If you are looking for an alternative way to reward commenters instead of the popular ‘Top Commenters’ plugin, you should consider Shaun Andersons newly released Custom Link Love Plugin. The plugin rewards regular commenters with a link to their blog but not those who are just paying a flying visit.

According to Shaun :

• Regular commentors will get a dofollow link that passes link love – with this, you really reward regular contributors.
• Those with less than say 3 comments will not get a link at all (although you can modify this) but when they do hit 3 comments, hey presto, link love, and with anchor text value!
• Pagerank won’t evaporate through nofollowed links from link droppers because they won’t be links!

I think this is a good idea for a plugin and it should increase the number of comments on most blogs. However, like all plugins which reward commenters, it is obviously open to abuse. Most of the people who spam my blogs with poor comments just to get a link to their blog do so several times so I’m not keen on sending PageRank juice to them.

Also, I’ve had some fantastic on off comments before. Shouldn’t these people be rewarded?

That aside, there’s no denying this is an interesting plugin and I’m sure many of you will be downloading it in order to reward your regular commenters

Link : Custom Link Love Plugin