The ways to get featured comment (Good and Bad)

Hi! This is Hootboy, and after almost 9 months on GoComics I believe that I have seen every single way you can get featured comment on GoComics, good and bad. And there are WAY more bad ways then good ways here, so let me list them all:

1: Spamming your own comment:
Sadly, the most common bad way to get featured comment is spamming your own comment. I don't get what these people gain from being featured comment out of their own stupidity but people still do it.