It was a busy weekend and I almost missed the fact that, since officially launching on March 32nd, 2022, The Autopian has logged over 200,000 comments as of this weekend. That’s mighty impressive for a site that’s barely over a year old and a sign of what a wonderful community we have here. The comments on The Autopian are not an afterthought meant to dangle there to make space for more ads, they’re a big part of what we offer. Would you like to see what the 200,000th comment was?
Of course you do.
Here’s a link and here’s the comment:
That comment is in reference to this post about the Georgia DMV banning kei trucks and the ridiculous double standards in place. The humor, sanity, and vigor involved In the post (plus all the exclamation points) make it a perfect Autopian comment.
These aren’t just one-offs, here are some fun stats:
Also, we have six commenters with more than 1,700 comments, with the top two commenters (you can guess who those might be) competing for the top spot with each one hovering around 2,000 comments.
How many months do you think it’ll take us to get to 300,000 comments?
If you had told me we had 200,000 comments just in defense of 70’s shitboxes I would have believed you.
200,504 and counting.
+1
How long to reach 300K comments?
How many licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop??
Only the wise old owl knows..
200,000 comments?
I’ve definitely added more than necessary to that tally.
I worry about excessive shitposting so I know I’m not in the top 100.
Two hundred thousand comments?! Say, you guys weren’t created in a lab in Wuhan were you? Congrats.
Here’s to another 200k comments 🙂
You guys really need to do a “top 10 commenters who
have no lifeare dedicated to great automotive content!” post 😀Don’t encourage us…I mean them. Don’t encourage them.
I can’t think of a better comment to encompass who and what the Autopian is. Kudos all around!
Very few people tell me that my opinion counts. Thank you!
“You’re the 200,000th Poster! Click Here to see what you’ve won!!!!!”
Dinner with Elon Musk and Shawn Fain. BYOB.
Excellent. Will they get some show/manufacture merch? 🙂
I need to keep up on the newer posts, but I’m one of the most active on the discord for better or worse.
Neat
(takes picture)
I just want everyone to know that I have no useful or insightful comment to make about this post.
It would be fun to see how many comments and likes everyone has next to their profile (if that’s even possible with the current system). As an example, TheDrive has this if you hover over peoples usernames.
AP Top 25 Commenter Rankings when?
In the interest of continued and useful site growth, we might want to emphasize quality [of posts] rather than quantity, or at least quality combined with quantity.
The discussions here tend to be good because people bring differing ideas and perspectives. Encouraging people – even indirectly – to try simply to post the most will dilute the discussions; we should be looking for more wheat, less chaff.
Did you and 10001010 plan this? LOL
I’ll never tell
No.
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I dunno, it could take a while.
Reply to yourself much?
Taking a page out of the phantom pedal book.
Congratulations on finding how deep you can go with replies before hitting the limit.
Yeah, that was painful dude.
Now i feel the need to comment more often and become the very best.
OPPO has the Oppodometer (just rolled 1,200,000).
I make a motion that yours is dubbed “the Autopdometer”.
Keep an eye out for 222,222!
If you need a reason to join the Discord, the member room on the Discord got to see the top six at one point! (At that point, only 4 were above 1700.)
I hear that top commenter was very surprised by how much they have commented.
Can confirm.
I heard you like comments.
So here’s a comment to inflate your comment totals in an article about comments.
Yo dawg, I heard you like comments, so
weI put a comment on your comment.I have nothing to say, just happy to be the first to comment on this post about comments!
Wait….this isn’t a post about the evolution of the shape of the pilium?
um…never mind