What's the best way to rate comments and why? [more inside]
posted by A Terrible Llama on Nov 18, 2009 - 17 answers

Best blogging software to allow easy commenting by strangers but avoiding comment spam. [more inside]
posted by bystander on Nov 6, 2009 - 10 answers

I would like to be able to search comments in numerous pdf files at once using Adobe Acrobat Pro 8. Can it be done? [more inside]
posted by nosila on Sep 12, 2009 - 4 answers

Every time I scroll too far down on a CBC.ca news story, I feel a piece of my humanity being chewed off by the mire that is the CBC reader comments section. [more inside]
posted by Decimask on Apr 20, 2009 - 7 answers

What percentage of comments on large blogs/newspapers are planned propaganda? [more inside]
posted by Damn That Television on Mar 30, 2009 - 4 answers

I'm looking for a piece of software that would work like a photo album, except for MP3s. [more inside]
posted by Gungho on Jan 25, 2009 - 4 answers

I'm interested in using one of these social commenting systems on my blog, but I'm unsure about their integration into wordpress, and the general future of either. Disqus is on Tumblr, but Automattic acquired IntenseDebate. Do you use either (either as a blogger or commenter)? What are your thoughts? [more inside]
posted by daboo on Nov 14, 2008 - 5 answers

WordpressFilter: Haven't blogged in about three months, and am considering a return at the same URL, but don't want to inherit all my old spam comments. Would deleting the Wordpress installation at that address then re-installing it essentially reset the spam, allowing me to better control it this time? FWIW, I've been using Akismet, etc., to monitor and catch most spam but would like as clean a slate as possible.
posted by sjuhawk31 on Nov 4, 2008 - 6 answers

Is there a simple PHP/MYSQL commenting system available anywhere on the internets? The Google has failed me. [more inside]
posted by bjork24 on Aug 15, 2008 - 11 answers

[DoMyHomeworkFilter] When commercial businesses post comments on a blog, what does "best practice" look like to you? And what companies have this conversational part of "conversational marketing" down to an exemplary science? [more inside]
posted by DarlingBri on Aug 7, 2008 - 10 answers

Can any of you recommend a Wordpress plugin that will enable me to turn comments on/off for particular blog posts? [more inside]
posted by chinese_fashion on Jul 16, 2008 - 4 answers

I have a question in two parts. If that's illegal, admin, please delete the last part. I'd like to hear suggestions for websites I should look at, and then advice on whether this is really how I should move forward with this. Hopefully, this is much clearer in the ... [more inside]
posted by segatakai on Jul 15, 2008 - 8 answers

Is there a website or firefox extension that will help me keep track of my blog comments? [more inside]
posted by jacquilynne on Jun 2, 2008 - 3 answers

I have a blog on (new) Blogger, and somehow I have managed to remove the envelope icon for "comments" (which may explain why I never have any comments on my blog). Help! How did I do this, and how do I get it back? (link to blog, details inside) [more inside]
posted by misha on May 13, 2008 - 3 answers

Best way to deal fairly with non-spam, malicious comments on a personal blog? Deleting them straight away, or allowing such comments but following up with an answer/reply? [more inside]
posted by gemmy on May 9, 2008 - 14 answers

Is it ethical to fake conversation in your own blog's comments section? I don't mean stirring up controversy for the sake of it or setting up straw-man arguments. I mean chucking some "model" comments on to the end of a batch of posts to let readers know the comments are there and easy to use. As a codicil: Has anyone done this and found that it effectively enticed discussion? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Apr 19, 2008 - 31 answers

How can I restore my totally disgustingly porn-hacked Wordpress blog to its former pristine state? [more inside]
posted by Drohan on Apr 11, 2008 - 15 answers

Excel for Mac - Where the hell did my comments go!!?? [more inside]
posted by fillsthepews on Mar 14, 2008 - 3 answers

Which websites are the best at conducting vigorous, intelligent online debates and discussions? I'm especially looking for successful examples of collaborative filtering; sites where readers can quickly sort the best posts/arguments to the top of the heap. [more inside]
posted by grrarrgh00 on Jan 21, 2008 - 4 answers

Can I send someone a YouTube video without the comments? [more inside]
posted by billysumday on Jan 11, 2008 - 9 answers

Can someone suggest an RSS reader (free, Mac Leopard) that will display a blog post's comments? [more inside]
posted by zardoz on Dec 12, 2007 - 15 answers

Does anyone have any thoughts on the best way (and the best script?) to implement a commenting system for normal web pages? I am currently torn between setting up WordPress as a CMS which would provide that functionality or trying to find a script I can add to a page (and there are to be 40 or so separate pages each needing separate comment fields). [more inside]
posted by dance on Jul 28, 2007 - 5 answers

How do you create a printable version of a livejournal entry's comments when there is more than one page? [more inside]
posted by crayolarabbit on Feb 9, 2007 - 5 answers

Is it possible to get "comments" to work on an iWeb web-site -without- using .Mac? [more inside]
posted by wavejumper on Jul 19, 2006 - 0 answers

How can you trust websites that include a comments section but delete comments that disagree with the original poster? [more inside]
posted by SeizeTheDay on Dec 5, 2005 - 22 answers

PHP comment script -- any recommendations? I want users to be able to add comments to the bottom of an existing static HTML, non-blog page. I'd also like something that won't let the comments get loaded with gambling and Viagra spam.
posted by shannymara on Oct 26, 2005 - 8 answers

My co-blogger and I upgraded from Movable Type 2.64 to MT 3.2, mostly for the rumored spam-fighting hottness. But now we're finding ourselves having to go through and manually junk thousands of spam comments every day, tediously picking out the real stuff. We've got the latest MT-Blacklist installed, but it doesn't seem to be doing a thing, and seems to have less functionality (where'd the de-spam option go??) than our old MT-Blacklist plugin. We're getting buried, and nothing seems to be working the way it should. What do we do? [more inside]
posted by grrarrgh00 on Sep 30, 2005 - 10 answers

How can I get Gmail to whitelist all my blog comment notifications? [more inside]
posted by arielmeadow on Sep 13, 2005 - 5 answers

Recently my blog has been getting comments consisting of gibberish linking to gibberish URLs. Unlike normal spam, they cannot be removed en masse via MT-Blacklist and have to be pried out one by one, and there's no way of preventing more of them without moving to pre-authorized comments (which this may force me to do). My question: cui bono? Who's getting something out of this? [more inside]
posted by languagehat on Apr 5, 2005 - 14 answers

What's the most efficient way to provide a MeFi-style x new comments count for a MeFi-style chat board? [more inside]
posted by bonaldi on Mar 28, 2005 - 7 answers

I have put my Moveable Type weblog to sleep, although I am keeping its archives up. Not surprisingly, comment spam continues to come in. It looks like there is no way to globally turn commenting off in MT. Rats. But I do have MT Blacklist installed, and I'm wondering if there's a good way to add some kind of regex wildcard to my blacklist that will deny all comments. Any ideas on how to stop all comments?
posted by scarabic on Nov 3, 2004 - 12 answers

To encourage people to comment on your blog: The comments in a popup, or on the entry page itself? (And more generally, what design features encourage commenting?)
posted by Tlogmer on Oct 2, 2004 - 13 answers

I came home from my two week vacation to find an enormous amount of comment spam on my MT weblog. I've now read this so I guess I know how to stop it from happening again (if I can figure out all the tech stuff), but deleting is turning out to be a nightmare. Is there some easier way to delete this than going into each post and individually deleting the spam comments?
posted by anastasiav on Aug 23, 2004 - 10 answers

Will future politicians have to explain their Web past [MI]? [more inside]
posted by Masi on Aug 11, 2004 - 5 answers

WORDPRESS. I've asked in the forums. Least helpful place I've ever been. If anyone here is familiar with wordpress please tell me, how do I set it up so that the page the user sees when s/he goes to a permalink has a link to the comments popup at the bottom and not the damn comment area I've been trying to do this for days now. [more inside]
posted by Grod on May 26, 2004 - 7 answers

Using Typepad, how do I make it so the comments "Pop Up" as opposed to taking the reader to a new page?
posted by adrober on Apr 10, 2004 - 3 answers

I'm working with a new 6th - 12th grade school focusing on Arts & Technology integrated into the cirriculum. We're looking for software that will allow us to accomplish varying tasks - e-mail for students/teachers/parents, digital portfolio publishing for students, shared discussion space for class comments, teacher/course specfic pages etc. Each student will have their own portable computer as well.

What I'm looking for is pratical thoughts/examples of how to provide this functionality. I've seen some schools using Manila, dotlrn also seems very promising but perhaps a bit too "big" for us to take on.

Is the weblog paradigm itself a good one to be pursuing to pull this off? Or are we just not ready to go there without significant effort? If you were attempting to create this techno environment for a school (many of whose students and teachers are unfamilar with technology) how would you pull it off?
posted by dhacker on Jan 18, 2004 - 10 answers