What is it with bloggers who keep installing weird commenting systems on their blogs? Don’t want people to comment? Just disable comments altogether instead of making them go through some weird new-fangled system that makes you feel cool.

First, there was Disqus that was so bad it forced me to drop over 15 blogs out of my blogroll. I kept trying to comment but faced with the need to battle with the Disqus that seemed dedicated to revealing my RL info, chose to drop these blogs altogether.

And now there is another commenting system that is even worse than Disqus. It’s called IntenseDebate. Whenever you comment on a blog that has IntenseDebate, it creates a profile for you and begins storing all the comments you made on blogs that have adopted this system. Of course, you are never informed that this is going on. A little dossier of your comments (torn completely out of context) is created. Any obsessed cyberstalker can easily access them and fuel their insanity. (I have such a crazed follower who dedicates endless hours to following everything I do online. Thanks to this strange creature, I discovered that IntenseDebate had created a profile for me. Without being in any way authorized by me to do this, of course).

I have no idea why some bloggers keep being so disrespectful to their readers. If a person decides to comment on your blog, this isn’t the reason to put them through a system that traces their every online move and treats them like suspects in some crime.

If you have any respect for your readers at all, you need to put a huge banner on you blog warning them that you use IntenseDebate to spy on them. Otherwise, you don’t deserve to have any readers at all.