  @nakedbones: Superficial? There are many ways to judge a blog. By it's design, feedburner score, content, conversation, photographs, images, and more. As mentioned, a comment counter is just another piece of information a blogger can give to visitors to tell them something about their blog. If it is a conversation blog, this is a neat way of giving them a hint that comments are not only welcome, but count in the literal sense of the world. I like that.  