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More Sports Blog Geekery: Top Deadspin Commenters, 2007

Jason posted 12/28/2007 from ballhype.com

On Wednesday, Rob Iracane unveiled his picks for Deadspin commenters of the year, and Camp Tiger Claw came out on top. Regular comments section readers are well aware that CTC brings the funny, but was he really the #1 commenter for 2007?

To find out, I printed out each post from 2007, divided them up among 5 monkeys, and had them count up all of the +1's, +2's, +10's, and other variations that commenters have awarded each other—you know, in lieu of comment voting. (See footnote for a few caveats.) Before we get to the final tally, here are a few other nuggets we were able to extract:

• Most points awarded in a single comment: a hundred quadrillion.
• Fewest points awarded in a comment: 0.4 (S2N), 0.7 (Skeets)
• Most plusses received from the combudsman: 3 each for Camp Tiger Claw and UkraineNotWeak
• Most generous with the plusses: Signal to Noise (61), BigTenObsession (44), Gourmet Spud (42), MrRedDevil (40), Camp Tiger Claw (39)

As you can see from the chart below, Camp Tiger Claw was in fact the top commenter by this measure, with a comfortable lead over Tuffy at #2. The rest of the top 10 follow, with some of their highest-rated contributions for your reading pleasure.

Commenter		Daps	Examples
	Camp Tiger Claw	81	Romo's athletic roots Everywhere you look, everywhere you go
	Tuffy	63	The Karate Kid: 14 years away Hartman was awesome
	Weed Against Speed	61	How the mighty have fallen Van Peezy's other handle
	UkraineNotWeak	47	What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss? The juice is loose
	Lady Andrea	29	Vigo the Carpathian = Fred Thompson Ewwww
	Phony Gwynn	25	Those bears can ball Can't we all just get along?
	Stev D	25	IT WAS JUST THAT ONE COLUMN Ha—I bench 520!
	Gourmet Spud	24	Charlie Hustlin' Rocket needs rest
	ArkansasFred	23	La Liga race watch Define combat, sir
	Rob Iracane	23	Tomorrow night, Paul O'Neill has to catch a fly ball in his hat Do as I say, not as I do

Notes:

• All plusses were counted equally: +1, +2, +1000, whatever.
• We only included plusses that were attached to @username replies, which seem to show up sometime in February.
• Only the first page of comments per post was parsed--any points awarded after #100 weren't factored in.
• Total plusses tracked: 1,860.