Dear readers,
I’ve decided to remove my Top Commentator Widget altogether from this blog. It appears that the plug-in that I used to make it a do-follow on main page only didn’t work really well (Thanks to Deimos to point it out). I was thinking to just hack the original plug-in code to make all the links no follow but I don’t want to mislead people who see the Top Commentator section.
I hope that you’ll still comment on my posts even when there is Top Commentator widget. I still would love to connect with you all and looking forward to see more genuine comments from you.
I’d also appreciate it if you use your name when commenting since I’ve been getting some new spam comments lately that looks genuine but they are not. Comments like these, I usually delete them if I see keywords being used as the name. But don’t worry, as long as it’s obvious that the comments are genuine, I still approve them even if you are using your keywords as the name 
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Ah, I reckon such a generic comment – I found your blog, love the info, will come back again or bookmark it. Bleh. Good move in removing the widget though.
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Thanks Wiehanne
love the personal stories on yours as well
I use my website name as my name because I don’t use my real name on the internet, hope that is not too much a problem.
Btw, i still have my top commenter widget.
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Yup no problem at all as I’ve already known that you are not a spam bot or a typical spammer
At least I’ve still got the CommentLuv plug-in installed so it will display your last blog post and hopefully invite my readers’ clicks to your blog
If you lose commenters simply because you removed the widget, you need to ask yourself the question, did you need those commenters to start off with?
I have always felt that good bloggers know who the regular visitors to their blogs are. They know these guys are visiting, they do not always need to receive a comment from someone to know that that person was on their blog.
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True. Back in the past when I had no comments on any of my posts, I guess every single comment was like heaven, even if it’s quite spammy. Nowadays, I’d prefer to have genuine comments than the ones that are not
Michael its your blog you have full right to boost your blog or dump it
, I think you are jason type person, Who take the U turns very often
Well my blog wouldn’t get up to where it is now without my beautiful readers
Last time, I always care about being in the top commentator list. Nowadays, I care no more about it. And of course, I will still leave comment on your blog.
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Think I had a similar conversation with myself when I was deciding on the matter…Though as you still have comment luv…your commentators are rewarded and hell asking for 2 is greedy!
In regards to do-follow on main page only…I didn’t see that…though I have limited the TC to only the front page now :p
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Well we all are greedy people basically!
It’s just another e-penis tool, “Oh I’m better than you, I’m a top commenter”. It’s probably not a bad idea to remove it on your part, as it kills of that posting for the sake of getting hire in the list.
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Hey!
It does not matter to me whether I am a top commentator or not, as for me the most important thing is to communicate with more people to exchange ideas and get more feedbacks on how to write a best blog. I am going to comment more unless it is bad post, thanks for sharing us.
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Thanks, Sanya. Glad to see you around my blog
Hmm, maybe I can keep my old commenter name on your blog Michael, since you have known me by this name.
Ron
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Yeah no problem with you, Ron
Michael that’s one of the main reason I never use top commentator plugin on my blog.
Though I award the top commentator by giving a back link or I might add 125*125 free advertisement spot for top commentator
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I should have followed you long time ago
But again, I didn’t regret putting the widget on. I guess it was needed to attract comments when there were less people knew about this blog
I am still using Top Commentator plugin but hacked the plugin to put nofollow rel tag in ohter pages except home page.
I am not sure what was the problem with you? can you let me know what happened?
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Deimos from ahkong.net found that the links in other pages are still do follows (even though I’ve checked that the plug-in worked correctly). I suspect it had something to do with installing super-cache on my blog, but I didn’t want to take any more chances, so I took it out completely
why not use the ‘keyword luv’ plugin? that way peeps can use the keyword freely and have their name.
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What is the “top commentator” widget? I’ve never heard of it before but I’m certainly interested.
The “top commentator” widget was a way to encourage people to comment on your blog by giving a link on the frontpage to the site of the commentor. There seems to be a bit of a backlash to it since the link loophole product was released that hacked into the plug in.
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Oh, didn’t know there is a loophole on that plug-in. Glad I took it out