Tech talk, cold comfort.

DISQUS, yet another annoyance. I'm trying to not be cynical here so I will blame it for cutting costs but lately, this DISQUS thing is all over the place. For those who never heard of it, it's a kind of plug-in you add to your website to get commenting functionality for posted articles "http://disqus.com - Disqus is a global comment system that improves discussion on websites and connects conversations across the web."

For a while I have been pondering how to explain this annoyance in a good way until I saw a comment the other way on some website I randomly visited so I'll just repost it. He puts it so well:

Leisuresuit Larry on March 21, 2011 at 10:59 wrote:Disqus is evil and wants to sell your personal information once you've signed up. Disqus prevents people from posting "real" comments sicnce everything you say is linked back to your account. I don't care for this level of transparency - how can people be okay with giving up their anonymity? I guess if your the hardcore blogger than it's cute to try and help you keep your own comments organized. But for all others, Disqus is a real headache.

Yet another tracking mechanism, adding your thoughts, ideas, and opinions to a central database, so the powers that be can more easily identify and isolate disgruntled revolutionaries and "terrorists"... ?

Well, when almost all major "news" websites start using and promoting this tool, you know something is fishy. Just like how they made Facebook a hit and we all know how that went. The scary part is people keep falling for this. Year in and year out. Not that I got anything to hide, really. I'm sitting naked in my chair at home and drinking tea. *lol* ...but still, it's all very weird. A brave new world I suppose.

They are probably just documenting all the people they are going to kill off in the "Great Gleaning" of the herds, so they can justify it to future generations by picking and choosing things we say that are good reason to get rid of us all. lol.

Damn, even http://www.majorgeeks.com uses this Disqus crap. So much for major "geeks" huh?

It's not "DISQUS", it's: "Disgust"!

It is quite amazing just how bad some of the commenting systems are now. Many sites just throw them in seemingly random order, but actually most recent first. So the only logical way to navigate a thread is to first read the top post and then keep pressing "end" to get to the bottom so they autoload ( or worse, keep pressing the next page ) to find the earliest comments and then work backwards.

It's as if the goal is to make the sheeple even stupider than they already are.

Is Disqus that bad? I think it's more of a comment system to prevent spam. It may have its uses. I think being annoying on Facebook is much worse.

I think uppity twats telling folks how their "supposed" to behave using videos with annoying background music uploaded to Youtube are, by far and away, the worst.

These services are all about mapping and categorising people, violating their privacy to salesmen and conmen.