Disqus Creates a Discussion Thread Instead of a Disconnected Comment Marathon
May 11th, 2008 Categories: Blogging Tips
Someone writes a compelling post on their blog that elicits say 72 comments. In most cases I have to read every comment in order to figure out who the hell is talking to who about what. Comment threads are often more entertaining than the blog post themselves, yet they are terribly hard to read/follow.
Disqus fosters a discussion thread rather than just disconnected comments:
As you can see, the layout is much more in line with an actual conversation and a far better format that having to employ the @commentor reply method.
The plug-in also allows interested commentors to continue the discussion via email, very cool for the BlackBerry afflicted ilk such as myself. Couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve been on the golf course, I mean ‘out of the office’, and felt compelled to throw my $.02 into a comment thread I was following but anguished at the thought of doing so via my pseudo-browser.
Yes I hear you iPhone people, you don’t have this problem, but most of you have AT&T as a service provider…so its a wash.
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