Disqus

I can't even give a one word response on the ABC site. I would say more, but word might get back to them that I've been complaining.

Not sure what the problem is, but on news sites anyways, Disqus can't seem to handle more than three people leaving comments at the same time. You can spend minutes trying to leave a brief comment; the page jumps all over the place; the comment won't show up; as you're typing, a word in the second half of a sentence will suddenly appear at the beginning of it... annoying as all get out. I could understand the inability of any platform to handle hundreds or even thousands of comments coming at the same time, but like I said - it happens when just a few are commenting.

Another issue involves "word policing" and "policy violation". Often, words that are seen in headlines and stories can't be used in comments. Often, comments that don't violate stated policy whatsoever will get deleted. Disqus claims that none of this is its fault, that site owners make the rules and do the moderation, yet site reps have told me that Disqus is in charge of those things, so I don't know who to believe. Heck, in one comment in this thread, someone praises Disqus because she and moderators can ban people, like it's her reason for living. At any rate, I don't recommend Disqus. Imagine trying to have a conversation with someone who acts distracted, keeps cutting you off, keeps interrupting, keeps telling you to wait, negates what you're saying, etc.? That person would be rude, and in this instance, that "person" is Disqus.

Disqus claims to have "great" discussions on their home based "channel" system. While that may be true of some channels that exist, be aware as a possible commenter, that the moderation and operation of these channels is entirely at the behest of volunteer, unpaid NON employee Disqus channel " owners" and "moderators". On some of these channels, anything goes, and a commenter should be prepared for a somewhat jarring and rude experience, as many of these channels are populated by trolling commenters and sock accounts. Any commenter could be banned from any these channels by any " owner" or "moderator" for posting the most innocuous of comments. Or, for simply being friendly with whatever is the "wrong" clique, as perceived by the CO or moderators. Disqus takes a "hands off" approach to the management of these channels, leaving what happens to those that " own" and "moderate" the channels. Apparently, Disqus is just interested in the numbers these channels pull in, not in facilitating "discussions". Let's not forget to mention all of the drama that has existed for what appears to be a decade between a certain faction of commenters that clutter up many channels and threads on Disqus.And, monopolize many of these "discussions" with their silly feud. If you're looking to have serious discussions, or even to just have some fun, choose your Disqus channels very wisely. Otherwise, you'll find Disqus to be quite the frustrating experience...

The main problem with Disqus is that they allow the trolls to overrun a site to annoy the other posters, call them names, and shut down the conversation. Trolls seem to have no life other than to prove how annoying they can be and overwhelm any opposing views.

In the last few days Disqus logs me out and I have to re-login each day. Their system offers no support.

I do not have any special experience with Disqus. I somehow joined then a year of two ago and forgot about it. They are holding a half dozen of my comments and seem to be set up a little similar to Facebook-(a little manipulative): no way to really communicate with them, no way to really control the comments you leave scattered across the web, no way to search their own discussion forum, and although they seem to have a strong set of stated values, the way those values are executed is another matter.
I saw some indication that whoever is permitted to become a moderator, sometimes abuses the responsibility of that position, by arbitrarily injecting their personal prejudices into the discussions, or by banning someone from using the service, again somewhat arbitrarily. I, myself, have not experienced that, but perhaps I will put up a test balloon and see what happens.
We should all be bound by the same rules and standards, and if any group has an ax to grind, then they themselves should be called out. We are all in it together and need to use the 'golden rule' if we want cyberspace to be a decent 'neighborhood'. If we allow it to be a fractious pile of discord, we will harvest what we plant.

What company doesn't have a customer service phone number to call and speak to a human to help resolve ongoing issues?! It doesn't matter how many times I try to explain that the "reply in email" feature is not working, and how many times can "support" reply that I can simply go on-line to approve comments. Step, repeat. Step, repeat. We just keep going around in circles.

They continually point out Trump's false statements, which is unnecessary. We can all listen to Trump babble lies all day long. Nobody needs reminding of his stench... https://www.metro.us/president-trump/trump-lies-hit-the-5000-count-experts-say-theyre-accelerating... https://www.metro.us/president-trump/trump-lies-hit-the-5000-count-experts-say-theyre-accelerating.

I cant seem to log into disqus. Server not found

I have two Disqus accounts. Each is connected to a different email address. As I tend to stay logged in on sites that use Disqus, I forgot my passwords. Today I found that I had been logged out on one of my frequented sites. I went to Disqus to ask a question and found that in order to ask a question, I have to KNOW my password. I then requested a password reset email twice, finally got one 20 minutes later, and read "expired" when I tired to use it. I then request another password reset and got, "down for maintenance". I finally decided to delete my Disqus accounts and found that you cant do that - without a password. This is like hell, a needless, endless circle of pain. I can't log in, I can't reset my password, and I can't close my accounts. Maybe contacting my state attorney general would do something?

I wrote in one of my reviews that there possibly could not be a way that review sites would get lower than Yelp.com, GlassDoor, and Indeed.com. Well, Disqus topped them all.

If the troll is an employer? Oh, hell yeah. Disqus will back that troll up 100% and delete your post for calling them out.

At Indeed.com, there was an male administrator who literally trolling under several names. Posing as 5 or 6 females, and about 2 or 3 other male personalities. How Indeed allowed that is beyond me. On that forum i had posted a link to another website stating that employees should be able to voice their opinions there.

Sure enough, here comes the radiology director of Harris Health Systems in Houston, TX. This time he used the pseudonym "Dimples". If you go on Linked In to check him out, and if you can see past all that blubber - you'll see he has Dimples.

He went in on the attack on the OTHER website, and ripped into my post about what's it's really like to work as a sonography in the medical field.

"Negative A**" was one of the few choice words he used.

Just so people won't buy into the "dream job" of working in sonography? It's not "challenging and rewarding" - it's a business. The Hospital administrators are only after one thing. Their year-end bonuses. How they obtain those bonuses? Overworking personnel, low pay, day and night, long shifts, having them on call for $1.50 an hour while on pager, etc. Having them called in for non-emergencies because the ER physician doesn't have the balls to tell a patient and their family: "No you can't call the tech out in the middle of the night because you didn't get baby pics while you were getting your ultrasound at the doctor's office." Yes, folks. There are people that do this constantly. And sonographers do not get paid that well on call to begin with.

All of a sudden here comes that director name calling, and belittling. I didn't have a problem with that but i ID'd him, and called him on his crap. And sure enough, him being an employer? He hit that report button. And Disqus deleted my post.

I found it so interesting, that when i researched Disqus. Since Donald Trump has been running for president, the racist trolls have gone crazy on that website. They use the "N" word, making racial threats to members, calling people monkeys, gorillas, anything that comes to their small minds. Anyone hits that report button - Disqus doesn't do anything.

But say something to an employer that gets butt-hurt? Disqus will delete that post faster than Donald Trump can say "Grab her by the p***y"!

A cool concept, but the features they advertise on their blog are not working.