Aug 23, 2009 Posted by David Torcivia on Aug 23, 2009 in Site Info

New Comment System

Today I’ve installed a drastically improved comment system to the website. ViaTorci is now sporting the IntenseDebate commenting system. What this means is multiple logins, threaded conversations, karma ranking, reporting of comments, and notification of responses.

Multiple Logins: You can now login with an IntenseDebate account, Twitter, Facebook, openID, or remain anonymous as a guest. OpenID uses the login information from popular services such as Google Accounts or Yahoo and allows you to login into hundreds of thousands of sites across the net with that same information. The Twitter login offers the ability to tweet a link to your response and the article. Facebook may send a link to your response to your wall depending on the allowances you give the site when signing up. This means you do not have to go through the process of creating a new account to simply comment.

Threaded Conversations: Keep the conversation rolling by replying directly to a comment. Instead of digging around, trying to figure out who was replying to what, you know have a simply visual indication of where the discussion originated from.

Karma Ranking: See a response you like? Give it a thumbs up. Someone say something dumb? Thumbs down. Vote on good and bad points to give a visual representation of your sentiments.

Report Comments: Someone say something blatantly offensive and obscene? Spammers hijacking the thread? Report it. An administrator will make short work of the miscreants.

Notifications: Made a comment, left, and returned a weeks later to find someone responded seconds after you posted? Email notifications of comment replies make sure you stay relevant in the conversation and don’t have to resort to constantly reloading a page looking for responses.

I hope you enjoy the new system and that it really does inspire intense debate.