A huge milestone was reached on January 22 in the online pages of this newspaper, which appears to have slipped by without recognition of any kind for the undoubted champion of timesofmalta.com’s commenters. With that day’s contribution of 19 comments, Peter Murray passed the 13,000 mark!
I append below a league table of commenters/contributors with each name followed by the number of comments recorded as of the issue of the 22nd. I have recorded only the top seven exceeding 2,500 as I could find them. There could well be other large contributors but, certainly, none would be approaching the Murray record.
1. Peter Murray: 13,016
2. Victor Pulis: 5,269
3. Ramon Casha: 4,252
4. J.Martinelli: 3,204
5. Francis Saliba: 2,888
6. Clare Busuttil: 2,763
7. R. Saliba M.D: 2,513
On reaching the 13,000 milestone, I feel that due recognition should be given to Murray for his vast writings and his extensive knowledge on any and all subjects, as expressed in his voluminous contributions to the comments sections!