Community is where you make it

Tag: comments

  • Out of Context Endorsements

    At the risk of alienating my commenters, I perused my comment database for phrases that sound like endorsements (but aren’t) — the more out of context, the better. “I love this guy!” –”Gary Walter “Wow, what a treat!” –”Jmartens “It’s musical, it’s funny, it wears well, and it really hits a raw spot.” –”Roy Gardner…

  • IntenseDebate Allows Comments to be Edited

    I’ve held off implementing Disqus or IntenseDebate commenting systems because they don’t let me edit comments left here. IntenseDebate has changed. According to Michael Koenig: You can edit comments within the WordPress moderation panel the same way you used to before having IntenseDebate installed. Your changes will be synced back into IntenseDebate. To do this…

  • WordPress Comments Done Right

    I like commenting on blogs. Unfortunately, plain vanilla WordPress blogs don’t make it easy to join and stay in the conversation. You can use two plugins to fix that problem on your blog. Filosofo Comments Preview. Nothing’s worse than typing an intelligent and articulate comment on a blog, complete with HTML codes for links and…

  • Intense Debate Doesn’t Allow Blog Owners to Edit Comments

    I asked Intense Debate whether blog owners have the ability to edit comments using their commenting system and received the following response: While I completely understand your interest in being able to delete profanity, shorten a URL extending into the margin, or fix a link, this would be an extremely controversial feature to add in.…

  • The Disqus Experiment

    Blogan.net is more an experiment than a platform for expressing my ideas. At least that’s the way it’s played out. It works for me. I have fun trying new cool things. If I have anything important (or not) to say, I have a place to say it. It’s time to try a new comment system.…

  • Don’t Miss the Comments

    If you’re not reading the comments on this blog, you’re missing out. Unfortunately, the comments have been easy to miss. I just changed that; the sidebar on the right now lists the more recently posted comments with brief excerpts. “Anon” posted a lengthy comment today applying chaos theory, capitalism v. socialism, jurisprudence, and parenting to…