I used to use Brian’s Threaded Comments here on my blog but it hasn’t been updated to work with the newer versions of Wordpress. I’ve been looking for something to replace it but hadn’t found anything…
… til today.
A buddy of mine is helping create this awesome new Comment Plugin called Intense Debate
Intense Debate lets your readers reply to other readers comments allowing logical conversations to develop on your blog. Gone are the days of having to sort thru the long list of comments to keep track of what’s being said.
Check out some of the great features that Intense Debate has and then let me know what you think by testing it out below
Tracking/Notifications
Interested in the comments your friends make? What if there was a way to follow your friends and be notified when, where, and also what they comment? Intense Debate provides this functionality through RSS feeds for each user. Subscribers will be notified in their RSS readers with a direct link to view the context surrounding the comment as well. Give it a try!
Also, don’t waste anymore time checking back in on a blog to see if anyone responded to your comment. Now you can get email notifications of replies to your comments, letting you know when the conversation continues while you’re gone.
Structure
The Intense Debate comment system is built to enable conversation within the comment section. No longer do you have to try to follow the maze of conversations happening in the comments by means of “@ username” or “@ comment number”. With Intense Debate the comments are threaded, allowing you to reply directly to an individual comment. The replies are then indented at different levels to make it easier to follow the various conversations.
Profiles
With Intense Debate, a user can set up an avatar to be shown whenever they make a comment on every site we power. Also find out more about the other commenters around you. Every user has a menu button providing links to their blog(s), profiles on other websites, and rss feeds of their comments. It’s never been easier to connect with the other members of the conversation.
Reputation / Comment voting
Each user also has a reputation attached to their identity that is displayed whenever they make a comment. The reputation value serves as a quick overview of a commenter’s history and is based upon the quantity and quality of the comments a user makes. We determine the quality of a person’s comments through comment voting, which also serves to move the best comments to the top. Find the best content right away and bypass the “muck”.
Social traffic drive
When you make a comment on an Intense Debate comment system you are marketing yourself like no where else. We enable you to link to several major social sites you are a part of to give fellow readers an idea of who you are. You can also link back to your website, blog and your stream of RSS feeds. From a publisher standpoint, by allowing us to aggregate your comments Intense Debate can direct more traffic to your site, a high percentage of which is likely to participate in further commenting.
Widgets
Intense Debate provides three widgets a user can place on their site along with our comment system. The first is a user’s recent comments widget which displays the comments of a given user across all Intense Debate enabled sites. The next is a widget that displays the most recent comments on a given blog or site. And the final widget we provide is a top commenter widget which displays the most active users on a given blog as well as the users’ avatars and reputations.
- Jon
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