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I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse

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Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse

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Post by D13Fd »

tcfhgj wrote: post #71
mrweasel wrote: post #63

Other than the volume, one of the issues I have with these types of ads is that you're rarely able to report them as scams. Reddit have a similar issue. You can report an ad, but you have to pick "Other", there's no: "This ad is clearly a scam". That's by design obviously, because by removing the scams, most of the ad networks are left with very little inventory. Certainly not enough to fund all the ad supported serv…

almost every ad is a scam, telling lies directly or indirectly maximizing what is within the legal bounds.

Come on. There is a massive difference between an ad that optimistically emphasizes the best aspects of a real product or service and an ad for a fake product or service that will take your money and leave you with essentially nothing.

Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse

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Post by codazoda »

huijzer wrote: post #30

I just can't be bothered to have comments on my site. It adds nothing but headaches. Cross-posting articles to HN or Reddit for comments is a much nicer way, I think.

I use HN a fair amount. I often post articles here but I also feel bad about doing it because 1 or 2 upvotes makes me feel like maybe it doesn't belong. I think it might be good to cross post everything here and link to the HN comments for discussion. Is this frowned on at all? I always worry I'll get shadow banned or something for my 100 low vote posts. Here's the rule I worry about:

> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse

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Post by niutech »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #77
notRobot wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This has disadvantages though! Often the threads on sites like HN/reddit get "archived" or lose traction and you cannot join the discussion if you don't happen to discover the article in the first few days of it getting published. In blogs people can come along anytime and use comments to add additional information/context/perspectives, point out misunderstandings or outdated information, share updates, pose question…

Counterpoint, blog posts age; information or opinion from 10 years ago may no longer be accurate or reflect the author's held beliefs. Is it still worth discussing it then? That said, I run old fashioned forums and some older threads get revived there from time to time with new insights. Others get flagged up by copyright holders under DMCA takedown threats or bumped by spambots though.

Not necessarily 10 years ago, you cannot comment on a HN post even from a month ago!

Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse

#94

Post by mrweasel »

lupusreal wrote: post #70
mrweasel wrote: post #63

Other than the volume, one of the issues I have with these types of ads is that you're rarely able to report them as scams. Reddit have a similar issue. You can report an ad, but you have to pick "Other", there's no: "This ad is clearly a scam". That's by design obviously, because by removing the scams, most of the ad networks are left with very little inventory. Certainly not enough to fund all the ad supported serv…

The ad industry likes to say that their industry is clean and the people who buy ads for scams are the problem, but the truth is the entire industry is complicit with the scamming, and stuff like this shows it. If the ad industry were merely hapless victims of the scammers, rather than willful participants in the scamming, they'd be eager to receive reports of scams.

That's a really good point. If the problem is the scammers, and they buy ads, then why won't they let us report it?

Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse

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Post by Shugyousha »

abdullahkhwaja wrote: post #53

I have an email address for comments at the bottom of my blog posts. If they can write me an email and it's something that contributes to the discussion, I'll include it in a comments section at the bottom of the post. For bigger discussions, cross-post to social is the way to go.

I like the idea of linking to a public inbox (i.e. an email inbox whose contents can be checked from the web).

That grants people an easy way to discuss content and to check any prior discussion, if any.

Something like https://lists.sr.ht/~shugyousha/public-inbox for example.

Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse

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Post by 63stack »

D13Fd wrote: post #91
tcfhgj wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

almost every ad is a scam, telling lies directly or indirectly maximizing what is within the legal bounds.

Come on. There is a massive difference between an ad that optimistically emphasizes the best aspects of a real product or service and an ad for a fake product or service that will take your money and leave you with essentially nothing.

Yes there is a massive difference, you are correct. Also, most of the ads do not fall into that category.

Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse

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Post by snthd »

dspillett wrote: post #74
huijzer wrote: post #30

I just can't be bothered to have comments on my site. It adds nothing but headaches. Cross-posting articles to HN or Reddit for comments is a much nicer way, I think.

I like https://github.com/tessalt/echo-chamber-js - it is basically a global shadow-ban for everyone who comments…

Data protection by design and by default.

Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse

#98

Post by pwillia7 »

I was so hopeful for Cactus.chat built on matrix, but like all products built on the matrix protocol, you have to follow their mantra of being unusable and undiscoverable. The main page for cactus chat even quit hosting the JS file and none of the maintainers think that's a problem lol.

Still a cool comments product and I still use it on my blog.

https://cactus.chat/

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