We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it’s time we paid some damn attention to them.

So we’ll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day’s work. Maybe two comments, even.

This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involving wit, clarity and whatever else we feel like at the moment.

Yesterday, we gave you ten surefire ways to get us to un-follow or de-friend you on Twitter and/or Facebook. Of course, some of our commenters furnished their own reasons, like JesseHughey:

13. 4Square. Telling me you’re the mayor of Joe’s Sandwich Shop or just earned the No One Cares badge results in immediate unfollow unless we are really good friends in real life. Even then, it’s tempting.

Amen, Jesse. Amen.

This article appears in Jan 19-25, 2012.

Jeff Balke is a writer, editor, photographer, tech expert and native Houstonian. He has written for a wide range of publications and co-authored the official 50th anniversary book for the Houston Rockets.