Comments on: Comments Please

By: antfactor

antfactor — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 06:42:43 +0000

I guess I nearly always read here (I, too, love the clean format!) and so I nearly always comment at the source – HERE. :) I love your blog… now if I could only figure out how to better focus/manage where I wish to go with mine. (ha!)

By: Rumpelfilter

Rumpelfilter — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:16:09 +0000

and anyway… Spam is the new Dada… :)
http://youtu.be/2a_EgCmwCp0

By: jonathan

jonathan — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:40:39 +0000

i recommend disqus. it imports all of your current comments and sends new ones back to your database too. and it left people comment using their facebook and / or twitter, etc. also its very good at catching spam!

By: Oliver Chesler

Oliver Chesler — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:58:59 +0000

I’ve heard a lot of mixed reviews concerning Disqus’s performance. Right now I think I’m going to either stick with the native WordPress install or try Livefyre for a week and see how it goes.

By: Oliver Chesler

Oliver Chesler — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:57:46 +0000

Thanks for your input. Yeah using just Facebook seems wrong.

By: Rumpelfilter

Rumpelfilter — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:14:28 +0000

I don’t have Facebook and I plan on keeping it that way (and it seems I’m not alone). From a user point of view Disqus seems to be working fine (though on some sites it asks to me to log in every time, which is a bit annoying)

By: Miguel Marcos

Miguel Marcos — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:19:01 +0000

My vote is for Disqus. Facebook doesn’t exist for me. Disqus allows users to use their twitter, google or facebook accounts.

By: Oliver Chesler

Oliver Chesler — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:40:08 +0000

Thanks for the chime in James… your readership must be 10x what’s here and if your managing to keep the WordPress system maybe I need to check the Comment Blacklist carefully.

By: James Lewin

James Lewin — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:35:58 +0000

We switched back to WordPress comments and added the most common spam topics to our Comment Blacklist in the Settings – Discussion page of WordPress. That + Akismet catches about 150,000 spams per month at Synthtopia.

We have some style sheet issues to resolve still -but thats a separate issue.

Good luck with the spam problem!

By: Oliver Chesler

Oliver Chesler — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 22:19:24 +0000

I’ve heard people like it. I’ve had Disqus in 3rd place because I read some people were having issues but also the comments live in Disqus and can never come back to WordPress. But they are big enough they aren’t going anywhere so… I’ll have to look more into the customization and not drinking heavily and commenting.