I happened on this forum indirectly, by tackling some controversial topics taken up on Facebook. For some reason every topic on DISQUS is chock-full of hate-Obama invective and assertions that whoever disagrees with the persons so posting is a (choose your epithet) liberal. Is this forum some kind of Internet organ for the Tea Party?
I thought DISQUS is some kind of hosted commentary site. Like if a news site wanted to add a “comment on articles” feature, and didn’t want to develop it itself, it would delegate that to DISQUS.
Any site can use Disqus to handle comments. It is hosted by Disqus and clumsily added on to the site, which makes it slower to come up, but saves the site bandwidth.
Idiotic Commentary is neither the responsibility of the website nor of Disqus — both of which are relaying the thoughts and fears of normal ordinary people — but is an integral function of democracy.
Do you think we can eliminate that feature the next time democracy is upgraded?
DISQUS seems to exhibit the worst that democracy has to offer.
This has nothing to do with Disqus, this has everything to do with the site you came to it from.
Please see the OP for the answer to that.
This OP appears to have as factual answer. Before this turns into an unnecessary debate, I am moving it to General Questions.
A bare bones answer to the question may be found on Wikipedia.
Disqus just provides a generic “comment on this topic” service to other websites. Depending on which Disqus topic you end up on, you could end up with an entirely different set of discussions, like baking cakes or internet memes.
And many sites that used DISQUS for user feedback and interaction have eliminated it (and stopped all online user feedback completely) because of the excessive exuberance by those posters who believe their opinions are sacrosanct above everyone else.
It usually locks up my computer, that much I do know about it. :mad:
this. a lot of websites for local TV news stations use Disqus for their comments section on articles, and if you want to see the worst that the internet has to offer, you look at the comments section on the website of a local TV news station.
Plus some jurisdictions around the world are starting to hold websites legally responsible for what random commentators may say.
Faced with the dispiriting policy of reading every damn comment; no matter how revolting: and the need to censor such when so policing, it becomes easier just not to provide a platform.
Disquis is not a forum or forums. It is a comment management system. It’s like saying vBulletin is racist because some boards that use vBulletin are racist.
That’s probably a superior result than viewing the comments…
It’s better NOT to read it, eh?
Since the OP mentioned Facebook, a number of sites I frequent have switched their comment support system from Disqus (“Discuss”) to Facebook comment support. The Signal to Noise ratio does drastically improve for a while, but the crazies eventually do wander back on posting with fake facebook profiles, albeit at a much lower level.
Yeah…I found DISQUS’ home page and it turned out it’s more than Tea Party members’ ravings.:o
Oh, Good! 