Comments on: What’s the benefit of 3rd party commenting services? http://wp-fun.co.uk/2008/09/29/whats-the-benefit-of-3rd-party-commenting-services/ Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:31:15 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Why you should try Disqus before 2.7 - WP FUN http://wp-fun.co.uk/2008/09/29/whats-the-benefit-of-3rd-party-commenting-services/comment-page-1/#comment-952 Why you should try Disqus before 2.7 - WP FUN Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:11:59 +0000 http://www.wp-fun.co.uk/?p=533#comment-952 [...] 2.7 A week or so back I write a post on the back of the Intense Debate acquisition that was quite critical of third party blogging services. Honestly I didn’t really get the point. Now I’m here to say I’ve changed my [...] [...] 2.7 A week or so back I write a post on the back of the Intense Debate acquisition that was quite critical of third party blogging services. Honestly I didn’t really get the point. Now I’m here to say I’ve changed my [...]

]]> By: Andrew http://wp-fun.co.uk/2008/09/29/whats-the-benefit-of-3rd-party-commenting-services/comment-page-1/#comment-950 Andrew Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:51:57 +0000 http://www.wp-fun.co.uk/?p=533#comment-950 Privacy is a good point Kaspars, you would effectively be re-publishing someone elses content on another website so you would have to be explicit about that. Privacy is a good point Kaspars, you would effectively be re-publishing someone elses content on another website so you would have to be explicit about that.

]]> By: Kaspars http://wp-fun.co.uk/2008/09/29/whats-the-benefit-of-3rd-party-commenting-services/comment-page-1/#comment-951 Kaspars Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:34:41 +0000 http://www.wp-fun.co.uk/?p=533#comment-951 I would never use a third-party comment thing. Mainly because of the reason you stated -- they don't offer anything that can not be accomplished locally. I also consider comments a personal matter and the privacy issues that arise because of every comment going through a 3rd-party service might put off some of the readers (although most of them are probably unaware of that fact). I would never use a third-party comment thing. Mainly because of the reason you stated — they don’t offer anything that can not be accomplished locally.

I also consider comments a personal matter and the privacy issues that arise because of every comment going through a 3rd-party service might put off some of the readers (although most of them are probably unaware of that fact).

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