Comments on: Automattic Acquires IntenseDebate – More Than Just Comments

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:53:18 +0000

I would really like to seem some sort of an alternative out there to Akismet. I run a few blogs and when I started looking at the “spam” folder one day, I say a lot of very relevant, well thought out posts that I would certainly have wanted in the discussion. I realize you can “train” you Akismet installation, but why should you have to. I don’t want to go through all my spam just to find the dozen or so “false positives”. There has to be a better way.

By: Jeff Chandler

Jeff Chandler — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:59:38 +0000

I’ve been thinking of doing a roundup of the different commenting services. I suppose its high time I do that.

By: Markus Merz

Markus Merz — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:03:22 +0000

Jeff, maybe it’s time to list all the available external comment tracking solutions.

My vote will always go to a meta comment service which collects and orders comments by article, subject, user, etc.

By: Jeff Chandler

Jeff Chandler — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:24:34 +0000

I highly doubt IntenseDebate will be forced upon users. The only exception may be WordPress.com blogers who may see a direct integration of the service. As for WordPress.org, looks like they will develop a full featured plugin that will take advantage of everything IntenseDebat has to offer. As for Akismet, I’m not sure if this will affect that services use or not.

By: Ajay

Ajay — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:11:08 +0000

It should be interesting to see what will happen. Will users be forced to use IntenseDebate or will there be an option.

What about IntenseDebate and Akismet?