Frequent Commenters Shown Appreciation and Get A Slice of the Pie
I’ve been meaning to write a little something about this for weeks.
A few months ago I noticed Paul Stamatiou links to the top six most frequent commenters (Of the last 30 days) at his wonderful tech blog, one of my daily reads. Make it one of yours now!
It’s great to see that blogs, especially medium-sized and major-player blogs, do this. In addition to consistently producing excellent and stimulating content, I can’t think of a better way to repay your followers; it’s fair in that it repays those who give the most; it offers 1) those small fry bloggers a little free publicity, and 2) everyone else a reward for their participation.
The benefit isn’t all the reader’s either - the incentive of publicity encourages more participation, which can only be better for any blog.
Advantages of linking to these devoted participants are obvious then, so why not do it?
I’ll certainly be including this feature at Thought Socks if the comment-rate ever picks up!
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