Thursday, April 19th, 2007...11:10 am
Wordpress Plugin: Comment Rankings
Gary King has created a new plugin called Comment Rankings which displays stars in a post’s comments next to a comment authors name. The stars correspond to the total number of comments the person has made. The default setting is 10 comments per star. If you hover over the star count it will also display the persons total number of comments.
To change the default star value you have to edit the plugin file and there is nothing in place to avoid a long row of stars for a prolific commentor, or in the most obvious case the blog owner. You can see in the picture below how long the row of stars can get.
This plugin is a little unrefined at the moment, but I think at the very least it’s worth keeping an eye on.
Download: Comment Rankings
12 Comments
April 19th, 2007 at 11:01 pm
New header. Looks nice.
April 20th, 2007 at 10:56 pm
How about comment ranking in blogspot?
April 21st, 2007 at 12:28 am
[...] searching for ‘comment rankings’ on Google now - but it’s not my site, it’s this site. Props to him for being the #1 search result for that phrase, while my site isn’t even on the [...]
April 21st, 2007 at 12:40 am
This looks good . Will try it soon .
April 21st, 2007 at 2:34 am
We recently put the Spotback.com widgets on our site. It’s really cool, as well as rating comments, it also gives you a top commenters sidebar with personal recommendations. You can see it on my site.
April 21st, 2007 at 7:43 am
mr. bink - I’m not too familiar with blogspot, but I don’t think it has the same kind of plugin support that Wordpress has.
Charbarred - I’m going to check it out now. Thanks for the tip.
April 21st, 2007 at 12:24 pm
I was going to ask about limits…in a few months you may have 18 rows of starts after your name. I like you and all, but I won’t like scrolling past rows of stars to find out that you said thanks.
Also, it may create unwanted behavior. For example, I am making a general comment here, but say I want to say something to Charbarred, instead of skipping a few lines and addressing him, I would make a new comment.
This is what happened basically with coComment. I was at the top by a long shot. A person who was 800 or so comments behind me, he passed me within 2 or 3 days. How? By addressing everybody else’s comments also, usually separately.
April 23rd, 2007 at 7:26 pm
Interesting alternative to Top Commentators. You must comment on your own blog alot, Dan. =P
April 29th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
Wanted to compliment on your site, it looks really good .
Hank
May 21st, 2007 at 12:27 am
Hmm… It would be better if we get the number of comments when we hover over the name instead of having the starts. That’s just my humble opinion
May 21st, 2007 at 12:27 am
Ouch! I meant *stars
July 11th, 2007 at 5:22 am
@Shankar Ganesh
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/featuring-countcomments/
Unlike the author said, it’s work with guest comment too!
See my comment on bloggingtips.com
http://www.bloggingtips.com/2007/06/27/display-the-total-number-of-comments-your-readers-have-left/#comment-2819
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