There are blogs which have some really great interaction. In a way, some blogs that have specific topics could be quite hot, in terms of discussions. They become some sort of forums already and there are some very active commenters. If you would like to keep tabs on who are the top commenters on your blog, use the Top Commenters widget.

Nice things about this widget:

• You could configure the number of people to show.
  Maybe you’d like to have the top 10 commenters. Or maybe just five. That would be one of the things you would have to specify on the widget admin interface.
• You could exclude some names.
  Your name might be the one with the most counts, right? Especially if you have been answering almost every comment on your blog. It would be quite obvious that you will be one of the top commenters then. If you have a group blog, you might want to exclude the names of the members of your group blog, for the same obvious reasons.
• This widget has already been tested on WordPress 2.x and recent versions of WordPress MU.

Top Commenters and blogging

The nice thing about blogging is that you have different kinds of information available in one place. Sometimes it is the commenters that help steer discussions in certain directions. Knowing who the top commenters are could help you in gauging who might be the most influential people are in terms of the topics of conversations on your blogs. You might have some experts on your blog’s topic

Maybe it would appear more like a forum if you have this widget but I think that this is nice because it also points out who are the ones who are active on the discussions aside from the blogger/s maintaining the blog.

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