The Strange Affair of the On/Off Comments on Nick Robinson’s Newslog
I probably missed this, but I can’t find a reference.
Why does Nick Robinson’s Newslog never have any comments in the first half of the month?
This applies to April, May, June and July this year.
Nick’s posts in the second half of each month get hundreds of comments, but none at all in the first half of the month.
What is going on?
Hokey-Cokey Comments
These are the dates of posts and the numbers of comments in June:
- 2/6/2008 0 comments
- 3/6/2008 0 comments
- 4/6/2008 0 comments
- 5/6/2008 0 comments
- 6/6/2008 0 comments
- 10/6/2008 0 comments
- 12/6/2008 0 comments
- 13/6/2008 0 comments
- 16/6/2008 10.28am 0 comments
- 16/6/2008 01.46am 107 comments
- 17/6/2008 229 comments
- 18/6/2008 194 comments
- 19/6/2008 160 comments
- 23/6/2008 207 comments
- 24/6/2008 141 comments
- 25/6/2008 132 comments
- 27/6/2008 84 comments
- 27/6/2008 109 comments
- 30/6/2008 164 comments
July has a similar pattern - no comments at all until the 16th July, then BANG:
- 16/7/2008 173 comments
- 18/7/2008 347 comments
- 21/7/2008 124 comments
- 22/7/2008 340 comments
- 25/7/2008 191 comments
- 25/7/2008 125 comments
- 26/7/2008 478 comments
- 29/7/2008 215 comments
- 30/7/2008 453 comments
- 31/7/2008 831 comments
Coming into August, Nick has gone on holiday:
- 1/7/2008 325 comments
Into the Past
Going backwards, May has nothing up until the 15th, then the post on the 16th has 149 comments.
Meanwhile April has nothing up until at least the 18th April, then lots of comments on all the posts.
Wrapping Up
What on EARTH is going on?
Categories: All WW, Comment, Geek in Politics, Internet / Technical, Media, Miscellaneous
Update - The comments are there, but the counter is showing zero. Glitch/bug.
Update 2: It looks as if the comments numbers are showing correctly in the first 10 posts on the page.