The Roar reaches one million comments

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Roarers, a special milestone has been reached: one million comments have been published on The Roar.

So we’ve put together some data and stats to showcase what one million comments looks like.

Where it all began: the very first comment

“Them’s fightin’ words, Spiro!…” by Searly on Christmas present for the Wallabies, on 15 Dec 2006. It set the scene really, didn’t it?

So, who left the millionth comment?

None other than superstar live blogger and horse racing expert Justin Cinque, who wrote this comment on the 2013 NAB Cup live blog:

“10 to go FIRST HALF
Collingwood 1.0.2.11 Essendon 0.1.0.6
He missed Cloke.
Bombers fans let him know.”

Wait, just how many is one million?

Let’s put it this way. Here are the some long, and well known books:
War and Peace: 590,234 words
The Bible: 774,746 words
and, The Roar comments: 75,877,391 words. Or the equivalent of War and Peace written 128 times!

Our path to one million comments

The path to one million comments

Which sport has received the most comments? One guess…

Comments by sport

Our most prolific Roarers

Take a bow, gentlemen. Brett has made 12,671 comments and Sheek has contributed 11,258 of the most ridiculously informative sports commentary. True Roarers!

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