IntenseDebate would like to congratulate Paul Kedrosky on receiving the Silver Medal for the best financial blog from Pensions & Investments. If you’re not familiar with Paul’s blog, Infectious Greed, be sure to check it out and subscribe. Check out the full story here.
Congrats Paul!
-The Fellas at IntenseDebate
Posted by Michael Koenig in News
It’s an ongoing conversation within the IntenseDebate community: who owns your comments, blog publishers or commenters? Before we continue, we’d like to acknowledge Hank Williams’ post and Daniel Ha’s post addressing this issue. As this topic extends beyond IntenseDebate, we’ve reached out to the team at Disqus to work on creating a common groundwork for comment ownership across platforms.
Who do you think should own your comments?
Currently the debate is taking place on several IntenseDebate fronts (Get Satisfaction, blogs, emails) and it’s getting time to start making some decisions. Everything we do at IntenseDebate has you in mind, including this decision. We need your input. Of course, we realize that we’re not going to come to a unanimous decision here – “you can’t please all the people all the time” – but the goal is to get close and find a comfortable solution. So let us know your thoughts.
To get the ball rolling we want to propose three options:
1.) Blog Publisher Ownership – Comments made on a blog belong to the blog owner, giving them the ability to edit the comments as they see fit (deleting and editing comments). Blog owners have had this ability with WordPress and other platforms. The only change is that comments are now tied to the commenter in IntenseDebate (which is why there is even a debate here).
2.) Commenter Ownership – Comments cannot be edited by blog publishers. Comments can still be deleted by blog publishers – blog owners must be able to remove spam and inflammatory comments. Commenters can still access their full comment history in their IntenseDebate profiles. Commenters can take their comments with them into platforms other than the blog commented on.
3.) Shared Ownership – This is where it gets complicated and we try to reach a compromise. We’re proposing that blog publishers should have the ability to edit and delete comments as long as the original comment is accessible both on the edited comment and in the commenter’s comment history. If the blog owner edits the comment, then the commenter will receive a notification and have the ability to delete the comment. The commenter will be able to access their full comment history.
We’re sure there are specific stipulations that we’re leaving out that should be included, but we’re trying to keep this post to a reasonable length. Ideally we’d like your opinion on which option you find the most appealing. Then we can start hashing out the specifics. Please vote in the poll below and of course, comment away!
Posted by Michael Koenig in News
We’ve released some great features in the past weeks – Lijit integration, Reply-By-Email, Twitter, Me.dium and Orkut integration – and we’ve got more on the way. It seems that people have taken some notice. Yesterday, Jon Fox (co-founder & CTO of IntenseDebate) and Tom Keller (CEO IntenseDebate) joined Leo Laporte and Amber MacArthur on Net@Night to chat about IntenseDebate. You can check out the podcast here to learn about the roots of IntenseDebate and some of the features to come.
Brad Feld also gave IntenseDebate some much appreciated blog love early this morning (5:44am). Honestly I don’t think he sleeps.
IntenseDebate was also featured in the Mashable post, “Head to Head: 4 Tools For Improving Comments On Your Blog.” Be sure to check that out as well!
Posted by Michael Koenig in News
Here at Intense Debate, customer support and feedback are both extremely important to us. As such we’re happy to announce that we’ve switched to a new system for our forums. We’ll now be using Satisfaction as our forum system for customer support, feedback, or just to talk about Intense Debate. It offers many advantages and we hope it will provide a better experience to our users when trying to find answers to their questions or leave feedback to help us improve our comment system. We’ll still keep the old forums around though in case anyone prefers that or wants to see past discussions. Please give it a try and let us know how you feel about it.
We’ve got several new things we’ve rolled out today. Probably the first thing you’ll notice is this blog’s redesign. This new look matches the rest of our site better and puts a new shine on this blog.
Another recent update is to the forums. We’ve done several changes to help speed up the load time as well as offer new options for sorting to make it easier to find what you’re looking for. You can expect to see these sorting options rolled out to blogs shortly.
And finally, a few things you may or may not notice are several bug fixes that have been released. The issues with comments that couldn’t be found to be deleted as well as some issues with multiple posts should be resolved among others.
As always, feel free to give us your feedback in the forums or by email (contactus@intensedebate.com).
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