Third Birthday Contest: The Winner!
The winner of this site’s Third Birthday Contest is in: It’s my fellow blogger Diana B., whose guess of 9,876 was 190 away from the correct total: This site has had 9,686 comments since its launch three years ago.
Rounding out the top 5:
- 2nd place: M Smith (286 away)
- 3rd place: Adam Wallace (314 away)
- 4th place: Nate Stainbrook (514 away)
- 5th place: Jeff Foster (814 away)
There have been 20,054 spam comments, too, which is why I made the contest specific to non-spam comments.
We’re getting closer to the 10,00o comment mark. Perhaps we should do another contest for that!


Comment by Jeff Foster (September 22, 2009, 10:08 am)
Wow! I got 5th. Not bad for a totally off the wall, pick a random number out of the air guess! LOL
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Comment by David J. Stuart (September 22, 2009, 2:13 pm)
Oops, i forgot to enter. I was gonna and it slipped my mind.
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Comment by Thomasjg (September 22, 2009, 2:26 pm)
Congrats Diana B. on the good guess!
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Comment by Amy Rogers (September 22, 2009, 4:01 pm)
If you’ll just tell us what you were going to guess, perhaps we could still declare you the winner.
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Daniel J. Mount Reply:
September 22nd, 2009 at 4:37 pm
Nice try.
But as I mentioned in the comments on the entry thread, the contest is now closed.
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Comment by Nathan Stainbrook (September 23, 2009, 4:54 pm)
Congrats to the winner…
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