Just because he is a new to the game it doesnt mean that I should tell him the same thing everyone else si saying. I have my own expirience and opinion, if you can't handle it don't read it. What do you think how many OBL's Huff post have? Do you think they count their OBLs? If you have a great site no one will give a damn about your OBL's.
Sure, if you're buying a link from some page it is better to have less links, but do you think that link from Forbes on page with 50 OBL's is useless compared to a link from a crappy PR3(with shitty DA/PA)site with no OBL's ?
Furthermore, anyone told this guy that links in the comment are tend to be no-follow, cause I guess that's his link building strategy.