Disqus Could Be Costing You Comments

I reckon most bloggers want more people commenting on their blogs but sometimes it takes more than a good post to get a comment out of the readers. One would therefore think that as a blogger you want to make it as easy as possible for people to comment on your blog. Even though there are so many spam comments floating around many bloggers have decided not to use captchas, moderating comments manually, because they don’t want to present hurdles to their commentators.

Personally I don’t like blogs using Disqus and it’s gotten so that I now finding myself scrolling down to see whether the blogger is using Disqus and if they are I don’t even bother reading the post. The only time I will comment on a Disqus blog these days is if I’m reciprocating a comment left on one of my  blogs.

I just don’t see the advantage to the commentator for having it installed and if it’s not making life easier for them then as far as I’m concerned it’s a waste of CPU.

Still, that’s just my opinion but as I was really interested in what others had to say on the matter I decided to run a poll on WassupBlog. It’s a simple yes or no answer but I would really love for you to leave a comment as to why you voted that way. I would also appreciate you Tweeting that post so as to get as many people involved in the poll as possible.



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This Post Has 4 Comments

  1. Mitch

    Okay, I was thinking I’d done this before, and now I know I have. 🙂

    1. Sire

      A bit like deja vu hey Mitch 😉

  2. Peter

    Got to agree with you on that one, I don’t get why you need to ‘outsource’ your comments function to another provider, what benefit does it have?!

    1. Sire

      Yeah, it’s weird isn’t it, and yet so many people do it.

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