You did it! Earlier today, somebody on Scienceblogs.com posted the 500,000th comment. It will take a few days for our Seed Overlords to check the counter, contact the winners and make the big announcement. In the meantime, as PZ says, You are encouraged to go on commenting to run the tally up to a million.
And, you can enjoy a randomly rotating selection of cool comments on the Scienceblogs.com front page. I know, I know, nobody ever asked me to fertilize their eggs (not that Mrs.Coturnix would approve), but one of the rotating comments is the historical one here:
PLoS is quite proud of it - you can see this screenshot was already posted in the photo album of the PLoS Facebook group.
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Threaded comments have advantages but they also have disadvantages. I won't mention the disadvantages because if you don't know what they are already than they aren't disadvantages to you.
For the past few weeks, I have allowed commenters to post using their TypeKey account. I didn't want to require commenters to register with TypeKey if they did not want to, so I still allowed comments from unregistered readers.
Thanks to everyone who participated in the unscientific survey on commenting. The results are back, and I'd like to share them with you.
There have been quite a few posts over the last few days about commenting, in particular about posting comments, notes and ratings on scientific papers. But this also related to commenting on blogs and social networks, commenting on newspaper online articles, the question of moderation vs.