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	<description>Standing in the Gap in a Society that&#039;s Warring with God.</description>
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		<title>By: MInTheGap</title>
		<link>http://www.minthegap.com/2007/01/09/the-comment-wars/comment-page-1/#comment-25891</link>
		<dc:creator>MInTheGap</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nah, not more commenters from you, Mary.  You did a very well-- I&#039;m trying to encourage the others!

I think the &quot;ruler&quot; that Ann is referring to is on the main blog page (with all the posts instead of the single post).  It&#039;s right above the first post and lets you move a slider from right to left.  You could also navigate to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.minthegap.com/category/uncategorized/&quot;&gt;http://www.minthegap.com/category/uncategorized/&lt;/a&gt; and that would show you the uncategorized like you were used to seeing them, I assume.</description>
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Nah, not more commenters from you, Mary.  You did a very well&#8211; I&#8217;m trying to encourage the others!</p>
<p>I think the &#8220;ruler&#8221; that Ann is referring to is on the main blog page (with all the posts instead of the single post).  It&#8217;s right above the first post and lets you move a slider from right to left.  You could also navigate to <a href="http://www.minthegap.com/category/uncategorized/">http://www.minthegap.com/category/uncategorized/</a> and that would show you the uncategorized like you were used to seeing them, I assume.</p>
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		<title>By: Mary</title>
		<link>http://www.minthegap.com/2007/01/09/the-comment-wars/comment-page-1/#comment-25899</link>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wow, there it is, clear as can be. I&#039;m used to coming here directly from my site feed of your blog...clicking on certain posts. Guess that&#039;s why I&#039;ve not seen it before!

Thanks!</description>
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Wow, there it is, clear as can be. I&#8217;m used to coming here directly from my site feed of your blog&#8230;clicking on certain posts. Guess that&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve not seen it before!</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
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		<title>By: Mary</title>
		<link>http://www.minthegap.com/2007/01/09/the-comment-wars/comment-page-1/#comment-25882</link>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2007 20:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey, Stephen, thanks for the invite, I&#039;ll have to stop by soon. :O)

Forgive me Ann, for making you post another comment :O) but what ruler? TIA.

MIn, what? Looking for more commenters by way of me? I&#039;ll have to dig deeper! Btw, just as an introduction, Jana is my best friend who lives way up north...she&#039;s an awesome lady of God with a heart for foster care and a FULL house at the moment with 6 living there and one away at college...Rhonda is my new crit partner on this fiction writing journey I find myself on...and Beth is her friend who came here at Rhonda&#039;s request for me. Sweet, huh. Gina is another good friend I made from the American Christian Fiction Writer&#039;s website...she owns the Writer...Interrupted webring at which I occasionally post! Amy...I&#039;m not sure how I know Amy. I&#039;m suspecting that Rhonda sent her here for me as well. I&#039;ll have to ask!</description>
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Hey, Stephen, thanks for the invite, I&#8217;ll have to stop by soon. :O)</p>
<p>Forgive me Ann, for making you post another comment :O) but what ruler? TIA.</p>
<p>MIn, what? Looking for more commenters by way of me? I&#8217;ll have to dig deeper! Btw, just as an introduction, Jana is my best friend who lives way up north&#8230;she&#8217;s an awesome lady of God with a heart for foster care and a FULL house at the moment with 6 living there and one away at college&#8230;Rhonda is my new crit partner on this fiction writing journey I find myself on&#8230;and Beth is her friend who came here at Rhonda&#8217;s request for me. Sweet, huh. Gina is another good friend I made from the American Christian Fiction Writer&#8217;s website&#8230;she owns the Writer&#8230;Interrupted webring at which I occasionally post! Amy&#8230;I&#8217;m not sure how I know Amy. I&#8217;m suspecting that Rhonda sent her here for me as well. I&#8217;ll have to ask!</p>
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		<title>By: Stephen Kingston</title>
		<link>http://www.minthegap.com/2007/01/09/the-comment-wars/comment-page-1/#comment-25781</link>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Kingston</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You are now the all time top commentator on my blog. When the all time numbers start to creep up to about 50 posts or so, I&#039;ll change it to monthly. Unfortunately if I set it to monthly now, I don&#039;t get a top 5 commentators - only a top 4!</description>
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You are now the all time top commentator on my blog. When the all time numbers start to creep up to about 50 posts or so, I&#8217;ll change it to monthly. Unfortunately if I set it to monthly now, I don&#8217;t get a top 5 commentators &#8211; only a top 4!</p>
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		<title>By: MInTheGap</title>
		<link>http://www.minthegap.com/2007/01/09/the-comment-wars/comment-page-1/#comment-25712</link>
		<dc:creator>MInTheGap</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Stephen, I think I returned the favor-- and reign #1.  What&#039;s the time scale for your comments?

Mary, yes you are keeping me busy.  I&#039;m still looking for more commenters! I though it was a little tacky to have so many uncategorized posts, and taking that category away means that as I get to them, they are appropriately filed.

Ann-- that&#039;s slick.  I was wondering how you were still finding old posts to post on.  I can tell you guys are going to have fun when the adventure begins. :)</description>
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Stephen, I think I returned the favor&#8211; and reign #1.  What&#8217;s the time scale for your comments?</p>
<p>Mary, yes you are keeping me busy.  I&#8217;m still looking for more commenters! I though it was a little tacky to have so many uncategorized posts, and taking that category away means that as I get to them, they are appropriately filed.</p>
<p>Ann&#8211; that&#8217;s slick.  I was wondering how you were still finding old posts to post on.  I can tell you guys are going to have fun when the adventure begins. <img src='http://www.minthegap.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: ann_in_grace</title>
		<link>http://www.minthegap.com/2007/01/09/the-comment-wars/comment-page-1/#comment-25696</link>
		<dc:creator>ann_in_grace</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mary, just draw the ruler up on the main page, to chose a fairly old page of the blog. There are many treasures there, in the beginning, sitting there like orphans, no comments at all :)</description>
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Mary, just draw the ruler up on the main page, to chose a fairly old page of the blog. There are many treasures there, in the beginning, sitting there like orphans, no comments at all <img src='http://www.minthegap.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Mary</title>
		<link>http://www.minthegap.com/2007/01/09/the-comment-wars/comment-page-1/#comment-25685</link>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2007 22:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is catching on, MIn. I bet we&#039;re keeping you pretty busy, moderating all these new commentors (that Rebecca and I are bringing to the blog...)...juggling the comment war winners back and forth...and btw, where did your uncategorized posts disappear to?</description>
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This is catching on, MIn. I bet we&#8217;re keeping you pretty busy, moderating all these new commentors (that Rebecca and I are bringing to the blog&#8230;)&#8230;juggling the comment war winners back and forth&#8230;and btw, where did your uncategorized posts disappear to?</p>
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		<title>By: Stephen Kingston</title>
		<link>http://www.minthegap.com/2007/01/09/the-comment-wars/comment-page-1/#comment-25678</link>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Kingston</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yes indeed.

Hey, I have added a top 5 commentators to my blog if anyone wants to start a war there too :)</description>
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Yes indeed.</p>
<p>Hey, I have added a top 5 commentators to my blog if anyone wants to start a war there too <img src='http://www.minthegap.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: flashnolan</title>
		<link>http://www.minthegap.com/2007/01/09/the-comment-wars/comment-page-1/#comment-25665</link>
		<dc:creator>flashnolan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So this comment should be good for 29 more days! :)</description>
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So this comment should be good for 29 more days! <img src='http://www.minthegap.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: MInTheGap</title>
		<link>http://www.minthegap.com/2007/01/09/the-comment-wars/comment-page-1/#comment-25310</link>
		<dc:creator>MInTheGap</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 13:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Right, Stephen, the only comments that are counted are the last 30 days of them.  I think what Mary&#039;s trying to say is that if you go comment crazy all in one day, 30 days from now those will disappear and it&#039;ll be a huge drop.

Now, if you&#039;re a consistent commenter, then you don&#039;t have much to fear, because the number you lose in a day will be roughly what you do in a day.  BUT if you&#039;re in the habit of posting sporadically with a ton of posts, that one day 30 days from now can be a big one-- just to maintain the position you have!

In any case, there&#039;s definitely an advantage to being on top-- you regulars know that this site is laid out in a special way for the top two-- and you are prominently displayed!</description>
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Right, Stephen, the only comments that are counted are the last 30 days of them.  I think what Mary&#8217;s trying to say is that if you go comment crazy all in one day, 30 days from now those will disappear and it&#8217;ll be a huge drop.</p>
<p>Now, if you&#8217;re a consistent commenter, then you don&#8217;t have much to fear, because the number you lose in a day will be roughly what you do in a day.  BUT if you&#8217;re in the habit of posting sporadically with a ton of posts, that one day 30 days from now can be a big one&#8211; just to maintain the position you have!</p>
<p>In any case, there&#8217;s definitely an advantage to being on top&#8211; you regulars know that this site is laid out in a special way for the top two&#8211; and you are prominently displayed!</p>
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