Intense Debate

After seeing several of my favourite blogs enable them, coupled with Db0’s frustratingly brilliant reasoning for having them, I have installed Intense Debate, which means all comments are now in uber-awesome format, and you can respond directly to previous comments via threading.

This of course removes the need to put @user or #12 in reference to a certain comment, and makes discussions that inevitably erupt in comments easier to maintain (and read). The latest version of I.D. (that’s Intense Debate, not Intelligent Design) meant that I could simply import all my comments I already had, so I don’t lose any of the lovely things everyone has said!

I’m still in the middle of fixing the custom CSS, but that shouldn’t take long. If comments look screwy for a few minutes, I’m just tinkering over the interwebs.

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  1. November 26th, 2008 at 08:51 | #1

    Db0’s frustratingly brilliant reasoning

    Oh so quoted! :D

  2. November 26th, 2008 at 09:02 | #2

    sweet, and your Open ID works for logging in, unlike some sites which use Intense Debate?
    hey db0 know anything about that problem?

  3. November 26th, 2008 at 09:06 | #3

    What do you mean? Open ID should work find with IDC, at least it works for me

  4. November 26th, 2008 at 09:13 | #4

    @ db0 – A few sites I've been to that use IDC I can't use my Open ID to login, the page refreshes after I press 'login' but I'm not logged in. I have to use my user name and password. I'll try and note which sites have this problem and report back.Sorry to hijack your blog Adrian, but perhaps if anyone else has noticed this they could also let us know which sites this effects?

  5. November 26th, 2008 at 09:19 | #5

    You should also open a support call with the ID about this. Perhaps they can help. For the record, what site are you using for openid?

  6. November 26th, 2008 at 09:21 | #6

    Sorry to hijack your blog Adrian

    Hehe, I thought that was what Intense Debate was for :P

  7. November 26th, 2008 at 09:23 | #7

    for the record – http://ozatheist.wordpress.com/
    will notify ID when I find 'bad' sites.

  8. November 26th, 2008 at 09:23 | #8

    Cool. I've been pretty happy with it for the most part. I just wish they would restore the features that made me switch and have since been disabled (e.g., being able to important and export easily into Blogger).

  9. November 26th, 2008 at 09:24 | #9

    for the record – http://ozatheist.wordpress.com/
    will notify ID when I find 'bad' sites.

    and yes db0 I'm still using the free wordpress host LOL

  10. November 26th, 2008 at 09:26 | #10

    Hmmmm…perhaps it's time for atheistrev.com to become a fully hosted platform?

  11. November 26th, 2008 at 09:28 | #11

    And I have a still open invitation to that extent ;)

  12. November 26th, 2008 at 09:34 | #12

    how much are you making out of this db0? still drumming up business I see. LOL

  13. November 26th, 2008 at 09:38 | #13

    Not a cent. I'm afraid the experiment was not a success. People are very afraid of change apparently.

  14. November 26th, 2008 at 10:01 | #14

    Thanks for reminding me to do the very same! :-)

  15. November 26th, 2008 at 11:16 | #15

    Intense Debate is driving me nuts personally. I finally found a theme that doesn't break with it installed nor ignores it, but now it won't show older comments even though the settings page says they've been imported. WP2.7 is supposed to have threaded comments when it comes out which was my main reason for attempting to install ID. I'm thinking of just doing away with ID.

  16. November 26th, 2008 at 11:50 | #16

    Karen, you should contact the support team in GetSatisfaction. They're very helpful

  17. November 26th, 2008 at 11:55 | #17

    Really? I imported a rather large amount of older comments when I upgraded to the new version of ID (previously I hadn't bothered and just let them stay as-is) and as far as I can tell they're all showing up fine.

    What was the problem you were having with ID and breaking themes? Maybe I or one of the other smart cookies here can help you with it. I had some minor breakage when I switched to Mandigo but it was solved by putting an explicit width on ID's div (thus preventing it from causing the content column to become monstrous and shove the sidebars off to the side).

    If that last sentence made sense to anyone, they get a cookie.

  18. November 26th, 2008 at 11:56 | #18

    "I’m still in the middle of fixing the custom CSS, but that shouldn’t take long. If comments look screwy for a few minutes, I’m just tinkering over the interwebs."

    Boy oh boy, am I ever familiar with that. :p

    The primary reason I switched themes, and one of the reasons I like ID for that matter, is that the style/presentation is taken care of by someone else and I don't have to fiddle with it anymore!

  19. November 27th, 2008 at 01:05 | #19

    Any ideas on how to "tone" it down?

  20. November 27th, 2008 at 01:52 | #20

    I like it. I like that I can reply dirct fom my email account as well

  21. November 27th, 2008 at 02:08 | #21

    Oh hai! I haz intens deeb8 nao :-)

  22. November 27th, 2008 at 03:50 | #22

    Btw, you're going to need a good anti-spam plugin probably. I had some problems with bcspamblock (blocking trackbacks) and badbehaviour (blocking syncing) so I ended up using http://wordpress-plugins.feifei.us/hashcash/ which seems good enough

  23. November 27th, 2008 at 04:51 | #23

    I must say, I do like the new look to the comments.

    Completely unrelated: Tagged

  24. November 27th, 2008 at 08:15 | #24

    Yeah, I think I managed to get the custom theming working. Blockquotes look nice again:

    see?

  25. November 27th, 2008 at 09:37 | #25

    Whitewash?

  26. Luis Dias
    November 27th, 2008 at 10:41 | #26

    Too flashy. Too little content, too much noise. People shout instead of commenting. Don't like it, tone it down.

  27. November 27th, 2008 at 12:08 | #27

    Welcome to the ID community! Heh. I bet you never thought you'd hear someone tell you that ;o)

  28. November 27th, 2008 at 12:30 | #28

    You have been Tagged http://ozatheist.wordpress.com/2008/11/27/six-thi...

    By the way what sort of HTML tags work in IDC?

  29. November 27th, 2008 at 12:33 | #29

    a i b img and blockquote afaik

  30. November 27th, 2008 at 12:33 | #30

    em, strong, i, b, a, and probably others. I think under some settings you can use the img tag.

  31. November 28th, 2008 at 02:28 | #31

    Just figured out what the rating beside may name is – doh?

  32. June 20th, 2009 at 13:39 | #32

    This is really cool. .

    Bulletproof Vest

  33. June 23rd, 2009 at 14:55 | #33

    Is there a list anywhere of users of Intense Debate or is it a case of serendipity?

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