Comments competition

Posted on August 30, 2008 by | 11 Comments

Less than 100 comments to go. The lucky 10,000th commenter gets a prize – a choice from the Clock Store or perhaps one of the anthologies….

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11 responses to “Comments competition”

  1. dean's avatar dean | August 30, 2008 at 1:11 am |

    Why are we so obsessed with round numbers? This is ScienceBlogs for goodness sake! Aren’t there some numbers that are interesting for more reasons than being one followed by some quantity of zeroes? 🙂

  2. bill's avatar bill | August 30, 2008 at 1:58 am |

    Surely we’ve passed the mark now, if there were only 100 to go when you posted that?

  3. bill's avatar bill | August 30, 2008 at 2:00 am |

    … or maybe not, since the 10,000th comment will probably be in this thread…

  4. bill's avatar bill | August 30, 2008 at 2:01 am |

    Who, me? What? Nothing. I’m not doing anything. Why you lookin’ at me like that?

  5. Zeno's avatar Zeno | August 30, 2008 at 2:20 am |

    So is anyone sitting around posting a hundred comments?

  6. eddie's avatar eddie | August 30, 2008 at 3:55 am |

    I still haven’t received my prize for completing the sciblog survey!

  7. Michael Burton's avatar Michael Burton | August 30, 2008 at 11:34 am |

    First post!
    Err, no… wait.
    Gee, math is hard.

  9. Coturnix's avatar Coturnix | August 30, 2008 at 1:16 pm |

    Round numbers. Depends on which science. From the point of view of mathematics, all numbers are equal. From the point of view of psychology, round numbers are important – that is why we even have the term ’round numbers’. They are cute and fun and they can be useful markers.

  10. Greg Laden's avatar Greg Laden | September 2, 2008 at 11:04 am |

    Wouldn’t it be funny if your 10,000th comment was also the one millionths’ comment on Sb. And the one Zillionth comment on the entire internet? (There is a prize for that, yes?)

  11. Pawel's avatar Pawel | September 2, 2008 at 12:09 pm |

    Next one? Me 🙂 Each comment increases the chance of getting the prize, isn’t it?