The 12 most commented lessons

the total number of lesson comments is now over 21,000 which works out to about 30 for each lesson on average!

And you have to factor in that all old zh-comments are gone.

taking the above into account, here's the list of the top 24 contributors -- lessons only, approximate numbers (*) : 1. 1018 ChinesePod 2. 1007 Bazza 3. 623 jenny zhu 4. 613 Lantian 5. 559 amber 6. 461 changye 7. 402 henning 8. 318 john 9. 259 goulniky 10. 245 Man2Toe 11. 242 Rich 12. 221 Mike in Jubei 13. 192 excuter 14. 185 AZERDocMom 15. 171 franch 16. 169 dave 17. 155 Connie 18. 154 Kyle 19. 146 wildyaks 20. 141 Bob Mrotek 21. 135 David 22. 118 xiaohahaha 23. 114 maxiewawa 24. 112 Eileen (*) aside from the fact that they change all the time, it takes some tweaking as pre version 2 comments are locked and quite a few people changed userID, e.g. Bazza / Bazza 吴白锐 / Bazza 白锐 jenny / Jenny / jenny zhu / Jenny Zhu / jenny zhu 朱琦 / jennyzq

it feels like talking to myself here :-) anyway, that won't stop me or my crawler... just to let everyone know some of the numbers above are underestimates. But we're close to 3500 different users having contributed to lesson comments.

Goulniky, we are not gone. We are just lurking ;) Interesting figures, indeed. Next indicators: User who a) contributed the most Hanzi, a) used the highest absolute number of different Hanzi and c) reach the highest statistical variance in their Hanzi usage. After that we need to look at words and Chengyus... [开玩笑而已]

I guess for c) we need the information entropy.