Comment Commitment August

Most of you have no idea what that title means, I am aware. I'll do a little 'splainin before I go on.

@galenkp made a PUBLIC commitment to finish the year with at least 32,500 comments to his credit. He started on August 11 with 26,649 so needs 5,851 more comments by the end of the year.

In a moment of weakness, make that in a moment of extreme weakness, I agreed to join him on his journey. You all know I've been married 3 times and have a serious commitment deficit in my personal life.

I started with 7850 comments and owing to a small mathematical error I committed to doing 2250 comments by the end of the year for a nice round total of 10,100. Yes, I blew it in the old 'carry one' category. Mrs. Deife, my 6th grade teacher would be mortified.

I sat here and figured based on 5.5 months which amounts to about 410 per month to make my goal. That's 100 per week or 15 per day with a few extra on Fridays.

Turns out the actual was 142 days remaining in the year or 16 per day with no additional needed on Friday.

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So, how do I stand on the challenge?

Here's where I am mid day August 31. I have 8,376 comments made. I started at 7,850 for a net 526 for the short month of August.

I have made 526 comments since the 11th of August, an average of 25 per day. I am nicely ahead of my foolish commitment to the GDog so don't have near so much commitment fear right now.

In fact, an honorable man might consider upping the ante, committing to another 500 comments or something foolish like that. I have no honor, so I'll stick with my commitment of 2250 and settle for finishing up my commitment early rather than extend myself.

It's a really good thing that @galenkp has cooked up, particularly when compared to his normal crackpot ideas. I could go on with how it will help me greatly and do much to foster engagement with the community but GDog already did that in his original post which you can can find right here.

So why don't you take a swing at this? You could do as I have, pick some low ball number that you KNOW you can make with ease, or do like GDog and make a ridiculous commitment. The choice is yours, and you can leave your commitment in the comments section, and count it as your first effort toward your goal!

Then just a simple post at the end of each month to share how you are doing and you are set. Make sue you use #comment-commitment as one tag and you are well on the path to glory and riches.

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