The good news is that we are growing and need to upgrade our comment system to cater for typo’s and idiots.
Unfortunately the bad news is that this means change and people hate change but don’t panic I think you will like it after you get used to it.
The new comment system, Disqus, is a cloud based service that allows you to comment, edit, report posts, like other posts and best of all share your user and your reputation across multiple sites.
Once you post a comment using Disqus with either a Disqus, Facebook, Twitter, OpenID or Yahoo login then you should stay logged in and you can then post using those same details at other great sites like TechCrunch.com, Mashable.com or Endadget.com to name a few.
If you see any comments that you feel overstep the line or are personally insulting then simply hover over the comment and select the Flag link. This will notify us and we can then take any action that we deem necessary.
But the most important thing is to Like the comments you see, this adds to a persons reputation and allows them to be seen as a more reputable source.
If the new system works well then I will be upgrading it to include better theming and realtime responding.
If you have any complaints leave them on this thread and I’ll take them into consideration.
Oh and don’t worry we still accept anonymous comments so flame away if that’s what floats your boat.
Personally I prefer using my Twitter account for posting so that I can get some free follows if people like what I post.
Last Updated: December 31, 2010
Gavin Mannion
December 31, 2010 at 07:27
Oh and I forgot to also say that you can now post images and video simply by posting the link… you won’t see them being attached until you reload though but everyone else will
http://consilience.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/great20white20shark202.jpg
Darthdad
December 31, 2010 at 08:59
Nice!
Rez
December 31, 2010 at 09:18
Iinteresting.
Aussious
December 31, 2010 at 09:39
Hmm it will take some getting used to, but looks promising.
Pollynator
December 31, 2010 at 09:57
Looks alright. Not sure about the massive vertical spacing… but seems cool.
Gavin Mannion
December 31, 2010 at 11:03
Yeah I need to sort out the look and feel… but didn’t want to mess around to much and break something until I am sure we want to keep it.
My problem is that I seem to have 3 different accounts… not sure what I did there :S
onelargeprawn
December 31, 2010 at 10:07
“typo’s” – I see what you did there 😉
e1ace
December 31, 2010 at 19:33
Looks great! How many levels can you comment to? Time to find out I guess.
e1ace
December 31, 2010 at 19:34
Level 1
e1ace
December 31, 2010 at 19:35
Level 2
e1ace
December 31, 2010 at 19:35
Level 2
Gavin Mannion
January 2, 2011 at 17:14
You should able to post deeper than this?
Gavin Mannion
January 4, 2011 at 07:05
Testing integration and threading
Gavin Mannion
January 4, 2011 at 07:35
Manual Integration worked… what about automatic?
Gavin Mannion
January 4, 2011 at 07:36
Oh and threading seems to work just fine… now onto default avatars
e1ace
December 31, 2010 at 19:35
…
e1ace
December 31, 2010 at 19:36
Ok so it seems like if you reply to a message too deep it just posts it at the end…
@Gavin please feel free to delete all this ‘spam’.
Gavin Mannion
January 2, 2011 at 17:14
it should go on forever really
hmmmm bugs I see
Generic ZA
January 3, 2011 at 12:54
like the like button a likeable addition to this likeable blog, did I mention I liked the like button yet?
DieJason
January 3, 2011 at 14:39
Great, thanks o/
MieLLiePaP
January 4, 2011 at 10:18
cool 🙂
Gavin Mannion
January 4, 2011 at 13:21
There is still a problem where all our old comments haven’t migrated to the new accounts… this may never be fixed unfortunately but I am still trying.
However moving forward all the data should be maintained and the reputations should begin growing. Which is good news for some of our past readers who didn’t quite behave I guess 🙂
Oh and we haven’t lost any data at all so no need to panic, your insightful comments still exist
Gavin Mannion
January 5, 2011 at 14:25
Just a note, comments wills only be automatically removed after they have been flagged 5 times. We do get notified about every flagged comment though and then make a decision from there.
The 2 that have been flagged so far are both insulting the authors of the posts and we are all big boys and girls and don’t mind that. The flagging system is not meant to stifle freedom of expression it’s here to protect you and us.
I hope that clears it up if you were wondering.
Jarrod Lane
January 6, 2011 at 11:54
Question the system says you got x amount of likes. How you find out what was liked?
Gavin Mannion
January 6, 2011 at 12:24
You can go to your Disqus dashboard and see all your activity from there
http://disqus.com/dashboard/
The link to your dashboard is next to your name when posting… if you have registered with Disqus that is.. else I don’t know if you can
Gavin Mannion
January 6, 2011 at 12:49
If you check the community box you can see who is leading in the Like stakes.. I need 2 more likes to take the lead, who wants free stuff 🙂
Oh wait we still need to give away the stuff from December, never mind..
Exalted Overlord Geoffrey Tim
January 6, 2011 at 13:31
Id like some free beer, please.