20,000 Comments!
September 8, 2011 by Lillie
Another blogging milestone: 20,000 comments!
Of course, since I reply to every comment, there are really only about 10,000 comments from readers. I say about because when I revamped and moved my blog about three years, threaded comments (including all my responses) were lost. So I don’t actually know many comments I have received, but as of today, 20,000 comments appear on posts here. Thanks to each commenter and each reader. I appreciate you all!
In the same time period, I got more than 350,000 spam comments, so 20,000 doesn’t seem like so many. 
Corrected 9/24/11: Just discovered I was looking at only six months of spam comments. I’ve actually had nearly 835,000 spam comments in the same time period as 20,000 legitimate comments!
Hi, Lillie. Congratulations on all your success with this blog. Here’s one more comment to add to your collection! ;o)
Michi,
Thanks for the congrats and for another comment for my collection.
Wow! That’s incredible!
Bluestocking,
When you consider that I’ve replied more than 10,000 times in comments, I wonder if I’ve written more words in comments than in posts.
One more comment for you! I think that even spams have a point: you get so many spams, because your blog is so popular and nice
Thank you, Mia. I will consider the spam a badge of honor.
20,000 real comments is quite a milestone. Reading through your blog I can understand how you reached such heights.
Thank you, Paul.
Dang, congratulations! 20,000 comments is a really big deal. Let’s make it 40,000!
Thanks, Joseph, for the congratulations and for contributing to the next 20,000.
You are very caring blogger. I think care has effect either it is online or offline. Congratulation on this brilliant success.
Naveed,
Thank you for the kind words and the congratulations.
Congratulations Lillie. That’s a truly amazing amount of two-way conversations going on here. I always make a point of heading your way every week. It’s like popping into Aunt Lillies for a cup of tea and homemade spice cake. Your topics are refreshing changes from the plagiarised content of so many blogs these days. Also, according to my blog analytics, a few of your readers venture onto my business oriented blog as well.
Russell,
You’re always welcome at Aunt Lillie’s for tea, cake, and my thoughts.
I’m glad to hear that a few readers are finding their way to your blog from your participation here.
Wow! Congratulations, Lillie! I’ve always loved your posts and I’m sure a lot of people do so as well.
Thanks, Darin.
Congrats Lillie! On the good comments that is, not the spam
Thanks, Christopher. I guess the spam is just part of blogging.
Lillie,
I just wanted to say thanks for taking the time to respond to each comment. I am sure that is a huge part of the reason why your blog is so popular.
Also I wanted to thank you for having such a comment friendly blog so that we may engage in conversations here that benefit each of us in more ways than one.
Ted,
I’ve actually written posts based on comments. Often the insights are much better than anything I write.
Wow, 350K spam comments, huh? Hope you’ve got a pretty good spam filter going on. Deleting all the spams could be more work than responding to the legits!
Jason,
Akismet catches most of them. The number of 350,000 comes from my Akismet stats. Unless someone has asked me to look for a comment they left that may have gone into spam (which is rare), I just wholesale all spam comments every day.
BTW, I just noticed a small problem with your commenting instructions – they say you’ve got 15 minutes to edit your comment, but right now I’m watching the counter tick down just 5 minutes.
Jason,
Thank you for letting me know. I had set it for 15 minutes, but when I checked just now, somehow it had changed to 5 minutes. I’ve reset it to 15 minutes.
20k… Wow, congratulations! I wish I had even half of that
Ash,
Remember half of that is what I really have in comments from other people because I respond to every comment. And my blog has been active for five years, so it’s had a long time to accumulate many comments.
Congratulations Lillie
Your personal touch is the key here, it is not really all that common, and your readers like your replies, and the fact of being appreciated themselves.
G & P – Rhys
Thank you, Rhys. I do enjoy the community of my commenters.
That’s an incredible achievement Lillie. It goes to show that if you put time and effort into your passion results will come. Well done!
Thanks, Simon. A lot of success is just the power of showing up–just keep writing posts and responding to comments.
Wow, if you compare 350,000 bad comments to 20,000 good ones, it’s 1/17.5 comments are valuable. Nonetheless, 20K is an impressive amount, so congratulations on your comment milestone.
Susan,
Yes, there are way too many spam comments!
Wow. This is a great number of comments. Congratulation. But 350.000 spam comments… This number is huge. Sounds like a lot of work to find and delete all those comments.
Armanda,
Fortunately, Akismet does an excellent job of sorting out the spam. Only occasionally do I have to look at spam–if someone writes me that their comment didn’t appear and they think it went into spam by mistake. Usually I just go to spam and hit the delete key and watch hundreds of spam comments disappear.
With lots of automated software popping out nowadays and selling like popcorn spam comments are really inevitable specially on blogging sites.
Kyle,
I just don’t understand why people think spamming is profitable.
Well congratulations for your success. Include this one comment of mine to your collections and you did a great job having all of this comments
Thank you, Laurie.