I left those psycho ex-comment systems behind a month or so ago, and I don't miss them.
With the exception of nested comments, there is nothing I long for while using the basic WP comments.
And spam actually seems to be less of a problem now - I have the Akismet and Bad Behavior plugins and they work well for me.
Shawn how is Akismet working for you? Have you had any complaints from commenters?
Yesterday was my first experience with Akismet. I made a non-spam comment on a blog ans was marked spam. Funny thin is that the post topic included Akismet being used to catch spam. Good luck with it but keep an eye out it:)
Actually Shawn, as of WP 2.7, it supports nested comments natively. You just need a theme that supports nested comments. Thesis has been promising it, but I don't think it's coming in 2.5.
My old theme here doesn't support it. I need to fix that.
The thing that I think I'll miss the most is easy email alerts for people, though there are plugins for that.
Hey Scott,
I’m new to your blog but after doing some research on social medical and affiliate marketing I saw the words Random Geekery so I had no choice but to click through and see what was being discussed. I am glad I did because I like what I sees so far!
When looking at your home page I saw this post and because I have been where you are at I had to at least say I feel your pain, deeply!!! I used to be a fan of Disqus but my readers used to complain about it being very slow and most of the time they were getting errors so I had to let them go and started using Akismet on Tuesday (so far no complaints).
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http://mymumbaicity.wordpress.com also use these systems. But if you check out the websites, you can control it quite easily. Its all a matter of plugins mate.
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I love the idea of blog comment systems. I used to love disqus and intensedebate, but I cannot say that any longer.
Whether it's out of control spam, incompatibilities with themes, poor comment management, lost comments, and now duplicate comments, they've pushed me away.
I'm like a beaten spouse that keeps going back for more.
I just got through reviewing several hundred comments, removing spam that got through, and cleaning up hundreds of duplicate comments (there are still thousands to go through).
I've had it. No more. I want a divorce.
It's back to the plain old Wordpress comments bachelor pad for me.