1) I don’t think JS-Kit and Disqus are even similar services (I haven’t seen JS-Kit comments used for building/linking communities. I don’t think it’s possible nor its purpose. Correct me if I’m wrong.) 2) We serve plenty more than 20 million impressions. 3) You are counting your entire arsenal of widgets, only one of which relates to commenting. 4) None of the major metrics indicate your monstrosity :) (compete, alexa, quantcast). Can you show me something?

Just wanted to clarify. :)

Of course if they click an internal link at all…

Disqus is a great investment because it could easily slot in to replace the comment system on Blogger that Google seem intent to just kill off.

But then again so could Haloscan which people have been using for 2 years… but the bloggers lose ownership of their comments, and it becomes a pig to migrate to another blogging platform with a useful comment system.

Disqus is pretty safe from spammers, who is going to go to the trouble of working out how to spam 4000 blogs?

SezWho is not a comment replacement system or a destination site and as such the graph with compete stats is completely misleading…Instead SezWho provide a context, rating and reputation service that leave the content and traffic at the site where it belongs.

For Disqus to be showing this graph demonstrates a complete lack of humility and understanding of community dynamics. They are showing that they are doing a great job of driving traffic away from the sites where are are supposed to he helping build community…I am not sure it really is something a service that provides community building tools should be showing.

SezWho does not drive page views away from the site every time there is a profile view or take away page rank/SEO juice away from a site. And we thik that is better way to build communities.

Jitendra (SezWho)

you’ve just expressed the killer app of comments

“want to turn intelligent comments into posts themselves, highlighting the efforts put forth by the commenters and thus making the blog truly collaborative.”

when a comment someone leaves here get to be the top post on techmeme, then we will have solved the problem.

i am betting on disqus to lead us there, but honestly if js-kit, sezwho, or intense debate gets us there instead, that will be fine with me too.

as I said in my post on disqus today, the comments on my blog are so damn good that it’s a shame they are stuck behind a comment link too few people click on.

fred

At a high level, a good commenting system may have these 3:

1. Spam management
2. Managing the content itself (approve/disapprove, alerts, etc.)
3. Visualization/Analytics (Who? How frequent? From where? connections?)

A lot is done on #1 and #2 but we still have to see a lot on #3. I would love to see the same visualization on people and their content –very similar to what we see on pure web data. There are a few WordPress plugins which do a bit of visualization but the field at large is still green.

my 2 cents…

In addition to Comments, JS-Kit offers Ratings, Navigator, Reviews and Polls and we have much more in the works, including a user profile that will immediately blow away what’s currently available and a binary (up/down) alternative to 5-star ratings. As Indus points out, the Compete data is misleading since, like SezWho, we don’t compete for eyeballs on js-kit.com.

oh… and congrats to Disqus!

Eric eric at js-kit.com

Good points you make. That said, we should talk about your ideal commenting system. Why don’t you kick it off and we can take it from there. Thanks in advance for jump starting the conversation.

Best

Since the comment data stays in its original platform (WordPress, MT, etc.), SezWho does not generate any new traffic for itself. Instead, the cross-linkage between various blog posts gets increased click thrus without touching SezWho.

More and more, the blog posts and the comments are becoming increasingly important — giving it away or letting someone else benefit (read, PageRank, SEO, etc.) from it does not make an iota of sense.

I still don’t understand why would someone use disqus when gurus behind WordPress, MT, etc. have a very solid commenting system!

My 2 cents, would love to see some “discussion” around it.