Here are the rules. I tallied up how many comments each blog posting gathered. I subtracted comments I made myself (it seemed like cheating somehow to include my own posts). So here are the blog posts that y’all thought were most chat-worthy — followed by a brief list of the blog posts I thought would collect a zillion comments but didn’t.
10. Tied for 10th place with 7 non-Greta comments each (thus actually making this a Top 12 list), we have:
The Aging Slut
Mutant Sci-fi Dahlias: The 2006 Christian Dior Paris Runway Show
Tied for 8th place, with 8 non-Greta comments each:
#7, with 9 non-Greta comments:
#6, with 10 non-Greta comments:
#5, with 13 non-Greta comments:
#4, with 16 non-Greta comments:
#3, with 18 non-Greta comments:
#2, with 19 non-Greta comments:
And the clear winner, the post that inspired the liveliest debate and conversation by a significant margin, with 23 comments not counting the 7 that I made myself…
My conclusion: Y’all like a good intelligent debate. You care about literature, sex, religion, politics, film, and deeply weird fashion.
But above all else, y’all are nerds.
And I love you all.
And now that I’ve buttered you up, I get to berate you for your shocking lack of interest in what seemed to be to be obviously compelling and controversial topics. I bring you the Top Three Posts On My Blog That I Really Thought Would Generate A Lot More Conversation Than They Did.
#3, with 3 comments:
Actually, I think I know what happened here. Laura D’s comment was so thorough, and so articulate, and said so clearly what lots of people were thinking, that nobody felt they had anything to add.
#2, with 1 comment:
This one surprised me. I really thought I’d hear more of all y’all’s stories about how you balance your wild lives and your domestic lives. But maybe this wasn’t as big a revelation to y’all as it was to me.
And my Number 1 Post That I Thought Would Generate More Conversation, with 1 — count ’em, 1 — comment:
What the hell is wrong with you people? Where are the anarchists, the libertarians, the “government is inherently evil and oppressive” folks? Where are the hard-assed realists to tell me that my vision of government is hopelessly idealistic and naive? Where are the political science majors to tell me what government really is? Shame on you.
But seriously, folks. I love you all, and I’ve loved every one of these conversations. You’ve made me clarify and re-think my ideas, and you’ve kept me wildly entertained. I hope you’ve enjoyed it a tenth as much as I have. Let’s have as much fun in 2007!
