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Regularmente para tus usuarios puedan comentar tus entradas necesitan o registrarse, o logearse o llenar un formulario, lo que desanima a más de uno; ClickComments es un widget para comentarios, que permite a tus usuarios comentar una entrada con un s…

i was very disappointed to read “cool stuff”. apparently it’s an ice cream cone.

It seems to me that many people’s reaction on this blog is to criticise. or make fun of whatever is on offer. What a cynical audience…….

– good complement to traditional comments
– I miss a negative feedback button. One cannot expect only good feedback, that would be worrying…
– smaller icons would be nice
– possibility to configure the labels would be awesome – especially for non-English sites

I like the concept, the approach and solution it’s trying to solve is a tough one, but other then buttons etc already discussed – I think it runs into the same problem as many other systems of this kind.

1) bloggers want QUALITY “guest posts”, not junk – logging in to block people isn’t a very productive time management at my end – need some sort of rating system

2) should be able to block based on related domains owned, so in this case, the guy I blocked 15 domains from I would only need to add in one (or an IP/dns range)

3) having to login DAILY to put up a new blog is a hassle, automatic blog addition would do wonders otherwise it’s just yet another thing to add to my to-do list

So, this is a chicken and the egg scenario, they won’t be able to attract quality bloggers unless there is either some $$$ or traffic incentives but they won’t have neither of those until they have quality blogger.

I sent a few e-mails to customer service, they are incredibly responsive and I have no doubt they have a HUGE list of programming bugs/upgrades/features yet to work out but for now, I have decided to wait till version 2.0 comes out.

Jon

Currently this plugin’s results are displayed as string of icons and numbers, and unfortunately that’s just not user-friendly:

(A)106 (B)81 (C)67 (D)65 (E)92 (F)69 (G)79 (H)80

This plugin clearly needs some creative use of GD to make it more clear to users what the results of all their voting is, at a glance.

Most readers don’t leave a post on a blog because they don’t have anything to add to the coversation and they don’t know it is essentially rude to leave meaningless posts that don’t contribute to the dialogue…. I don’t have a personal or corporate blog as of yet, but if I did, I sure don’t care if you thought my post was “neato”, “mean”, or a “great find, scotty!” I would rather somebody with a well formed thought let me know in the comments section what they are thinking. Their written comment may be a simple gesture, but more times than not comments in a blog add in some shape or form to the original post, and just as we are all writing our comments here, actually becomes a back and forth dialogue between readers…. I have no clue how this type of stuff ends up on techcrunch…….

BTW I’m not saying that coComment “the company” is struggling, but that the problem is far from solved.

As for ClickComments, my feedback would be that icons need to be a lot smaller, and perhaps customizable. Some blog designs may just not go at all with this large multicolor display, and as #30 said, the current footprint is rather large.

We really appreciate your feedback. Sean Percival got it right. We are buying you a drink. The ‘first icon’ was originally called ‘hot sh!t’, but the red would have made it ‘a steaming pile of sh!t’ so we made it ‘cool sh!t’, but to make it PG we called it ‘cool stuff’.

This works on Wordpress, TypePad, and Blogspot. It installs on TypePad and BlogSpot in three clicks.

We take all feedback seriously. If you look at our corporate blog, you will see that we respond and act on feedback very quickly and also reference the bloggers that gave us the feedback.

A few tweaks and this could be very cool, all blog authors want interesting ways to engage their audience.

Icons could be improved for simplier recognition.

Gerald
anthropologist