Channel Note

Germaine is disgruntled and grumpy

FYI

Some people commenting here have been getting hung up in moderation. So far, almost all of those people had lost their Disqus upvotes. I've been told that the situation is due to either hackers or to a mistake that Disqus made when fiddling around with the commenting platform. Regardless, the problem has persisted for a couple of months, and Disqus is unresponsive to my complaint about this that I submitted a couple of weeks ago. Just saying 'no time for a fix has been announced' is not responsive to my satisfaction.

When people lose their upvotes, their reputation is downgraded. When that happens, comments on other sites that use Disqus usually send the comment to moderation, sometimes marked as spam. Spam further damages reputations and puts everything into moderation. Moderators on most other sites either don't look at their moderation dashboard or they won't bother to make someone like me a  trusted user. Being a trusted user bypasses this problem.

Given the refusal of Disqus to fix the problem, maybe I'll try setting up a new Disqus account, maybe as Germaine II or something like that. I could also remove the Disqus comment plugin from this blog, but that probably would be the end of it as far as getting comments using the standard blogger comment system here.

That Disqus won't fix this is disqusting (disgusting). Grumble, grumble.