Not so long ago we did a list on the Top 10 Most Commented On Lists. It was a moderately popular list (as all our meta lists are) which starred as its top item the Top 10 Stephen King Books at 240 comments. I am pleased to say that that list is now only 9th on our list of the most commented. It seemed appropriate to revisit this topic after Christmas – especially as we move in to our second 6 months of existence as a site! So, here are our overall top 10 most commented on lists to date.
10. Top 10 Most Evil Men
Total Comments: 239
This is an interesting one – on the previous list of most popular comments, the Top 10 Most Evil Women ranked as number 3 with 184 comments. Now it is no where to be seen while the evil men have made an appearance. As you can probably imagine, George Bush Junior made an appearance in the comments and that is always guaranteed to incite a riot. And a riot we had! Loose_Cannon, Bucslim, and Frank had a rather excited debate about 9/11, Bush, and someone called Dick Cheney (I don’t know who he is). Fun reading – be sure to check it out! Oh – and whether you like it or not, Josef Stalin is still number 1 on the list!
9. Your View: What is the Most Influential Movie?
Total Comments: 239
So far we have only had 7 Your View posts and this one is number 5. It sparked a great deal of interest in our readers (probably because they all seem to be film experts in one way or another). I am not sure that we really came to a conclusion on which was the best, but I think Citizen Kane came close (luckily it was my pick!) If you are sitting at home and wondering what movies to download, check out the comments on this list. I am pretty sure ThePirateBay can accommodate everyone!
8. Top 15 Stephen King Books
Total Comments: 256
This is the only list which has made both the original and this list of top commented lists. Clearly Stephen King is an author with a large following on the List Universe. In fact, not only was this list on the first list of most commented, it was the number one list! No doubt it was helped along a little by the competition which awarded a book to every 100 commenters, but the quality of the list and the love of a good scare helped it along.
7. Top 10 Discontinued Sodas
Total Comments: 258
How could this list not do well? Who doesn’t like a good soda on a hot summer day? Fortunately we have a lot of readers who remember the 80s – and many of these defunct sodas were a big feature of that flamboyant era. Our only mistake? Leaving off Pepsi Blue. Thanks to StewWriter for this list which ultimately turned out to be his swan song!
6. Top 20 Beers
Total Comments: 274
I don’t like beer. I have not made any effort to conceal the fact. If I want to stuff my face with bitter tasting drinks/food, I will eat dandelions. Beer is inferior to Cocktails so I will restrict myself to cocktail lists (as I have done so far). Having said that, beer is a very popular drink and this list really incited some rage. This was the first time I had to turn instant comments off and put everyone in to the moderation queue – just to keep the site up. This list hit the front page of Fark which meant we got an immense amount of traffic in a very short time. I love people’s comments so I was very sad to have to disable commenting – but at least all of your views were aired the next morning when the worst of it was over.
5. Your View: What is the Best Rock Album
Total Comments: 291
I must confess – I planned this “Your View” knowing how sensitive people were on the site to rock music. I just knew it would cause a stir – and it did! On our first list of top commented lists, the Beatles list featured prominently (position 2 in fact) – because of a fight regarding the Beatles versus Led Zeppelin – I knew that this might occur again and I was not disappointed! Your View has now taken two top spots on this list – it is not going to go away!
4. Top 16 Awesome Fast Food Restaurants
Total Comments: 328
Okay – so we are all spending a lot of time on the net. For many of us that means no time for cooking. The solution? Fast Food! It can not come as a surprise to any of us that a list about fast food joints is going to be popular. Even those of us that have never heard of many of these places loved the list because this is food that sums up our innermost desires – quick, easy, cheap, and tasty! Fortunately we balance things out with real food lists but frankly, you can not beat a Big Mac. Congrats to BrotherMan for such a popular list!
3. Your View: What is the Best Movie?
Total Comments: 390
This was the first of our new “Your View” series – where we ask the readers (that means you!) to tell us what you think, instead of you simply taking our word. Obviously this was a popular choice of topic because we have so many intelligent film buffs that really know their stuff who read our lists. As I mentioned earlier, it is very hard to make a final decision on which film won out, but I will do so anyway! The best movie, according to you is The Godfather. Good choice – it was my pick too!
2. Top 20 Geek Movies of All Time
Total Comments: 574
So – frankly most of us are geeks – if we weren’t we wouldn’t be glued to our monitors every day reading the latest comment on the List Universe. This list had to be a winner, and, indeed, it was. These are the films that inspired us and ultimately led us to jobs in the “geek” industries – whether it be regular geek (read IT developers) or artistic geek (read designers). Granted, the list awarded a prize to every 100th commenter, but this is a topic that means so much to all of us that this list would have featured here regardless.
1. Top 10 Bizarre Biblical Tales
Total Comments: 1,165
You did not read that wrong – this list has reached over one thousand one hundred comments! This is virtually a miracle – not even Digg, Fark, and Reddit get that many comments on their posts! And believe it or not, despite the controversial nature of the topic, most of the comments were fair and polite. We had barely any personal attacks and I am certain that every person reading this list learnt at least one thing from the “opposing” team. Congratulations to the List Universe readers for being so open minded and generous with their comments! I am truly impressed (yet again).
Afterword
This site has done well in the popularity stakes, not because of my writing, but because of your well reasoned and intelligent comments. The 10 lists above represent 4,014 (four thousand and fourteen) comments. That is an astounding number of well thought out comments. To celebrate, I have made a new tee-shirt for the site which you can see above. If you want to buy one of these shirts, visit the List Universe Online Store. If you think you might prefer something else, we have heaps of great gear in the store so check it out anyway! All proceeds go to the upkeep of the site. Thank you all for your great comments and brilliant attitude!
first!
The photo for the top geek movie (#2 on this list) — Perfect!
Jamie, Thanks for a great day!
I LOVE the new shirt,
now if only i wasn’t broke thanks to the top 16 fast food list.
I love reading the comments just as much as I love reading the lists!!
I think I would break if I didn’t have the internet!!
haha!! That shirt rocks!! =D
Yay for happy lists. I love this site. And I love you guys!
-Andrea Carlena Beauman
stevenh: you are more than welcome! And thank YOU for making my day with such a great comment
Juggz: self restraint – it is something we don’t advocate here – so just take pleasure in your burgers!
Ahsley: once I didn’t have the internet – I nearly had to be put in to a strait jacket
Hannah: in a most unbiased way, I agree with you
Andrea Carlena Beauman: we love you too!
Ah yes. Feel the love!
-Andrea Carlena Beauman
This site just keeps getting better and better!!! Long live Listverse!!! Thanks Jamie!
nice! I make way more money than I deserve each year and get a bonus that is embarassing…the least can do is spend some of it here. Do you have a personal shopper service??
need that on a mug and a bag too!
cool! glad the site is doing so well. stop detracting from my college grads by being interesting! argh! hehe
come on people, keep posting here, for the third most comented list, this one needs to be one it, maybe even beating the bible list?
i gotta say, i love this site. every list at least makes me think.
and the comments are usually humorous, entertaining, and polite.
Thanks, Jamie!
haha great list, but i knew the Bible list would be first, i mean over 1,000 comments thats incredible
Jfrater: Love the shirt and the pic of #2! I almost died laughing!
Okay see that shirt is exactly what I was talking about with something better coming along. I think I need that. Is the logo on the back?
Awesome site! I really enjoy reading and posting comments. I also have read every one of those comments on the top 1,2,4, and 6 lists. That is 2,341 comments I have read! Just from the lists mentioned here.
I want one of those shirt….it would be my new favorite shirt most definatly
I prefer isohunt.
so it would appear that most of these lists are recent ones suggesting lots more traffic, duh. presumably, if growth continues, most of these will be of this list soon. the question is, will the bizarre bible stories EVER be topped?
WE NEED TO MAKE THIS THE MOST COMMENTED ON LIST!!!!!! MY KEYBOARD IS STUCK ON CAPS LOCK. Not really, I just thought it would be funny to add.
LOL I think I need that shirt for the next time I go play trivia.
Here’s to a lot more lists and even MORE comments!
I must say, I am really impressed with a lot of the comments on this site. The comments are (for the most part) intelligent as opposed to the posts I’m used to reading. It just goes to show that the people who visit this site are in fact smart people! Finally! I think we all should get one of those t-shirts.
JwJwBean: The logo isn’t on the back – I can put it there if people want it though
Commenting on comments….from the department of redundancy department…
It IS a cool shirt though…..
redundant, maybe ,but i notice in the recent comments section of the page that people are going and checking on some of these lists. seems they dont all use the list list(list archive)apparently a useful tool for new visitors.
i need to add that i mean useful an in the most popular, controversial,or just plane fun , some of the topics have been.
swampsnake: I agree! I did try to make it more prominent in the toolbar – perhaps I need something more.
Maybe name it List Archives. Or Archives. Then people might understand it is all of the other lists.
HAHA. That’s very amusing that you don’t know who ol’ Dickey is. He’s the vice president.
Could I get the phone number of the chick holding the Bible? Rarrrr!
i’m surprised there isn’t one at 1,500! but still WOW
JwJwBean: good idea – I have just done that – thanks.
Mystern: OH! No wonder people talk about him a lot!
Yeah. Loads of people consider him to be the power behind the puppet, as it were.
I thought you were being ironic with the ‘I don’t know who he is’ about Cheney…
Or maybe you are & it’s just me being slow…
dangorironhide: nope – I really didn’t know
I had heard his name though.
I think, if we all try really hard, we can get the comments on this list to reach a record high, 1500+! Then you could say the most commented list on the site was a list about most commented lists.
In all seriousness, congratulations, Jamie, on the continuing success of your website. My day would a lot more dull without it.
SlickWilly: We tried that with the last ‘most commented lists’ list, to create a rip in the space-time continuom that would swallow the earth, but it didn’t work haha.
In other words, we only got to about 40 comments
I don’t the earth would be swallowed by a rip in the time-space continuum. I think the internet would crash, society would freak out and regress back to the stone-age, and then we would start eating each other for sustenance. But we’ll never know until we try, right?
I believe this comment is #40…..so we are already doing better than the last.
Hahaha….holy crap, I made it to the top commenters list.
bucslim – “Could I get the phone number of the chick holding the Bible? Rarrrr!”
Hey bucslim…that’s me…in my, err, weekend clothes
Did anyone else notice that the guy in number 6 looks like a Mormon missionary?
We could probably get there if someone says something like George W. Bush liked Led Zep more than the Beatles because Paul is dead but believes Bible God sent his Son to drink Budweiser and Grape Nehi and watch The Boondock Saints and Fight Club while reading the Shining and bathing in the blood of Iraqis and washing it all off with Saudi Oil while Dick Cheney looks on from his Halliburton Penthouse while shooting terrorists and his hunting buddies in the face with a shotgun.
kiwiboi, you look almost as good as your sister.
bucslim: oh no you di’n't
Slick Willy – I’m gunnin for ya. Just a few more comments of pure witless dung from me and I’ll be up there too.
JwJwBean – oh snap!
Muwahahaha . . . You are still 100 comments from my comment spamming self!
bucslim:
Bring it.
LOL@ buclism!!!
That’s pretty funny that you didn’t know who Cheney was Jamie… And I agree with Cyn, that new t-shirt graphic needs to be on a mug too!
So, I’m pretty new around these parts, so while I try to keep up with the new lists as they come out, I’m also slowly making my way though older lists. This particular list is extremely helpful, since I now get to go read about Stephen King books! I hadn’t seen that one yet and now I’m way excited!
It would be pretty funny to get this list on the next “most commented on” list, so I’m willing to help out.
I agree that the comments on this site are very well thought out. Many sites just has idiots thinking they are always right or load of racism but this site has some excellent nuggets from readers that are just as entertaining as the lists.
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK JAMIE!!!!!!
We are coming up on 40,000 comments really fast Jamie… any ideas on how to celebrate??
Wow! its like watching a child grow and develop right in front of your eyes. Very cool to be a part of it all!
Buclism #44: ha ha , that was quite the collection of lists there. Very impressive
Having just read “Bible dude v. Everyone” argument that took place on the biblical stories list, I was particularly tickled by the “Bible God” reference in bucslim’s metalist. Well done, bucslim, well done.
SocialButterfly: How to celebrate? We get all the people who have shamelessly promoted their favourite beer in a previous list to turn up at Jfrater’s home with a six-pack of it. (No one, it would seem, is allowed to bring Bud). Then we all get to test the beers. I’m sure he won’t mind. After all, he started the whole damn fun fight.
LOL! I like that idea… maybe then we will know who really is the king(queen??) of beers!
keep up the good work jamie. i am new to this site (only a week) and i have been glued to the computer because of your fabulous lists!
it looks like the evolution list will be one of the most commented very soon.