Oh, Yeah! I said it!

Your eyes are not deceiving you because I do believe that Comment Spammers are directly encouraged by bloggers driven by a desperation to get activity on their blogs.

I have no plans to lay the blame here but instead encourage those just starting with the wonderful form of online publishing that blogging has become to stay strong and resist the urge to approve those few first comments on your new, shiny blog.

SezWho was a start up that was different from other reputation management systems in a way that it allowed you to rate comments and also build your consistent reputation across multiple platforms, all the while allowing you keep comments local to your blog.

This was one feature that made me an early adopter but looks like its gone. It appears SezWho was sold out and by March 31st it will be gone from my blog, after painful migration of all the features to native comments system…

I have been using SezWho universal profile service on my WordPress blog for a while now and I love the options they provide. Well, as everything else develops – these guys just came out with KILLER enhancements. I know that with announcement of Automattic acquiring Intense Debate it might be a choice you need to make yourself later but I love the options SezWho provides!

Acquisition of Intense Debate start-up by Automattic has ended the argument of comment management for WordPress, at least in my mind.  While I have to admit – Intense Debate wouldn’t have been my own personal choice as I prefer to keep all comments local, choice by Automattic ends the arguments…

And allow me explain why, with examples….

Brians Threaded Comments Plugin is perhaps the most popular among the WordPress blog users due to functionality it provides and a huge enhancement to standard comments system that comes with WordPress. Problem is – the plugin is Not Well Supported and has quite a few bugs.

In fact if you simply decide to use what is provided you will run into quite a few issues and since the plugin is hard to customize if you are not a programmer it might be more problems then one can handle. Well fear not – I have spent a few hours of researching, fixing and testing and want to present you with resulting file. Now you too can have Brians Threaded Comments on your blog, minus all the issues…