What I find most appealing about Intense Debate's approach are its setup tools and administrative controls. Besides some of the visual analytics I mentioned earlier, the setup to white or blacklist certain words or phrases can give you a whole lot of control over automating comment moderation. You can pick one of three ways you want comments to appear on the page, and even tweak the look and style of them with one of the included themes, or use the version that will try to mimic your site's design--which I found to work only so well on a custom Wordpress blog.
Advanced users can go in and skin the heck out of the thing by linking up to a custom CSS file. The big thing services like Intense Debate and Disqus offer is the holy grail of a universal ID for comments, something I touched on earlier when taking a look at Disqus' approach. I think the hardest hump for these services to get over--a problem a product like coComment doesn't have--is that it requires adoption by content providers instead of users.
I'm happy to install a browser plug-in or sign up for one account in one place, but blog owners with closed or proprietary systems will have a tougher time making that kind of move, unless these services offer significantly more to users and site owners than other plugins or built-in user registration tools on popular platforms. But your case certainly shows something that others should be aware of as a potential risk; that instead of helping people to comment, you might actually be losing them.
By the way, that was very nice of your reader to take the time to let you know about this problem; I'm sure her effort helped to ensure you didn't lose any other readers because of using the Disqus platform. In any case, thanks Mansi for the thumbs-up on using IntenseDebate here on my blog.
It's becoming very clear that this was a smart move to make. Your email address will not be published. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Skip to content. Social commenting : Thanks to the IntenseDebate comment system, readers can now sign in to leave a comment by logging in through their Twitter, OpenID and other social media service accounts.
Of course, you can still leave comments like before by filling out your name and email address. Selective notifications for new comments : Before readers had the option to subscribe to new comments and that would mean getting emails for every comment that was made on a particular piece.
And yet, at the same time, when I post comments on blogs, I do look forward to seeing what response it might get from the blog writer or from other readers. With this new system, commentators can choose to have only new replies to their comment or have all comments sent to their inbox.
The Downsides of Being a Lifelong Learner. I'm glad you found this helpful, Geoff. Great stuff Tanveer — I'm sure you won't be disappointed! Winning a test of wills with a troll is a time consuming proposition. IntenseDebate has some false spam detection problems, but nothing on that level. Nothing that maddening.
Typepad is a somewhat OK system, but unless one is grandfathered in, one needs a paid account to comment. This reduces engagement, and leaves the Blogger who has Typepad Connect installed with an uncomfortable thought. Also, paragraph breaks fail to appear in comments, when they are seen on a Typepad profile, which can make longer responses difficult to read.
IntenseDebate has no such formatting problem. Stacking comment hosting systems is not an unprecedented thing. Buzzfeed did this for years, putting the Facebook comments on its articles above the comments posted through the native Buzzfeed comment hosting system. So, this is not a matter of inventing anything new. The major problem that arose at Buzzfeed was one that would not arise here. But, as far as I can tell, WordPress. If you merged the WordPress.
Some users would opt out of using IntenseDebate; nothing wrong with that. Not any time soon, I hope, but sooner or later, investors are going to made a fuss about fiduciary duties. Automattic is required by law to try to turn a profit. The Bay Area is full of people who can tell you stories about that. Who needs screaming, drama and headaches down the road, when one can be turning a profit, instead?
An angry user can easily turn into a silent user. Conclusion: This would be a win for your users, your investors, your weary staff and management, and for people who want to post comments.
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