Comments on: Comment Systems Review Redux

By: Scott Jangro

Scott Jangro — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:17:04 +0000

I look forward to it.

By: jimmy

jimmy — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:24:31 +0000

thanks

By: ekz

ekz — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:04:16 +0000

thank you

By: Tony_L

Tony_L — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:52:30 +0000

This is good stuff. and nice blog. makes me feel like a caveman at blogging. where did you get this template? is it custom?

By: Scott Jangro

Scott Jangro — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:01:22 +0000

I've been out of town, thanks for the clarification, Michael. This is good to know.

By: ponto g

ponto g — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:27:45 +0000

i love disqus and comment luv. those 2 are imbatible in terms of comments. they both are very stylish and easy to manage.

By: Michael Koenig

Michael Koenig — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:06:40 +0000

Scott, I figured that there needed to be a third employee in the comment section here…

In regards to the nofollow link attribute, IntenseDebate comments are generated by JavaScript so comments (including the links they contain) are not indexed. However with our WordPress plugin, comments are output back into the WordPress comment section, so whatever nofollow or dofollow configurations you had in WordPress are applied to comments that are synced back into WordPress.

Hope that helps!

By: Dale Dietrich

Dale Dietrich — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:57:26 +0000

For anyone that is interested, I wrote a rather detailed 'how-to' type post on how to add Intense Debate into a Wordpress 2.7 blog:

http://www.daleisphere.com/how-to-install-intense...

While I obviously like it (wouldn't have installed it if I didn't). I have a few issues so far:

- My template's css isn't working and the comments are flush left on my blog

- I don't like the default Intense Debate avatar. It's kind of dull and grey. In WP. 2.6/2.7 you can choose a set of changing and colorful detailed default avatars. I'd really like to see this changed.

- I don't like that I can't force users to enter an email address. This has resulted in MUCH more anonymous spam than before.

- I would REALLY love for there to be some cross-community features between ID, Disqus and others so that commenter reputations, histories, profiles etc. work across all comment systems. I love the competition but don't much like the 'comment islands unto themselves' created by this competition.

- I had significant problems getting the installation to work on two of my three blogs, even with the latest 2.0.18 plugin. But the support team was marvelous and really helped out (over weekends and even on New Years Eve). So BIG thumbs up to the support/development team (Jon and Austin in particular) for going the extra mile to get the wrinkles worked out.

- the 'IntenseDebate Enhanced Moderation' option screws up the comment moderation page in my Wordpress 2.7 dashboard. It makes the page only a few inches long instead of the entire length of my open browser. So, I have that option unchecked for now.

- most of my commenters are NOT ID users, so it's a bit of a waste land for now. I'm hoping some will choose to sign up.

- would be nice if there were some formatting options for the users (so they can underline, make bullet lists etc.).

I'm looking forward to seeing how this all works out.
…Dale

By: Scott Jangro

Scott Jangro — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:34:00 +0000

Hopefully. I haven't dug into the WP 2.7 comment schema, but if it supports threaded replies, then Disqus and ID would certainly need to import the comments with each comments' parent ID intact. They may not have had to do that until 2.7, so it probably requires an update on their part.

By: Scott Jangro

Scott Jangro — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:32:13 +0000

And now it is showing. Maybe my second reply did it? odd. Sorry for all the replies, though I do get into test mode myself when I see strange behavior.