Cool new comment system on Blogstorm

Let me be the first to congratulate you on this system, its a great way for users to add exposure to the items that they want, and getting links to our social media pages.

Im not totally sure that it will improve the signal to noise ratio, but its a great idea nonetheless!

I think this is a very good system , since you don’t fill in details every time you want to leave a comment I think this will increase the number of good comments :)

Hi Malcolm – I fixed it. Something strange with WordPress auto adding http:// into the profile field but not letting that be added back into the database.

There aren’t many blogs that I’d register with, but this one is pretty decent so I’ll register!

Have you any plans to implement a system like HoboWeb where you get a dofollow link after you’ve earned some trust – after X number of posts?

I’ve just implemented it on my blog and I’m hoping that I’ll catch any spammy links before they’ve posted more than X posts. Having said that, your blog gets more traffic so perhaps it’s an overhead you don’t want?

Excellent comment system. I really like the integration with Twitter and Facebook!

Patrick,

That’s a very good point – something I hadn’t thought about.

Hmm, perhaps the new dofollow plugins from Shaun and Dave Naylor etc need to switch links off completely after 60 days or 90 days to get around that problem.

Thanks for the feedback, I will make the form clearer. You don’t actually need to wait for the email by the way – I will remove that part.

The link to your profile page is right under your comment. We are having issues with spaces in usernames at the minute but that will be fixed soon.

Hi Patrick – pretty cool :)

Anybody that passes link juice to another site should obviously be keeping an eye on things. I run a lot of blogs. I’ve only seen one instance of a site being removed from Google and that was cause it had been hacked and serving malware.

While linking to a bad neighbourhood is a concern, I think it’s well blown out of proportion. Sitewide links to a ropey site might be another matter – but I’ve never seen the odd link to a ropey site get a site de-indexed (unless it was hacked).

NO site can say it doesnt link to a bad neighbourhood, or we’d all stop linking to anybody. I link to about 4,000 pages last time I checked (!) – it’s impossible to keep track.

Maybe you’ve had different experience, but linking to bad neighbourhoods is Google FUD (unless they’re serving malware) as far as I can make out. And I can see why they promote it.

I see SO MANY sites with porn spam etc – sites are still in Google.

BUT now that I’m flowing juice, I’ll be even more heavily moderating things before they even get published. The link juice if for my regulars and intelligent interesting folk. I’ll be aggressively outing idiots too – might even do a weekly post with all their email addresses lol.

I don’t like the whole register to leave a comment either.

But on this site it appeared to be very simple – as was simple and quick.

The thing that made me register is that I was being asked to provide my facebook, twitter and flickr accounts. This is quite novel for me to see this on a blog site.

I may adopt this procedure for my blog, it makes sense.

Whoa! Using me as an example. I don’t know if that is good or bad. Either way thanks for the publicity.

Oh and by the way. I agree that registered commenters are preferred.

testing your new comment system :) Great Guys

One of the few quality sites that I am happy to register for.

when i leave a comment, the page will refresh?

I think it’s a good system. you use this much?