<\/td>\n<td>349<\/td>\n<td>2012<\/td>\n<td><a href='?p=16275'>The Slow Death of Netflix<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>32<\/td>\n<td>344<\/td>\n<td>2011<\/td>\n<td><a href='?p=14305'>Assassin&#8217;s Creed 2 EP30: Requiescat in Pace<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>As the title suggests, <a href='?p=12768'>Autoblography Part 11: Roller Rinks and Jesus<\/a> is about religion, which probably explains why it&#8217;s sitting at the top of the list. Number 4 is the finale of my personal story, and skirts around political issues<span class='snote' title='3'>Roughly: How should society go about educating itself?<\/span>. Number 7 is a bit of a mutant. It&#8217;s actually just hundreds of people testing to see what random face is generated from their email, so there&#8217;s not much of a discussion going on. One of these days I might just nuke all the comments on that post. Nobody cares about those comments and nobody will miss them. I dunno.<\/p>\n<p>Entries 2, 8, 11, 14, 18, 20, 21, 24, 25, and 29 are <strong>all<\/strong> about Mass Effect 3 &#8211; about a third of all the top posts. We could also give partial credit to number 5, since Mass Effect was a popular nominee for title of &#8220;Series that went on too long&#8221;. So maybe the Mass Effect 3 ending is just a major sore spot with this community. <\/p>\n<p>However, if you look at the dates you&#8217;ll see all but four entries on the list are from either 2011 or 2012. Maybe Mass Effect is a big deal, but maybe this blog was just really, really popular at the time and Mass Effect just happened to be the most popular topic during our heyday<span class='snote' title='4'>2011 was my period of maximum output: Stolen Pixels Webcomic at the Escapist, a Let&#8217;s Play at the Escapist, a weekly column at the Escapist, Spoiler Warning, plus a steady steam of reviews and essays on the blog. I wish I could maintain that level of output forever.<\/span>. I actually don&#8217;t know. I dumped all of the Google Analytics code when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/shamusyoung\">I went from advertisements to direct Patreon support<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>That was incredibly liberating, but it does sort of deprive me of a way to study traffic trends. Then again, that&#8217;s kind of the point. I can just write what I&#8217;ve got in my head \/ heart and not worry about traffic, content, or ad placement. <\/p>\n<p>For the curious: As of right now, the Supergirl post comes in around #40 or so in the list of top-commented posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday Krellen said this to me: @shamusyoung Supergirl must be up there with your top-commented posts now. &mdash; krellen grumpyman (@krellend20) May 22, 2015 Yeah, the Supergirl post exploded in just a few hours. Partly this is my fault. 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