Is there anywhere we can go to learn this new stuff? I commented on Halimas' thread and frankly, because of formatting, I wish I hadn't.

There are different rules about blockquoting and bolding within a blockquote, at least I think there is. There also seems to be a different arrangement for closing off a blockquote.

If you care to look at my comment, forgetting the purpose, the thing is a Grauniad like disaster.

Could you point everybody in the right direction?

Now a 3rd party, who I know very little about has my details and perhaps records of all our comments. This 3rd party will also, presumably, have the same from thousands of other bogs. Are they now the comment repository for blogs?

Does this not mean that if anyone wanted to harvest a particular contributors comments they only need to go to one source?

I don't know Disqus, I know you. I don't wish to give my details and thoughts to Disqus, I am happy to let you store them not them.

I don't like it, and nor should you. Can we please go back to our 'trusted' arrangement where my/our comments and details are lodged with you and not someone else whose real value will be the number of 'registrations' and volume of 'comments' lodged. These could at some future date be sold on; or profiles compiled for future marketing campaigns (that being the kinder view of what is possible).

Who are disqus and what is the commercial arrangement (if any) between PP and them? And what are the terms of privacy in play; and under what circumstances can they opt out?

And how can we ask for our details to be removed from their records?

To a given value of nice.

I'm going to look at the CSS again to see how I can make this simpler and take out the features…

it's easier in the sense that there's much less spam and people can edit their own comments and it incorporates reactions on other blogs/twitter/fb etc. So it combines various plugins – which is nice.

Also, it takes some (10?) minutes before a comment appears on the latest comments column .. can this be speeded up?

There

If I see a vile comment I don't want to 'report' it. What was wrong with a good old-fashioned stomping? What kind of creep 'reports' comments? You don't like it, deal with it.

I don't like change at the best of times, it's like when you're local gets done out and they paint over the nicotine ceiling. But this new format …

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Can't use disqus because my name has already been taken. And besides it apparently allows you go edit or delete your comments retrospectively, which is going to be confusing.

The reply and like functions are ok. Although like does introduce an element of popularity contest and it is better to be right than popular.

As I keep telling myself.

OK, I admit, I was LOL about that.

LOL = laughing out loud, maybe….