It’s the time of the month that I get to announce my top commentator and February month seems different. Having the least number of days in a month did not stop it to garner the most comments. 102 comments were received just from my 3 top commentators out of a total of 152 comments from my top 10 commentators.

I may have mentioned before but good to point out again Jakob Nielsen’s study did revealed that 90% of online community users are lurkers, meaning they read but never comment, while only 9% contribute just a ‘little’ and 1% contribute actively.So here’s a big thank-you to my active contributors and commenters for leading by example.

For those of you who may be new to my home business blog, as a small gesture of my appreciation, the Top Commentator for each month will be recognized and rewarded with a free one-month 125×125 ad banner on this blog.

Like I said February month seems different too as never before seen in my work at home blog. I woke up today expecting to start the usual lazy Sunday morning, perhaps spending lunch with family and then try to write this Top Commentator post. No instead I woke up to witness some fierce battle going on between my top 2 commentators trying to outwit, out post, out comment each other to win Feb month’s coveted TC award. They had too as each of them was at par in the number of comments posted for the month. It’s a matter of who gets the final one or two more comments before the TC number gets a fresh reset for March within a few hours.

Hey they both made me work harder than my day job in the bank and probably forgot that Sunday is a day of rest huh. Hard work for me because  I had to keep up with them and approve each comment as they posted so as to let them know almost in real time their latest score. At one stage I felt like I was testing this TC plugin making sure that the incremental number appears against their names. When the plugin finally resetted to zero, I was spent, relieved, tired, happy it ended. So who won?

This Top Commentator for the month of February goes to …(drumroll) Luis Torres of Marketing Business Review while Ben gracefully bowed out. As you might know, Ben was also the top commentator here for December and January.  Well Ben I like to see you become the top commentator again this month and Luis, you’re now accorded the rank of ‘Boomerang Commentator’ coined by Sire, another TC on this blog. Did you guys like the competition. Well Luis did and had this to say:

“Hope you don’t mind too much about this comment competition, but it seems, Mr. Ben still wants to win your TC recognition. But I am glad I am doing all this reading into your blog, I have found so much ideas in just a few hours. Now I have a lot of homework to do, lol” - Luis

Now what do the rest of the Commentators get as a reward? You’ll get link love from yours truly of course as a gesture of my appreciation to you for supporting and contributing your thoughts on this home business blog.

Top 10 Commentators

• Marketing Business Review (40)
• Make Money Online (37)
• joe comp (25)
• Sire (11)
• Dennis Edell (9)
• Rahul Jadhav (8)
• affiliate.solutions (6)
• The Blogger Source (6)
• Asher Awesome (5)
• khaled (5

Luis as my top commentator, please provide me your banner details for me to upload it here.

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Did you miss any of these?:

• Top Commentator-April 2009
• Top Commentator-March 2009
• Top Commentator-December 2008
• Readers’ Appreciation-October 2008
• Top Commentator-November 2008