The logistics of Disqus compelling reason still not found

After an interesting appeal to use Disqus, a comment management system for blogs, from AVC, sure I’ll go take a look and see what the hoopla is about. Then start coming up with problems on the reasons why I probably will not use it.

The biggest downside is that there will be two places to go to work with comments.

I have been using the WordPress comments for years, I’ll use the home page to write, screen comments, and see who has linked to me lately. This is where I am used to doing all the work for my blog, getting updates, reading stuff. I can get to here from anywhere without worrying about anyone blocking me from getting there. It has been this way for years.

This is where by using the Disqus admin page I would have to go now to do all my comments. Mind you I average .5 comments per blog entry. The compelling reason to pull comments off and drop them into another system is if my work blocked access to my WordPress comments section, or I had a ton of comments to plow through, there might be some work flow benefit here.

But in the mean time, it might be the greatest system in the world, but probably a low comment blog like techwag does not need it, a blog writer who can get to anything anywhere probably does not need it.

Here is the only compelling reason I could think of to use it, and where it might be handy.

You can basically “off shore” your comments without exposing all your blog login credentials. This is a good thing, if you want to outsource comment management, you can make someone an account here and have them do all the work.

For blogs with tons of comments, this might be a good thing, for everyone else, probably not all that compelling a reason to use the system. While it might be bright and shiny, off site management of comments and pushing all your comments to someplace else might make sense for a system that is overloaded, cranky, don’t want to deal with comments anyways. For people who want to push comments off someplace else and let another social network handle it, sure, makes sense.

For everyone else outside of the top 1000 blogs on the planet, this does not really make a lot of sense to do. If your audience is a highly trafficked blog, there are so very few of them that for everyone else, it makes sense to stick to what is already available to you in your blog of choice platform.

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