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Tag: Intense Debate

  • 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…

  • Intense Debate: Who Owns Your Comments?

    Intense Debate wants to know who owns your comments. In a poll, they offer three alternative proposals: Blog Publisher Ownership – Comments made on a blog belong to the blog owner, giving them the ability to edit the comments as they see fit (deleting and editing comments). Blog owners have had this ability with WordPress…

  • Disqus: Bloggers Should be able to Edit Comments

    According to Danial Ha on the Disqus Blog: Bloggers should still control: […]c) The modification of a comment, as long as the original copy is still accessible and the edit is transparent (Source.) Yes! Exactly what I’ve been saying. Maybe Disqus will get it implemented before Intense Debate does (if they ever do). I continue…

  • 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.…