Here ya go, I told ya this was coming too and I’m a man of my word! Heh.

Just to recap, I held the first comment contest in January, killed it in February; wrote about a new comment policy, and am now bringing it back for March and hopefully beyond.

Hopefully beyond? Yep. You see, January was sorta an unofficial behind the scenes test, and some failed…miserably. It seems a few normally awesome commenters really ramped up the crap for contest purposes. No offense, it’s true.

Hence the need for the newly updated and strictly enforced comment policy, neatly linked in big fat letters right above the comment box. I really really hope we can continue them monthly, don’t you? Just having sponsorships has already taken them farther then any other comment contest I’ve seen so far. And, as I’ve said a couple times, if we do continue on a regular basis, I may have a HUGE announcement to make.

This is a 2-part post. Please read thoroughly.

Part 1: January Winners!

OK as I mentioned several times, I cut off the contest around 10pm when I logged off. As I feared, it does simply reset with no tracking thereafter. In the future, I may use a database trick that Nick showed me, modifying a query showed here.  This should return an accurate count right up to midnight…in case anyone slips in .

I say may because messing with databases, querys, SQL, and all that nifty jazz is never on top of my to-do lists. LOL

Anyhoo without further ado (does anyone really know how to spell that??)…

Top Commenters!
1. Nick (42)
2. Sherry (Broken link) (41)
3. Ben Pei (38)
4. Mitch (27)
5. Sire (23)
6. Matty Byloos (22)
7. Shirley (21)
8. Commentluv (Yan) (19)
9. Mirjam (19)
10. Donny Gamble (12)

What?!?! You’re not interested in $100 CASH or a TON of prizes??

OK today’s post is not JUST a brag post about reaching the 200 mark (small dance, woohoo!) but a lesson for all, including myself.

You may recall the happy dance we did together when I hit the 100 subscriber mark on November 5th 2008. This post may be a wee late, but I first noticed 202 subscribers on January 7th, this year.

If you really want to break it down, that’s approximately 12 subs per week…not to shabby, eh? Although I never really looked that closely. What’s my secret formula? Well, unless you live in a bubble I really shouldn’t have to tell you, but I will .