I don’t miss the spammers flooding my site with their worthless “comments” for Ugg boots, pyramid schemes and celebration gossip but I did miss the opportunity of receiving a peep from a friend on a story.
So to celebrate, I’m putting the comment counter, meter, gauge…whatever!…back up to track when I finally receive a legitimate 500th comment from a friend, maybe even a stranger who had something worthwhile to say; it has happened twice, that reminds me, I owe one of them a photo. If you’re the lucky commenter, I will give you a reward worth $25 USD. When I started this site, I wanted to get my friends more engaged in a conversation. I know with today’s younger, hipper crowd, Web pages (or ‘blogs) are passé. It’s Twitter, FaceBook or other instant gratification means. Eventually there will probably be some kind of information suppository invited by an Technorati douchebag who thinks he John Galt but until then, I prefer this.
Quick rules. Jeremy, sorry, you’re not eligible because you fixed the issue but you get something anyway for your help. Others, please post something of substance. Not a one-word thing or emoticon. Be sincere too.