Yeah, I get into the same problem with comments. I can’t be clever 24/7, and sometimes all I want to say is “hey, good job, liked it”, and then I’m a flatterspammer. (To be honest, I’d be fine with flatterspam, but I fully acknowledge my patheticness.)

We get some great comments here. Some of them are much better than the posts. (I started a list but it was too long and still missed off too many people.)

This makes me feel sheepish about making lame comments myself. When I’ve read a really good post somewhere but can’t of anything to say except “This post was really good.” Then I think it’ll be taken for flatterspam. So I don’t comment often enough myself.

PZ’s comments. 🙂 Some of his commenters would have been called “lickspittles” in medieval England. He can post a two-line link to another site and get a couple of hundred comments, while the site he pointed at gets one or two.

I suspect that his students might think they’ll make sure of a decent grade by commenting. I always expect to see a comment there that says “Will this be on the test?”

My goal — to be offensive controversial enough to engender as many comments as P.Z. gets! hahahahaha