Disqus Research: Pseudonyms Drive Communities

Re:Disqus Research: Pseudonyms Drive Communities by zeeg on Monday January 09, 2012 @06:00PM (#3444735)

We sample data from the entire network of Disqus (which is over a million sites).

I may be wrong (as I'm not on the marketing side of things), but I believe when we're saying pseudonym we're saying "not Facebook". Things that let you choose whatever name you want, and not require your real name/singular identity.

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Re:Disqus Research: Pseudonyms Drive Communities by waqf on Monday January 09, 2012 @06:02PM (#3444744)

Thanks for following up. I think you're confirming my assumption on the definition of "pseudonym", but correct me if you disagree.

Oh, and since I seem to have zeeg's attention ... why is it that every site I care about works just fine on my browser (Chromium/incognito mode/AdBlockPlus) but Disqus comments never load (I just get a "Disqus" spinning/loading GIF for ever)? I have stopped commenting on BoingBoing because it switched to Disqus and I don't care enough to debug.

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Re:Disqus Research: Pseudonyms Drive Communities by thetylerhayes on Monday January 09, 2012 @06:27PM (#3444846)

If you don't have JS disabled like zeeg mentioned, AdBlockPlus is a red flag. Can you try incognito mode with no extensions enabled? If that doesn't fix this reach out to our support team at http://disqus.com/support and we'd be happy to lend a hand.

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Re:Disqus Research: Pseudonyms Drive Communities by zeeg on Monday January 09, 2012 @06:08PM (#3444764)

Are you blocking JavaScript somehow? Or AdBlocking the disqus media maybe?

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