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you wonder why i chose now to write this post. it's a good question.
i'd noticed a lot of chatter in twitter lately about why to use disqus, most notably robert scoble and others who were talking to him about it.
i was going to twitter the three reasons right then and there
but then i thought better of it. i really needed a bit more than 140 characters to do justice to the reasons.
so that's it. it seems to have spawned a great discussion and debate. which is wonderful. and a bunch of feature requests for disqus and its competitors too.
fred
you, I think a healthy comment section is the mark of a good blog, so
it's worth thinking about how to make it better. And for me, Disqus
definitely does that.
I love it though. It's efficient and has significantly decreased the amount of spam comments I see now. If anything, the only spam I receive are from entries that I chose not to have Disqus included on.
I think I'm gonna put it on PL eventually too, if I ever get a free second.
departments and agencies, it seemed to work fine :-)
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I'd suggest looking in the Spam section of the Dashboard every once in a while. The first time I did I found a slew of false-positives, posts it had categorized as spam which weren't spam.
I don't miss trackbacks, and I guess I'd like to keep a copy of the comment data, though if they ever went down I can't imagine when I'd find the time to import them into something else. And why would that be more likely to survive? I don't see why we should blame Disqus for a lingering problem none of us have really addressed, the future-safeness of our work.
how Disqus saved her when her blog host went down -- so that was a
situation where having comments hosted elsewhere was actually a
benefit.
Having said that, I just rolled it out on my blogs, so I guess we'll see! :)
there's a reply -- or should.
I really like the service and the community around it.
You might want to take a look at this: http://ryanspoon.com/blog/2008/05/15/disqus-aft...
how much SEO value there is to Google being able to search comments
(and I believe you can implement Disqus without using Javascript). But
I agree that direct access to email info and the ability to have
trackbacks are both useful things, and I hope Disqus adds them soon.
usability problem"; I prefer threaded conversations, for one thing
(although many disagree). As for the need to register, while it does
turn some people off it also makes it more likely that the person
commenting really wants to contribute -- and thereby keeps the number
of malicious comments to a minimum. There are benefits and drawbacks
to both approaches, obviously.
I don't like asking my users for email addresses, it's orwellian.
Have Disqus taken any additional steps to quell spam? I've read that they have become a real target for spam.
Is there an easy way to disable comments after a set time period when using Disqus?
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