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Intense Debate aims to improve comments on your blog. I’ll make this short and sweet:
Nuff said.
I’m going to try it out for a week or so and see how it goes. I’ll miss Seesmic comments but I haven’t received a video comment in a while so I doubt it will affect anything.
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15 Responses to Why I Like Intense Debate
Intense Debate or Disqus? I’m torn. | Bwana.org
May 14th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
[...] of Intense Debate, but found it lacked support with FriendFeed. Recently, I went on record as to my reasons for liking Intense Debate. One of those reasons included their willingness to support Seesmic video comments. Today, Disqus [...]
Intense Debate or Disqus? I’m torn. | Bwana.org
May 14th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
[...] of Intense Debate, but found it lacked support with FriendFeed. Recently, I went on record as to my reasons for liking Intense Debate. One of those reasons included their willingness to support Seesmic video comments. Today, Disqus [...]
deden
December 27th, 2008 at 4:59 am
Just test to comment in intensedebate
defcon9491
January 10th, 2009 at 6:05 am
Intense debate is awesome, been using it for a month now, nice blog btw
defcon9491
January 10th, 2009 at 6:05 am
you may want to also add the expandable comments for your main page
bwana18751
January 10th, 2009 at 6:05 am
Cool, I just did that. It looks ok. I feel compelled to edit the CSS but i will resist
philgs19291
January 10th, 2009 at 6:05 am
The difficulty of extracting comments from Disqus is one of the things that has put me off about it. Good to know ID allows you to rollback easily. Now, if only I had some comments on my blog…
bwana18751
January 10th, 2009 at 6:05 am
I find these commenting tools increases the amount of commenting on your blog. I think the rating system of ID will encourage users to comment as well.
isaac_keyet
January 10th, 2009 at 6:05 am
Hey, check out the CSS documentation of Intense Debate at http://intensedebate.com/cssDocumentation.
Cheers, and good luck!
michael
January 10th, 2009 at 6:05 am
That's the main goal that we're trying to accomplish with Intense Debate – to give you the tools to better engage your readers. I'm really pleased to hear that you've already noticed an increase!
Our rating system is intended to not only encourage users to comment, but to also give you a quick way to cut through the junk and find the best comments made by the most credible users (as determined by your votes). It adds a level of accountability that I think has been missing from comments. Oh and by the way…you can choose how you want the comments to be sorted – by Rating, Date, or Last Activity – at the top of the comment section.
I don't mean post an essay here, it's just easy to get sidetracked! I really just wanted to thank you for the blog love and your kind words. We really appreciate it!
Cheers,
Michael
Intense Debate
bwana18751
January 10th, 2009 at 6:05 am
Sweet! I'm wondering, how does the reputation system work? Is there a page somewhere which explains the basic premise behind it? The more positive ratings you get the the higher your rep?
michael
January 10th, 2009 at 6:05 am
Our reputation system is based on two factors: your frequency of comments and positive vs. negative ratings. Here's some (very) basic info – http://intensedebate.com/features. We're currently remaking IntenseDebate.com, so there may be some additional explanation for this in the future on our website.
Hope this helps!
Michael
michael
January 10th, 2009 at 6:05 am
Thanks for the heads up on the spam blitz's Jake. Currently we provide moderation tools that allow you to screen comments based on keywords of your choosing. These comments are moved automatically to your moderation queue for you to approve or delete.
In addition, we also give you the ability to blacklist certain words. Comments containing these words will automatically be deleted. We give you the ability to ban users with an account from posting on your blog. This feature currently doesn't allow you to ban anonymous users, but you will soon have the ability to ban users from posting based on email and IP address.
Please let me know if you have any questions or feature ideas – feedback@intensedebate.com.
CannonGod
January 10th, 2009 at 6:05 am
I had a look though the ID settings and noticed the language filters, although I think the main issue I was trying to raise was that many people will actively seek to abuse voting systems. In fact whole groups of griefers will plan invasions and 'digg down' comments on mass that users make – regardless of the original commentors post.
What I would hate to see is the rep system you have developed to be abused in such a way. I love the idea of rewarding insightful/useful comments, and 'digging down' unhelpful ones. However, what protection is there for bloggers/blog commentors using ID when they are senselessly 'dugg down' for fun? Their one night of damage can destroy months of legitimate reputation building. However we mustn't forget that +ve Rep. bumping exists too!
I could suggest a few techniques (although they're based on AI principles & would need me to write a few notes before I passed them on), but another simple system measuring the influx of ratings from each user, the outflow of given ratings by each user, and an analysis of user trends might help flag up possible abusers for later moderation. This would allow control over user ratings and a degree of protection for serious users of your service.
I could talk more about curtailing voter abuse, but I feel bad for Mr Bwana by writing essays on his blog
(assuming he doesn't mind of course)
CannonGod
January 10th, 2009 at 6:05 am
A site like Digg needs this reputation system desperately! While you can digg or bury comments, the simple fact that they aren't properly aggregated means than you get spam blitz's of comment buries and diggs which ruins the community aspect. I guess it's something ID has to look out for in the future (if you've not already thought of it that is).
I would have once commented on Digg, but now I see no point. If they did choose to adopt a rep system – I would love to see it integrated with ID.