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Re: Reblogging Comments

obscurelyfamous — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:00:02 -0000

I did verify your issue. It has more to do with Netvibes than Disqus, however I will look into a workaround for this use case.

Explanation: Disqus refreshes the page upon a comment post, but Netvibes is nesting this within its own Iframe which prevents Disqus from properly refreshing.

Re: Reblogging Comments

fredwilson — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:37:16 -0000

I have come to believe that if its not in the main column, it gets ignored. A river of content, is what it seems most people want to consume

Re: Reblogging Comments

Jason Preston — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:18:41 -0000

Reblogging comments is a good idea, and a great way to keep your community active, engaged, and commenting responsibly. I know this is something that many newspapers struggle with, and I think a big part of it is the way they insist on rolling their own five-years-behind-the-times comment systems.

I also think it would be cool to widgetize the reblogged comment, much like the NYTimes has "comments of the moment," which I've blogged about before.

Basically, if there were a place on my sidebar where I could pick and choose to feature any given one, two, or three comments that I felt like. This seems like a natural extension to the "latest comments" widget.

Re: Reblogging Comments

andyswan — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:08:06 -0000

Twitter can help. Get started on that and before you know it, you'll be putting no more than 140 characters into everything. Simplify :)

Re: Reblogging Comments

SimplyNoting — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:26:13 -0000

Hey Fred,

"Long time listener, first time caller." I'm an engineering grad student at Stanford and I frequently comment on company blogs just to ask questions and maybe provide constructive critiques. I spend a lot of time on these comments -- for example, I just wrote on Xobni's blog (against an inflammatory troll) about my honest view on the market for this product (which was skeptical)

http://www.xobni.com/blog/2...

I even did some research! But check out the response; clearly SimplyTired did not read my comment (mine was admittedly, kinda long).

I feel like the problem with comments is that they cannot measure in anyway their intellectual depth (or even their word length) even though they can measure their popularity. I made some very specific points about information retrieval and so on, but they actually seemed kinda lost on my "combatant". Is there any technology which can fix this?

Anyway, Fred, I think this is a great idea!

Re: Reblogging Comments

fredwilson — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:54:54 -0000

when i reblog a comment onto my front page, it really doesn't need to be aggregated

Re: Reblogging Comments

vincentvw — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:55:55 -0000

It just happened, so here's a screenshot: http://img.skitch.com/20080... The little circle just keeps turning until I refresh the whole page.

Re: Reblogging Comments

vincentvw — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:52:11 -0000

What I occasionally get is that the comment is on eternal refresh after I post it, and I have to refresh the whole page. It doesn't lose the comment however, and I think I've only seen it happening when I look at the page through the Netvibes-interface (i.e. I go to a feed, and don't use the feed-view, but have it take me to the site within the frame).

Re: Reblogging Comments

slowblogger — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:56:38 -0000

Sorry for posting the same comment at http://www.avc.com/a_vc/200.... I would like to delete that one, but I don't see any delete button.

Re: Reblogging Comments

slowblogger — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:53:58 -0000

I have long felt the need to save my comments somewhere, as I found myself writing (and often enjoying) more comments than writing on my own blog. So, I have been using some solutions to keep my comments somewhere.

I first used Cocomment, which was probably the most optimized that purpose. But they did not provide a good UI, fonts being too small etc, and they did not work in some platform (like Disqus, understandably).

So, I switched to Tumblr, which is more robust, though it takes a few more seconds with Tumblr than with Cocomment.

Recently, I started considering using Wordpress with Pressthis. The decision will be based on whether I would like to have the comment blog and the regular blog separate, which is as-is, or integrated.

Personally, Disqus did not fit in my own blogging/commenting pattern so far, though I think it is very neat. I may try the reblogging feature a bit.

Re: Reblogging Comments

falicon — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:29:56 -0000

very cool as I'm pretty into the whole reblogging idea right now...the 'next' thing I would love for them to do is give you the power to reblog the entire conversation (since to me, a lot of value in comments comes from the context of the overall conversation)...I think you usually need the whole thread for people to really benefit...overall though I really think this is a step in a good direction.

We'll have to see how people really use it before it's clear what the next real step is.

Re: Reblogging Comments

Mrinal — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:23:00 -0000

retweets, reblog/comments, friendfeed - how can we aggregate it all this well, Fred?

Re: Reblogging Comments

obscurelyfamous — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:22:25 -0000

Thanks for the love, but any issue is a big deal to me. I have not seen any instances of what you describe but I'll keep an eye out (what you describe is actually not possible with how Disqus works, but it could be a result of other combined quirks of the page).

Re: Reblogging Comments

andyswan — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:53:40 -0000

No one owns comments. The comments own you. :)

Re: Reblogging Comments

gregorylent — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:28:36 -0000

disqus could be getting a bit clunky, there are sites http://www.inquisitr.com/26... where the reply tab just refreshes the page, have lost a few comments too .. no big deal, i love it.

Re: Reblogging Comments

Robert Seidman — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:14:12 -0000

Agreed, another great feature from Disqus. Though trying to convince anyone with control issues over the comments may be tantamount to asking the Pope to convert to Judaism. But so far, I find it well worth the conversion. It would be even nicer if it were possible to reblog comments from our own blog’s comments section without having to visit Disqus first.

Re: Reblogging Comments

Bill DAlessandro — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:02:14 -0000

Awesome Fred. Another great feature from Disqus - you guys are really changing interaction on the web.

Just getting into reblogging - loved your Obama quote on Tumblr earlier, and the article it came from - reblogged it with one click. Pretty cool that I will be able to do this across the web with Disqus now too.