hmmm…what blogging platforms does it support? Is there a wordpress plugin? Any other plugins like this?

that is one goofy video.

ahhh…I suppose you simply add the code to your site.

Whatever happened to cocomment?

http://www.techcrunch.com/2006.....functions/

is it just me or does the first one look remarkably like a pile of dog doo? This system relies upon easily identifiable icons (despite the hover) and the wrong one could be misleading, the image of dog doo is clearly a different sentiment to that of “cool stuff”!

That ‘cool stuff’ icon looks more like a steaming pile of dung.

Not a bad idea tho.

well said, Thomas Mitchell

A bit strange but I think that it might be indeed a good way to get more response from the readers. But I don’t see it as a replacement more an addition to the conventional way of commenting.

Yup, a useful addition — if the icons were improved a bit that is — but in no way a replacement to conventional comments, like Peter says. More a digg-like extra.

A very useful addition. Might find more participation from readers and also new visitiors…

It’s not so much a replacement but a compliment to commenting.

Seems interesting at most. Not sure how of its results though, but i’ll give it a try on one of my blogs

Sounds nice. I will try it out

Greets,
Tobbi

Ha!

Yea that “cool stuff” link really looks like a steaming turd.

Maybe they mean “hot sh!t”

I can’t find the first button, for all the kiddies out there …

But it’s a great and simple idea, i will try it out.

Seems week …

Ha, I get:

Application error (Rails)

I wont bother then.

Well, there is a different between a textual comment and tagging with icons. An icons contains as much information as one word. A comment may be several lines long.

@Matt Brian - Just refresh the page and you’ll get the link to the plugin, etc.

I’m testing it out but would like a way to track the number of “click comments” each post gets and a way to sort them by the type and number of “click comments.” But maybe that’s asking for too much?

The types of comments remind me of the various types of karma on slashdot, particularly “entertaining” and “insightful”.

Thanks Hsien, it worked the second time.

Perhaps Postreach should submit this to the plugin directory at Wordpress and get more exposure…and an alternate download link.

Absolutely no value whatsoever. I really don’t get this at all as a way of commenting.

Yip cool stuff looks just like a turd…

And no way to negatively comment on a post?

Maybe it’s just me, but I also like my readers to be able to tell me “you’re full of BS,” “you made a mistake,” or even “I disagree.” At first Clickcomments sounded interesting, because it sounded something like a multiple choice rating tool, where you could make a simple click to express your feelings towards a blog post, but select from a wider range of options than just digging it or not. But all of the options included in Clickcomments make the assumption that your readers want to fawn all over you. I think it’d be a hell of a lot more useful if I could customize it, with perhaps a collection of dozens of buttons, then allowing me to select the ones most relevant to the type of feedback I’m seeking. No matter what, it still won’t replace the thoughtfulness of text comments, but at least it could reflect the diversity of opinions the public might have about your blog.

pretty cool, fairly easy to integrate to blog, works as a plugin for wordpress. I’ve tested it both for blogger and wordpress. The only downside is only positive comment and no words …

I like the concept, I’ve popped it onto my blog and I’m hoping that they’ll do the do. I agree with Andy though. I’d like to see negative feedback too.

Thanks,
Stewart

I’ve just had a reader tell me they were confused because they thought they were no longer able to leave regular comments. The tag on the click comments widget says “click to comment” with an arrow pointing down which I think can lead readers to thinking they should click there to leave a text comment instead. Can’t edit the plugin so I’m deactivating for now.

That first button should be negative feedback and say “Poo” over it.

Yes — that so called “cool stuff” looks like HOT SHIT.

will probably -

- work on 50% / of very low level blogs
- work on 30% / of low level blogs
- work on 10% / of small blogs
- work on .00001% of any major blog

- Work = catch on; or used for more than 2 weeks.

The reason: Takes, too much realestate for the value ad

“touched my heart”

i really like it. i’ve been looking for some sort of way to aggregate blog comment responses into a pie chart and this just might work.

NEED UNIVERSALLY RECOGNIZED BUTTONS.
a red “x”
a thumbs up and down,
a brain logo
heart for “LOVE it.”
I had to guess at your logos and was wrong every time.
Get it right and this could be a “Google big dollars ” thing.

Gerald
anthropologist

it may engage more lurkers who would otherwise take no action. on the other hand, regular commenters will just press a button instead of leaving insigtful comments that bloggers yearn for.

seems like a good idea but with no text comment feature and the ability to simply click and click on all the buttons I’m not sure how valuable the input is.

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.

Nice! I like that pile of poop icon!

You can get commenting and trackback already with Haloscan.

Hi guys,

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.

It’s so incredibly retarded that it will probably become immensely successful.

#3 What ever hapened to cocomment? I think coComment was trying to solve a very real problem, but at the same time it is a problem that isn’t that easy to solve, so I think that’s the struggle.

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.

Where are the uncov guys when you need them? If Hans hadn’t explained why the first button looks like dog shit I would have sworn this product was some sort of joke or was fake. This product turns every blog into a poll……… A short little poll where sometimes more readers click that they like the post, some readers click that they don’t like the post, and some readers write in a comment, “why does the blue button look like dog shit?”

ooops hit return on accident….

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…….

I installed then removed this plugin because it became evident to me that the results of the voting were not creatively rendered on the screen to users in a sufficient manner.

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.

I stuck this on my companies health blog - http://blog.myfoodcount.com and the first thing I got was a “guest blogger” that was telling all his customers that he won’t be blogging for the next week. No problem - they got a block list. Well, after adding a few URLs, I realized this same guy had about 15 domains (with related spam-posts) - essentially spam-blogging away. I then got additional blogs from people thanking their sponsors etc… again, more garbage that provides 0 to my visitors and to be honest, makes my blog look like crap.

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

Not a bad concept - but the icon design is lousy. You’d have thought they’d nail that part of it, given it’s central to the concept of images not words…

My comments:

- 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

by coComment we are working on a new version of the service. The idea is to change the service from mainly a personal productive tool to a social conversational space. We are focusing on communities (can be by topic, by blog) and functionalities to share and enrich conversations. Launch mid July.

I like it. Have added to blog and let’s see what happens!

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…….

I added it already. Wishing though of a much more cleaner icons.

as i rolled across the icons, i wondered why there wasn’t one for a negative response until i got to the first one and thought, “aha…a pile of shit…”

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