Who Comments on the AZU Blog?

For a long time I've pointed out that the comments section of AZU is a stagnant swamp of self-congratulatory backslapping mixed with personal insults against anyone displaying any opposing view or even a degree of critical thinking. Anyone asking unapproved questions is abused and attacked whilst the question itself is largely ignored. This was one of my main reasons for starting this blog as I felt there should be a forum where people are free to express their point of view regardless of which side of the fence they sit on. Of course, this has led to me being labelled a paedosexual in the AZU comments but that's hardly surprising - it's a minimising tactic to draw attention away from the argument and mire it in baseless emotion. It's the same thing as labelling the whites who stood alongside African-Americans in the 60's civil rights movement as 'nigger-lovers'. 

Anyway, I noticed recently that there were 257 comments on their Jan 7 post so I thought it would be an interesting exercise to tally up the number of comments posted by each person to get an idea of the breadth of contributors. 

Here's the breakdown:

Stitches the Cunt (SC): 85

Jacey: 32

Violet Leaves: 15

Carisma: 3

Brock Lee: 3

Dr Oldfield: 26

ZandJsMom: 1

Jeremy: 60

Joe: 2

Daydreamer of Oz: 4

SpankyDaClown: 5 (most of which were censored)

Alfa Da Mime: 1

Static: 17

Anonymous: 2

Tsand: 1

I found this quite interesting as it has confirmed what I long suspected: whilst the AZU posts tend to attract a lot of comments, they're only from a small number of people and generally consist of congratulating each other on how clever they are rather than saying anything meritorious. This is proved in this example where 81% of the comments came from just five people (SC, Jeremy, Jacey, Static and Violet Leaves). 

Yes, it's terribly pathetic but at least it keeps them busy when they could be out burning crosses in people's front yards.