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1000th Comment Contest Update

Posted on May 05, 2007 by Nate Whitehill

I am pleased to announce that GoStats will be sponsoring my 1000th Comment Contest by offering the 1000th Commentator a 2-year subscription to GoStats Pro (a $180 value). This is in addition to the other prizes, including $25 cash via PayPal, a review of your blog, and 1 hour of my graphic design services.

Who is GoStats? GoStats has been providing a reliable web traffic counter service since 1999.

Just to remind you, there are two parts and two separate winners for my 1000th Comment Contest:

Contest PART 1: Whoever posts the 1000th comment (excluding me and trackbacks) will win:

  • $25 CASH via PayPal
  • Review of your blog
  • 1 hour of my graphic design services (i.e., new header, buttons, banner, etc.)
  • 2-Year Subscription to GoStats Pro ($180 value)

    • Contest PART 2: I am going to hold a random drawing for anyone who writes a blog post about this contest. The winner will receive:

  • $25 CASH via PayPal
  • Review of your blog
  • 1 hour of my graphic design services (i.e., new header, buttons, banner, etc.)

    • There are only 4 entries for part 2 of the contest, so if you blog about the contest, your chances of winning $25 will only be 1 in 5.

    Read more information about the contest including official rules.

    Thanks to Richard at GoStats for sponsoring this contest!

    Discussion: 35 Comments

    35 Responses to “1000th Comment Contest Update”

    1. chicago web design

      - 5th May, 07 10:05pm

      Any notes as to (approximately) how many comments there currently are? :)

    2. Nate Whitehill (author comment)

      - 6th May, 07 01:05am

      I think for the sake of the contest I need to keep that a secret. :P Good luck though!

    3. Josh Buckley

      - 6th May, 07 02:05am

      Some really nice prizes there nate!

    4. I Blog - You Blog

      - 6th May, 07 03:05am

      Whatever the number of comments, I’m getting a backlink in Nate’s sidebar for being the highest commenter. That’s enough for me.

    5. DotNetNuke Consulting

      - 6th May, 07 05:05am

      Prizes are cool, gl to competitors.

    6. mike - bitbol

      - 6th May, 07 05:05am

      I can always use another stats package. There are some very tempting rewards there.

      It will be interesting to see how this all pans out. It would be nice, however, to know if we are at least close to the 1000th comment.

    7. Ali

      - 6th May, 07 11:05am

      cool contest, I need to have one of these things as well once my comments at least hit the 750 mark.

    8. Community Building Blog

      - 6th May, 07 12:05pm

      I always cringe at contests like these, as I wrote in my blog article about why.

      I do however wish you luck with it and hope you achieve your goals – time will tell if the increase in comments is sustainable after the competition.

      - Martin Reed

    9. Nate Whitehill (author comment)

      - 6th May, 07 12:05pm

      Hey Martin, thanks for the wishes. This contest is not designed to increase my comments or further my goals, just to give back to my readers and commentators a little bit. :)

    10. Scot Smith

      - 6th May, 07 01:05pm

      Hey Nate,

      Great outlook on this! It’s not about increasing comments, but about giving something back to those who contribute.

      Good luck with it!
      Scot

    11. Hannes Johnson

      - 6th May, 07 04:05pm

      Sounds cool. Contests are always fun – and add some live to a blog :)

      What are you using to find the 1000th comment?
      Because by “reverse engineering” your blog it looks like you’ve gotten over 4000 comments+trackbacks (including all the spam)…

    12. Nate Whitehill (author comment)

      - 6th May, 07 04:05pm

      I am just using the Blog Stats listed under the WP-Admin, where it says “There are currently xx posts and xx comments, contained within xx categories.” Once I hit the 1000th comment, I will just check in my WP-Admin to see who posted it. As I stated in the original contest rules, the 1000th comment can be anyone except for me or a trackback.

    13. StockTube

      - 6th May, 07 07:05pm

      the steam is picking up nate … as evil as it may sounds, people just love contest – subject to cash prize … try to throw away some thumbdrive and you’re committnig suicide …

      just wondering if the stat can be transferable? meaning as long as i do not use it can i re-use it as another contest giveaway? some of us might already have the stat counter …

      good luck everyone …

    14. Wolf Stone

      - 6th May, 07 07:05pm

      Wow…this has got to be one of the sickest prizes i have seen given away by a blog…especially the 1 hour consult. So here begins my campaign to win this magnificient prize…

    15. David Wilkinson

      - 7th May, 07 12:05am

      This is brilliant! I can’t wait to get involved… :P

      Best of luck, eh? ;)

    16. David Wilkinson

      - 7th May, 07 12:05am

      *cough* Die all you commentators – die! ;) *cough*

      lol

    17. David Wilkinson

      - 7th May, 07 12:05am

      Sweet – well I’m in. :)

    18. David Wilkinson

      - 7th May, 07 12:05am

      Yeah man – Scot’s totally right. You da man – Nate!

    19. David Wilkinson

      - 7th May, 07 12:05am

      On the contrary Martin, I absolutely LOVE these kinds of contests! :P

    20. David Wilkinson

      - 7th May, 07 12:05am

      Why don’t you go count ‘em all up? ;)

    21. David Wilkinson

      - 7th May, 07 01:05am

      I’ve got myself a nice backlink too. :)

    22. David Wilkinson

      - 7th May, 07 01:05am

      Wanna help me count, in that case? ;)

    23. Funny Video Clips

      - 7th May, 07 02:05am

      Wow…I can see you’re really keen to win this prize :)

    24. Law of Attraction

      - 7th May, 07 12:05pm

      thats a cool contest …I am in !!

    25. Wolf Stone

      - 7th May, 07 01:05pm

      Just checking back in…to see if i’ve won ??

    26. StockTube

      - 7th May, 07 06:05pm

      hello nate,

      i’ve left a comment as well as an email to your mailbox … have you received it?

      cheers …

    27. David Wilkinson

      - 7th May, 07 11:05pm

      Nope – Frank won (see the latest post). ;)

    28. David Wilkinson

      - 7th May, 07 11:05pm

      Join the club! :P

    29. JaneMay

      - 8th May, 07 02:05pm

      If only I would have gotten home a day sooner…or just had more internet connection…double darn!

    30. Nate Whitehill (author comment)

      - 9th May, 07 12:05pm

      Don’t worry, I will have plenty of more contests in the near future.

    31. Azure

      - 12th May, 07 09:05am

      wow. great idea for generating comments!

    32. Chicago 2016

      - 20th May, 07 03:05pm

      ha, i’m sure you got a lot of comments because of this one…

    33. Visitor062

      - 23rd Oct, 07 01:10am

      I could not find this site in the Search Engines index

    34. fucc

      - 5th Jan, 08 06:01am

      i’m in!
      Nice idea for a contest…I’ve also started my own own contest on my website!!! if someone wants to participate…it’s totally FREE and you can win easily $10…you just need to make a comment on my post!

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