Yesterday's GameDay Thread for Haiti got 3,191 comments before 11:59 p.m. PST, meaning that we're...

Yesterday's GameDay Thread for Haiti got 3,191 comments before 11:59 p.m. PST, meaning that we're sending $159.55 to the Red Cross for Haitian earthquake relief. A lot of different people were a huge part of it, and thanks to everyone who joined in!

(The game review will be up later this afternoon)

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Whoa

That’s an incredible total.

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by DarrenM on Jan 17, 2010 12:21 PM EST reply actions

and that’s including 50+ mins of the site being down!

I am AWESOME! Are you?

by Manthong on Jan 17, 2010 12:26 PM EST up reply actions

That was prime commenting time, too.

Very cool thing that you folks did, and it was fun to be a part of it.

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by Baroque on Jan 17, 2010 1:51 PM EST up reply actions

Holy crap

We’ve found on LL that you probably need to put new threads up after 1,000 posts or so. Otherwise people’s computers start to die.

by Graham MacAree on Jan 17, 2010 12:24 PM EST reply actions

Yeah

putting up new threads probably would’ve been wise, but it’s great seeing a thread with that many posts, heh.

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by DarrenM on Jan 17, 2010 12:29 PM EST up reply actions

well...

If you didn’t have such an enormous thread before, how were you to know? :)

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by Baroque on Jan 17, 2010 1:52 PM EST up reply actions

well, now you know for the next time you get high traffic.

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by missy on Jan 17, 2010 4:08 PM EST up reply actions

but you didn’t believe me. WHY didn’t you believe me?!?! haha. In all seriousness, I’d seen that slowdown before in football threads, and I thought I’d reiterate the warning someone issued on the SBN group.

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by Arthur from Anaheim Calling on Jan 17, 2010 4:55 PM EST up reply actions

told you so nickel

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by Arthur from Anaheim Calling on Jan 17, 2010 5:03 PM EST up reply actions

yeah … that’s what happened to me … I had to give up after trying a few times … but I still got a bunch of comments in :)

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by ang6666 on Jan 18, 2010 2:06 AM EST up reply actions

Sorry it didn't work out!

We did think of splitting the threads, but I really wanted to keep all the comments under the one thread, just so it’d be easy to see them add up. But if we do something like this again, we’ll probably have to split the thread.

Thanks for coming by and helping us out, though!

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by Peter Raaymakers on Jan 18, 2010 10:27 AM EST up reply actions

It was a ton of fun! Can you do any sort of leaderboard for comments or anything? Most common words used? I WANT GRAPHS DAMMIT

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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Jan 17, 2010 3:05 PM EST reply actions

Graphs Rule!

and so do you!

I am AWESOME! Are you?

by Manthong on Jan 17, 2010 3:16 PM EST up reply actions

Protein.

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by Ryan Classic on Jan 17, 2010 4:44 PM EST up reply actions

pseudo-nickel

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by eightyseven on Jan 17, 2010 4:58 PM EST up reply actions

I've got the top ten, anyway!

Name, # of comments (donation equivalent)
Ryan Classic, 440 ($22)
Fehr and Balanced, 342 ($17.10)
Whiter Mage, 290 ($14.50)
Cornelius Hardenbergh, 236 ($11.80)
PeterR, 220 ($11)
eightyseven, 217 ($10.85)
missy, 178 ($8.90)
Ovechwin, 177 ($8.85)
Arthur from Anaheim Calling, 160 ($8.00)
Mark Parisi, 146 ($7.30)

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by Peter Raaymakers on Jan 17, 2010 5:51 PM EST up reply actions

Nice

Cornelius and I together could buy two large pizzas for Haiti. Or for us.

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by Ryan Classic on Jan 17, 2010 6:00 PM EST up reply actions

I suggest both.

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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Jan 17, 2010 6:17 PM EST up reply actions

p.s. I’m matching my comment’s contributions.

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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Jan 17, 2010 6:17 PM EST up reply actions

NICE! That's great to hear, the more the better.

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by Peter Raaymakers on Jan 17, 2010 6:27 PM EST up reply actions

i think all my random nickel and element comments added to my total :P

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by missy on Jan 17, 2010 6:30 PM EST up reply actions

I'm pretty sure they did!

Nickel was, if I had to guess, the most commonly-used word throughout the post.

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by Peter Raaymakers on Jan 17, 2010 6:35 PM EST up reply actions

I'm going to go with 'the'

or I.

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by Ryan Classic on Jan 17, 2010 6:41 PM EST up reply actions

psht.

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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Jan 17, 2010 6:44 PM EST up reply actions

It should have been jizz.

Matt Bradley is my fµcking hero, I mean he was before, but now he’s like double or something.

by Ovechwin on Jan 17, 2010 7:11 PM EST up reply actions

Japers’ Rink freaking Represent.

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by Whiter Mage on Jan 17, 2010 8:37 PM EST up reply actions

lots of fun, good job everyone.
it’s amazing how well we did, especially considering that incredibly annoying 50 minute SBNation crash. during that time, i was just hoping we hadn’t actually crashed it ourselves by putting too many comments at once on a single thread…….
it would be interesting to see the numbers for how many times people commented (i’ve seen it done before, so i know it’s possible).

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by missy on Jan 17, 2010 3:48 PM EST reply actions

Unfortunately, mine was one of the computers that couldn’t handle the volume. Even after the server came back up I just got stalled anytime I tried to go back in and add some more commentary. I expect the goal of 4000 comments might well have been achieved other than those technical issues.

Congrats to the crew of Silver Seven for a job well done. Nice win for your boys, too!

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by Bruce McCurdy on Jan 17, 2010 4:38 PM EST reply actions

Congratulations on the big numbers, guys. Glad I was able to help a good cause.

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by Whiter Mage on Jan 17, 2010 8:37 PM EST reply actions

Again very cool of you guys to do this … :)

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by ang6666 on Jan 18, 2010 2:08 AM EST reply actions