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.
Clarissa's Blog 
Intense Debate is the worst, but so is Blogger’s native commenting system. I use Disqus because it’s the most popular and streamlined. WordPress comments were great, but I moved, so… yeah. If WordPress offered a decent way to customize the layout without going full .ORG, I’d have never left.
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Disqus revealed my RL name and email I NEVER use for blogging the very first time I tried using it. It is needless to say that I never entered my real name anywhere. It just traced me and published it without my consent.
What is it that you don’t like about the Blogger system?
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Two things: one, when I try to comments, many people set the option to open a pop-out window, or a new page, and the login options are crappy, IMO. I like the option to be able to enter my chosen internet handle, my email, and my web address, and many Blogger accounts make you comment with your Google profile, instead. Two, many of my commenters complained about their comments disappearing or simply not posting, and I could never find them in the spam area, so I don’t know what happened to them.
I don’t understand this Disqus problem with revealing full names. Other commenters on my blog have complained of the same thing, but it hasn’t happened to me, and I just have no idea how to fix that. I leave options available for people to comment anonymously through Disqus, though, using just their own created username at the time to get around that.
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Reminds me of the first time I used my google account to comment.
Google used my full name for the post without asking me and I had to request the sites admin to delete the comment.
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Yet another reason I left Tumblr (which has no native commenting system so you have to use Disqus or something like it). I hate Blogger commenting too. It eats my comments.
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It’s true about Blogger. I’ve had people complain that I was censoring them when the reason their comments were not appearing was that Blogger kept eating them.
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What is even worse for “Blogger” is that it supports “Disqus”, which is another shitty social networking service.
#IHateDisqus
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I think such things are a relic of the days when most blogging platforms didn’t have a decent built-in commenting system. There was once called Haloscan that mophed into something else that morphed into Disqus, I think. Disqus is the default system used on Tumblr, I think, so I use it there, but it keeps asking my to log in with my Facebook Id or my Twitter Id so every time I use it I have something of an Id crisis.
But the default built-in commenting systems on Blogger and WordPress are quite adequate for my needs. What I can’t stand are the blogs that ask you to log in before you can comment – so you have to have yet another Id and password and whatnot. I think even IntenseDebade must be preferable to that. I don’t want to have an id and log in to comment on one article when I’m inlikely to read anything else there ever again, or if I do, I’m sure to have forgotten the Id and password. I think someone has created a default login for such sites.
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I know! Why people adopt systems that make commenting harder than entering the FBI is beyond my comprehension.
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