What Has Gone Wrong With Disqus?

So I can remember in the past the odd day when things went pear shaped 

but it seems to be every day now constantly having to log in ,the darn it sign 

taking ages to upvote a comment and I could go on.Of course I could be posting on 

discuss disqus but in another great move they made the cheese woman a mod 

who bans everyone.

The biggest joke is apparently Zeta are looking into the problem of the downvoting 

it's only been going on for a year now,I'm hoping they might find a solution in the 

next couple of years but I won't be holding my breath.Maybe Zeta should just sell 

the company to someone who knows what they are doing or employ some new 

people who know what they are doing.

History Buffs: Casino

How accurate was the film "Casino"

Adopt Some Pets And We Will Give You A Celebrity Friend To Hangout With This Weekend

https://www.buzzfeed.com/rheakurien/pick-a-bunch-of-cute-pets-and-well-tell-you-which-1pgpwsur30

Choose Some Food And We Will Guess Your Zodiac Sign

Your destiny is written in the stars. Or is it in the pizza?

https://www.buzzfeed.com/hayleybe24/pick-some-food-and-well-guess-your-zodiac-sign-5ae25u4kjh

My internet is fucked up and 80s music

Bad weather may be to blame for shitty internet reception in my part of the North country of the U.S. 

While I am trying to get my internet working properly, as in not stalling every 30 seconds, I am listening to 80s music. 

It's like the on-hold line music. What do you think of when you hear, "80s music?" 

Were you alive in the 80s? What 80s songs represent the 80s for you?

For me, the 80s were a mixed bag from punk to funk, to hard rock to pop-rock. 

1984...."Like a Virgin" by Madonna 

The entire "Footloose" soundtrack.....

Deniece Williams - Let's Hear It for the Boy [Footloose 1984]

The anthem of my life in the 80s.......

Prince "Let's Go Crazy"....

Impulse - Ep 1 "Pilot"

I've just come across this show on Youtube. It's on the premier channel but the 

episodes are free,it's one of the best shows I've seen for a long time,absolutely 

gripping,I'm on Ep.5 at the moment.

President Trumps Speech to U.N.

Trump has definitely put the cat among the pigeons with this speech.

FIRST DAY OF AUTUMN

Disco till you die....

Thanks to Thomas for the inspiration for the 70s Disco thread. 

A still from Saturday Night Fever (Bee Gees, You Should be Dancing) John Travolta HD 1080 with Lyrics. 

Do you remember Disco? Did you want Disco to die? Did you rollerskate to Disco music? Post your Disco stories. 

QUESTION TIME.

1.Why are all the candidates for the leader of the Democrat party so rubbish and does this
mean Trump is a certainty to win the next election?
2.Why are people so obsessed with ER, are they secretly jealous of her?
3.Is the Premier league title race between Manchester City and Liverpool again?
4. Have any new people come to the blogs that were not on the channel system?
5. Will Michiko ever come back now she has left for the 300th time.
6.Which type of threads would people like to see on this blog?
7.Why doesn't God get his finger out and try and save the planet?
8.Why has the cheese woman banned every one from the remaining disqus channel?
9.Is war with Iran inevitable?
10.Should JJ be given another chance or should he be consigned to history?

How the hell can I get this attention whore to stop humping my leg?

For years a commenter known as Shep has been stalking and harassing me on Disqus. He is the worst attention whore online. The moron can't take a fucking clue that I don't like him and I don't want anything to do with his obsessed pathetic ass.

For years he has followed me and stalked me on Disqus. I have told him for years to stop stalking me and stop following me on Disqus. He can't take a hint and when I blocked him he made several sock accounts and a Disqus channel to harass me.

I told him to stay the hell away from me and he keeps posting stupid shit to me. For real, he is obsessed.

You can look for yourself at this thread, https://disqus.com/home/discussion/thegreatoutdoorsman/a_chat_with_mat/

World's first vagina museum to open in London

Hey Paul, are you going to check this out? “Vagina Museum to open in November” story from, https://www.ktvz.com/news/national-world/worlds-first-vagina-museum-to-open-in-london/1123247075

(CNN) - The first museum in the world dedicated solely to the vagina will open in London in November, after a crowdfunding campaign raised almost £50,000 (about $62,000).

The Vagina Museum will educate visitors about vulvas and vaginas while challenging the prevailing stigma surrounding them, development and marketing manager Zoe Williams told CNN.

Founder Florence Schechter developed the concept for the Vagina Museum after discovering a museum dedicated to penises in Iceland, the Icelandic Phallological Museum, but no counterpart for vaginas. Schechter and her team subsequently launched a campaign on Crowdfunder, initially aiming to raise £300,000.

"As this is the world's first bricks-and-mortar museum dedicated to vaginas, vulvas and the gynaecological anatomy, we didn't quite know what to expect in terms of interest, and were delighted with the £50,000 we raised," Williams said.

The museum will open on November 16 in a temporary location in London's Camden Market, with an exhibition entitled "Muff Busters: Vagina Myths and How to Fight Them." The exhibition will challenge "pervasive myths" about the vagina and vulva, Williams said, "such as that vaginas and vulva need to be cleaned through the use of bespoke feminine cleaning products; however, the vagina is completely self cleaning."

Comedy and theater events, craft workshops and educational talks will take place at the museum, she said, which will help to raise funds for a permanent location. The museum's mission statement asserts that it will also "act as a forum for feminism, women's rights, the LGBT+ community and the intersex community," "challenge heteronormative and cisnormative behaviour" and "promote intersectional, feminist and trans-inclusive values."

"We want to give everyone the confidence to talk about a perfectly normal part of the anatomy," Williams explained, citing a study from cancer research charity The Eve Appeal that found 65% of young women and girls in the UK struggled to use the words "vagina" or "vulva."

"There's nothing shameful or offensive about vulvas and vaginas," she said. "They're a part of the body that should be celebrated!"

This is some unbelievable shit

I get this comment in my Disqus feed, 

This commenter, https://disqus.com/by/ilovehorses22/, blamed me for her comments being removed. I didn't remove her comments but she is so flakey that she thinks I did it. It's impossible because I am not a moderator at the site her comments were removed. I had nothing to do with it but Jessica is so angry and hateful she blames me for something I had nothing to do with. 

The trainwreck of trolls is bitching about this, https://disqus.com/home/discussion/covert-paul/covert_paul_banned_from_the_only_channel_remaining_disqus_disqus/#comment-4622005653

I have never seen such a group of delusional paranoid losers in one space before.

This is funny as fuck. Geezus and his group of crony bitches and whine ad nauseam about downvotes, when they are the ones downvoting. You can't get more fucked up than this.

For real, why are these people so fucked up? 

Is Disqus dying?

Are blog owners and commenters moving away from Disqus? Today, I've been having problems viewing comments on Disqus. A real fucking pain in the ass.

An interesting article on why people are switching away from Disqus,  Switching Away from Disqus Review – Increased Comments by 304%

We switched away from Disqus about 2 months ago. Many of you noticed this change and asked us to write a Disqus review explaining why did we switch. After using Disqus for about a year, we noticed several drawbacks that forced us to switch back to WordPress comments. In this Disqus review, we will highlight the reasons why we switched and how it helped increase our comments by 304%.

We started using Disqus in April 2014. We switched away several months ago. We really appreciate your patience and our apologies for taking so long to write about this. We know several of you have been asking about why we switched away from Disqus, so here goes our final Disqus review.

Why Did We Switch away from Disqus?
There were several reasons why we switched away from Disqus.

Inserting Affiliate Links without Permission

Disqus offers publishers ability to earn little extra $$ if you enable Promoted Discovery which shows sponsored stories in the related posts section that Disqus can add.

Since we didn’t want any advertisement from them, we had all the settings unchecked.

However we accidentally ran into what they called a “bug” where Disqus was inserting affiliate links in our blog post content without our permission.

Basically Disqus has a partnership with Viglink which looks through your content and change any link that they’re partnered with to an affiliate link.

We caught this when we noticed Viglink referring sales to OptinMonster from our site WPBeginner. How ironic since both of them are our sites. Hmmm.

After looking into it, we reported the problem to Disqus which they fixed and called it a “bug”.

We were quite disappointed in the way this was handled. We’re not sure how much money Disqus made through this affiliate-injection bug, and how widespread was this. There was no public disclosure announcement about this, and we definitely didn’t get any $$ credit for advertising that they were placing on our site for who knows how long.

That just left a bad taste in the mouth.

For more details on the bug, you can see our video here.

Sponsored Comments

We learned about this through our friend Michael Hyatt when he noticed sponsored comments showing up on his site without his permission.

He reported that you can’t opt-out without assistance from Disqus Support team.

So we reached out to Disqus for an official response regarding this issue.

They confirmed that there was no easy way for an individual to opt-out without reaching out to their support team. Since there were specific criteria for Sponsored Comments, most users will not be affected by this.

Great! As if fighting spam comments weren’t hard enough already, now we have to keep an eye out for Disqus and quickly reach out to them if they enable sponsored comments on our site. No thanks.

Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress sums it up the best in his response to the Disqus announcement: “It’s not comment spam if we’re getting paid for it!”

Note: during this sponsored comments fiasco, we discovered a setting that’s auto-enabled for cookie tracking. It’s located in the “Advanced” settings tab. Make sure you disable it if you’re using Disqus.

Significant Decrease in Comment Engagement

When we enabled Disqus, few readers complained that Disqus makes it harder for guest commenting. Since Disqus was being widely used across several top sites, we didn’t pay huge attention to those complaints.

Overtime, our comment engagement dropped significantly. After disabling Disqus, we saw our users starting to leave more comments. Since the change, we’ve noticed our comments increased by 304%.

Moderation Interface

We were quite excited about the new moderation interface when we switched, but as we used it more, it wasn’t something our editors liked.

Note: This is completely a personal preference, and we’re there are other users who love the Disqus interface.

What we will miss about Disqus?
While we didn’t like some of Disqus’ business practices, there were few things we will surely miss about the platform.

Scalability and Site Performance

Comments are very resource intensive. If you have a lot of comments on a post, then it will take a long time to load.

If a lot of users are leaving comments at the same time, then it would also impact your server load. The advantage of using a third-party commenting system like Disqus was that you shave that server load off from yours and send it their way.

Even if your site is getting attacked by a malicious user, it won’t impact your server because it has to go through Disqus first. (Note: This is only true, if you have disabled Comment Sync).

Redundancy

The best part about Disqus was that comments were stored on a third-party database which is extremely helpful with redundancy. We’ll definitely miss this.

For now if we ever have to do fail-over, we will simply disable comments until our main servers are back. Although not ideal, this is the simplest option that we have.

What’s Next?
For now, we’re using the default WordPress comments interface. In the past, we’ve tried Disqus and Livefyre, but we have made our way back to WordPress comments because it just seems like the best overall option available.

We’re definitely considering using De:Comments, a WordPress commenting plugin that we reviewed earlier.

The other option is to power up the native WordPress comments with a suite of other functionality plugins like Subscribe to Comments, Reply Notifications, Simple Comment Editing, and possibly few more.

We hope this review explained why we switched away from Disqus. We really appreciate your patience and our apologies for taking so long to write about this. We know several of you have been asking about this change.

If you liked this article, then please subscribe to our YouTube Channel for WordPress video tutorials. You can also find us on Twitter and Facebook.

Sinead O'Conner Claims Prince Tried 'To Beat Her Up'

Singer Sinead O'Connor joins GMB to discuss her recent conversion to Islam,as
well as her most famous song,Nothing Compares 2U,which was written by Prince.
Sinead claims the pair did not get along with each other and says that Prince even 
tried to 'beat her up'when she refused his request to not swear during interviews.

Banned from the only channel remaining, Disqus Disqus

When Disqus removed the channel system they left one channel remaining, Disqus Disqus. This is supposed to be the channel that Disqus commenters can go to and get help with technical issues about Disqus. The butthurt mod there, CaliCheeseSucks has banned me because she doesn't like me. I wonder if Disqus knows that they have a vindictive mod who bans commenters out of spite. How am I supposed to get help with tech issues if I am banned? I think a letter of complaint will be sent to Disqus about this. 

Are you banned at Disqus Disqus? 

My comments have been saved, on a database on a server, by stalker trolls

For real, what the hell? 

Open thread for whatever the fuck. 

Father John Misty, "The Ideal Husband"

WARNING

No more warning as apology accepted,it was a one off incident,that I don't expect to be repeated.

OPEN THREAD

I'm always going off topic,so open threads are good for me.
One thing I've noticed is many of the blogs are still being run along the same lines
as the channels by power mad mods like the the Duke of ass-holes who banned me
yesterday for making a statement of fact.
I'm not bothered about being banned I've had enough of ass-hole moderation,if you
don't want me on your blog, who cares,lots more blogs to go round.
I tried to comment on coccyx's thread because I feel sorry for people who put in all
that effort to get just 10 comments a thread,(I'm not talking about you DTX) but I'm
still banned there.
I think I've been banned by the old man and obsessed stalker Wishin,like I want to
go to his shit hole anyway.

So post about anything you like.

I have been threatened to unban the commenter known as Shep

Well, this is interesting. The commenter known as "Wishin" has threatened me again. He told me to unban Shep. "And while you're at it, unban Shep, or just say screw it all and enjoy Your regrets, I know I will." 

SUNDAY DINNER

Sunday dinner was all always a special occasion in my family,not so much now days.
Sunday is very much a family day for many people even now but times have changed and for many people Sunday is just a normal day of the week,but I still like the traditional British Sunday roast.
It really pleased me the other week one of my uncles and one of my cousins had been off doing some Army business and hadn't had a Sunday dinner for a while.
The first thing they said to me when they came to stay the other weekend was are you cooking 
a Sunday dinner(they know I'm a good cook) and it came out perfect and they really enjoyed it, which really pleased me.
We also had several bottles of red wine.
So do you cook something special on a Sunday or is it just another day for you?

Way the hell off target with She Dong and Stan

She Dong is currently operating in a submarine off the coast of Korea and is not available to comment at this time.
Hello everyone.Stan here again.I am just sitting here not contributing or writing for a blog.
Paul has an awesome Blog and She Dong is very happy with his progress in spreading free speech and thought while having a laugh.
So in my ultimate wisdom at close to 50 years old I thought starting wrestling with other grown men would be a good idea.It was fun and I did learn much more about fighting than I ever knew before.
Also trying to overpower and choke other grown men while they try and do the same to you is lots of fun.
Until you run into the guy who twists your shoulder where it was not supposed to go.
So fast forward to the chiropractic office and the Dr with all his voodoo bone stuff and treatments.
The Dr was a very nice man and seemed very knowledgeable.
I have been to other chiropractors before so I thought this would not be a big deal.I was wrong.
So I am face down on the table and as he plays "mood music"while rubbing my spine and counting bones and making comments about my ribs and other assorted boney things....Then Blammo...Two fingers almost in my asshole. Like right above my asshole(of course I am fully clothed,so it's even weirder than you are thinking)
He goes back and counts vertebrae and shit...Then Blammo again...Right above my asshole as the jazzy mood music fills the room with the blue shades over the lights....
He did not pop my back or neck....My shoulder still hurts and the pain is shooting down my elbow....
And let me tell you how uppity and arrogant my asshole has got sense it got all the attention.
Sometimes even an asshole is an asshole..
It was my first visit...so I had to pay extra for the mood lighting..
Do you guys think that was a wise investment?
Should I go back?
Has your asshole ever acted stuck up?

WAY OFF TOPIC WITH SHE DONG AND STAN

Hello blog readers and welcome to Paul's blog.It's a very nice blog and Paul has very 
nice hair. I will be posting a picture before the end of the thread so stay tuned.
This is the random comments and off topic discussion with the worlds #1 advocate for 
free speech...SHE DONG.
She dong is a free speech operative currently active somewhere on the Korean 
peninsula. She is not ready to comment at this time.
So here is the channel system...GONE....
With all the bans I got from the Disqus free channels and 79 cents I can buy a small 
cup of coffee ....That's how much all those bans mean now.
Lets not forget the important part...STAN IS STILL HERE....same profile...same 
e-mail address...still ranting about silly things while he pokes fun at your version of 
reality.Here is the funniest part...I don't have a blog.I did not really make this post.I 
am neither a moderator or a contributor on this blog....
I AM STAN.................MOTHERFUCKERS.....your silly rules don't apply to me.
So yea...Paul looks like he has the best blog(and I mean the beat moderation)
available to me at this moment in time.
So here we go ...Let's have some fun at Paul's blog...and let's compliment his nice hair...
I mean...really....that's a full head of hair.

What's Off Topic,Doc?

This is a thread CU asked me to make and she is going to do things with it.I don't know exactly what it's going to be about,the clue maybe in the headline.

Banned Camp

No this isn't banned camp.
I thought once we all started going to blogs,things would be a little bit more informal and people wouldn't be so trigger happy,but I'm being banned for the most stupid things and have been pre-banned on blogs I've never posted on and by people whose channels I've never posted on,what is everybody so scared of.
Obviously there are still the sadists out there who love to insult people but are scared of getting it back.
Yes I've had to ban a few people on my blog for targeted harassment of some of my mods,but I'm happy for people to have a chance to say what they want to say before any consideration of banning and because of my low rep every time I go to a new site I'm in pending.
So what are your experiences have you been banned yet.

'My Husband Has Now Become My Wife'

After eleven years of marriage and two children ,Kelly Allen thought she had the perfect family unit.
But after finding someone else's lipstick in the glove department of her husbands Warren's van,
she came to the unpleasant conclusion that he was having an affair. But her suspicions could not
have been further from the truth, Warren wasn't seeing another woman...he was the other woman.
A secret he had suppressed for years ,Warren finally came clean and to his surprise and delight,
Kelly didn't leave him. In fact,the couple are planning to renew their vows and are looking forward
to their future together as woman and wife.

Calling JOS

I've just been watching some JOS video's and know he plans to make a farewell video.
I just thought it would be nice if he could post it here,not on the channel system but it would probably get a bit more coverage than just being on his Youtube channel and if he wanted to make some farewell comments that would be good also.So if any one is in contact with JOS, would you let him know.Of course I understand if he couldn't be bothered.