How to Get 100+ Comments on a non-Contest Blog Post

Summary: Take a side in a polarized environment

Subtitle: Use a flamewar to generate comments on your blog.

This is actually probably better than my original.

subsection a: requires an audience to begin with.

For active bloggers - have you noticed higher numbers of comments furthering your sites goals at all? I see lots of people that actively try to increase comments, but I wonder if they're getting causation/correlation wrong.

A high-commented post probably indicates that you hit on a point well, and probably correlates with something meaningful. But do higher comments cause improvement in other metrics? That is, does actively trying to get your comments up produce good results?

Most blogs have near unreadable comments for me - I rarely bother. But maybe my experience differs from others'. Thoughts from regular bloggers?

High comments don't really mean you hit on a point well. In my experience it means you polarized a bunch of people: some people fall over themselves thanking you, others call you an idiot.

tl;dr troll