Like most of you I have always admired the comment system of other blog platforms like wordpress, but has waited (I’m still waiting though!) patiently hoping to see a better comment system one day. (Looks like we are not going to see one in the future either).
Why You Need To Quit Your Blogger Comment System??
When I’m away from the computer for a few hours if I have received for example fifty comments I can go to my Intensedebate dashboard to manage the comments.From here I can read the comments and see which posts the comments were posted on.I can click on each comment and reply or delete the comments from the dashboard, now i can reply to comments on one page without the need to go to the blog.
Intense Debate โ I don’t know why I mentioned this first, maybe becourse I’m currently using it on this blog, but what ever the reason might be I want to assure that this is one the best comment system in existence ‘don’t know if it is the best, you will tell me???’ Though most bloggers complain that it does not have the option to export your old blogger comments to your Intensedebate data base, this is true as you might have noticed that most of our posts still have that ‘archaic’ blogger blogger comment system. This is due to we choose to install intensedebate only on new post. I will be publishing an article soon on how to add intensedebate comment system on your blogger blog so make sure you subscribe to our update via email, twitter or facebook. (I promise I won’t spam you; I hate spam too). This is now owned by Automattic, the makers of WordPress and is totally free!
- Comment Threading
- Reply By Email: Respond to and moderate comments with ease via email
- Commenter Profiles: Special Profiles for commenters so that there is more interaction between people.
- Moderation/Blacklisting
- Reputation Points & Comment Voting
- Twitter: Tweet your comments
- Widgets: widgets like blogโs comment stats, the most recent comments made on blog, most popular posts and the most recent comment
- FriendFeed:(Best Feature)When comments are made in the context of a blog on FriendFeed, IntenseDebate will republish them back on the blog.
- Plugins API:Developers can enhance the comments by plugins like Seesmic video comments, PollDaddy polls, YouTube videos, smileys.
- Gravatar support.
- Facebook Connect and Twitter Sign-in: People comment via their facebook and twitter profiles and can further broadcast the content.
- Commentluv: This is not a new name to wordpress users, just incase you don’t know; this ‘luvly’ feature automatically put the latest post of your readers to their comments. (You can choose to deactivate it)
DISQUS –While on my re-search journey, I happen to read some user reply and discover that this is really the bloggers choice ‘โ It is the same thing that Mashable.com uses for its comments.’ (I’m not saying is the best; you still have to me which is the best) I once used it on my blog ‘not this one’ but had to remove after I learned about the commentluv (yes, there is no option for commentluv). One Interesting feature of disqus is the option to export old blogger comment to your disqus comment system database: By so doing you will not loose any of comments.
- Social Media Reactions: (Best Feature) Display mentions and comments about post from other services around the web (e.g. Twitter, FriendFeed, Digg, YouTube).
- Trackbacks
- Seesmic Video Comments
- Pagination
- Threading
- Facebook Connect and Twitter Sign-in: People comment via their facebook and twitter profiles and can further broadcast the content.
- Widgets like Popular posts and top commenterโs widgets.
- Blacklisting as well as whitelisting people.
JS-Kit (Echo) This is also another JavaScript based commenting system.Echo offers both free and paid packages!The free package comes with threaded comments and an interface where the commenter can add videos,images,similes, etc.The commenter can also format his comments using a simple WYSIWYG comment editor. I really don’t know much about this system (and couldn’t quite link to the source page) as I have never tried them before but I do hope that their a some of you out there that do know one or more things it ‘I honestly hope you share your ideas with me; I’m very Interested’ Or you could as well try it and share your experience with us.
- Spam control with Akismet
- Banning : Ban a person by the user name or by IP address
- Gravatar Support
- TrackBack/PingBack: Trackbacks/Pingbacks can be automatically be included in comments.
- Comment Ratings and Karma: Users can rate comments.
- Blogger Comment Sync: (Best Feature) Transparently switch back and forth between native Blogger comment system and JS-Kit Comment system with no loss of comments because comments are always synchronized with Blogger.
- Emoticons: 16 emoticons are available.
- Threads: Threading is also available
- Pagination: Comments can be paged.
- Commentluv a feature to give love to your commenter is available to only this commenting system
- Photo as well as video comments.
These are the three most popular commenting systems.They come with threaded commenting with Gravatar based profile images,which can make you commenting system look more professional.I personally prefer Intense Debate over the others.
Note: These comment forms come with an option to show the comment form on new posts only(means posts with 0 blogger comments)!That means your old comments will stay intact and will use the old blogger comment form.(This is optional.. you can also revert all posts to use the new commenting system.But in that case, you cant display the existing comments easily..)
These are nothing but my own lame idea and re-search, I know there hundreds others but it’s your turn to tell me about them (Remember the promise you made to me earlier). ‘to share with me’
Ebenezer Obasi
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