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CommentPower: Evaluate, rate and enhance comments

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CommentPower is a new Web 2.0 service that you can integrate with your blog and use it to enhance comments. Currently, the service is in Private Beta, but hopefully, it will be out soon for everyone to use.

Upon installing and activating the plugin on your blog, you get options that’ll help you and your readers rate comments. Ratings are stored in a centralized server, and the comment author is rewarded for his or her comments. Comment Authors are identified by their email address.

CommentPower Rating System

I liked this part: It’s AJAX paged, and the usability factor is high. You can sort comments based on user ratings – good comments first or last.

Good commentators can be recognized and this may add up to their reputation.

WordPress users can get a plugin, so integration is easy.

CommentPower Seems promising. You can sign up to be a beta tester here.

What do you think, readers?

Written by admin

May 24th, 2007 at 5:29 am

Posted in blogging

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  • SlickMeister

    Hmmm…very neat idea…reminds me of the concept of Digg commenting but taken to the next level. I don’t see how you use it though, can you integrate it…in your case straight into WordPress and it can be used right here where I’m commenting or do I have to go to CommentPower.com to then navigate to your blog area and view comments on each posts and do the stuff from there…?

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    SlickMeister,
    It’s available as a plugin for WordPress users, so no hassles. Other blogging platforms have to wait to get it.
    It’s available right in the comments section once the plugin is activated and necessary modifications are done in the theme, and you can see a live demo here: http://www.rishiraj.info in post pages.

    Sorry for not being clear in the post about this, updated now :)

  • http://www.nirmaltv.com Nirmal

    Initially I too thought of installing this plug-in, but later decided not to. Too many plugins were slowing down my blog.

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    Yes, Nirmal too many plugins slow things down. But this one is worth trying, IMHO.

  • http://fo.unta.in fo.unta.in

    All this web2.0 stuff is effort wasted on the wrong stuff.

    I wrote something like how google killed computer science where i have provided more points reg this.

    http://fo.unta.in/?p=41

  • http://www.sizlopedia.com Dj Flush

    Plugins don’t slow your blog down unless you have sexy host and your users are not reading your blog through dial up of course

    Yeh but the fact matters that plugins should not use most of the resources. I have over 25+ plugins at my blog but it loads fine

    To be honest I liked CommentPower when I saw it first time on Rishi’s blog and I may implement it soon on my blog

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    Thanks for the info, Dj. :)

    Glad that you’re gonna implement the plugin. :)

  • http://www.imchatmessenger.com Sahil Gupta

    @DjFlush : slowing down of your pages depends upon the type of plugin you are using.

    As commentpower is an AJAXed plugin, it is making it slow… I checked Rishi’s blog.. the loading time is very annoying..only because of commentpower (you can see that on the browser’s status bar while loading) even on my 2 mbps broadband..

    and i m sure rishi’s is having a sexy host.

  • http://www.imchatmessenger.com Sahil Gupta

    this javascript :
    callJSFramework(“http://www.rishiraj.info/wp-content/plugins/commentpower”,”http://www.commentpower.com”,”63fe6146f1986046271184e7f2de1caf”,”4651da6fa2507″,”0″,”0″);

    (at the bottom of every page of every page on rishi’s blog)

    is being loaded on every page, in fact it is needed only on the post pages,
    the correct code should be like

    callJSFramework(“http://www.rishiraj.info/wp-content/plugins/commentpower”,”http://www.commentpower.com”,”63fe6146f1986046271184e7f2de1caf”,”4651da6fa2507″,”0″,”0″);

    havent tested it yet…

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    Sahil Gupta: Yeah, I noticed the same on Rishi’s Blog, and that’s the reason I’m hesitating to install it here. Other than that, this plugin’s really cool.

  • http://www.rishiraj.info Rishi

    Ok, @Sunil and Shankar : It was not because of the CP plugin instead because my sick f**kin hos @ Dreamhost but now I’ve shifted to a new (mt) so no problem.

    And @Sunil, non of the internet providers in India give 2Mbps speed.. :P And (mt) is a really SEXY and HOT host! :P

  • http://www.imchatmessenger.com Sahil Gupta

    @Rishi : Atleast MTNL (delhi) does provide net @ 2Mbps.. no idea about others…
    Your new host is still not that sexy enough… your blog is loading slow on my desk..
    My name is Sahil by the way.. not Sunil…

  • http://www.rishiraj.info Rishi

    Oh Ok! Sahil, not even MTNL provide 2Mbps … they show its 2Mbps but its not and which browser do you use Sahil? I can pay you to test my site and report me bugs?

  • http://www.myfreespy.com Sahil Gupta @ MyFreeSpy.com

    My Browser : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3 …. lol :p

    My MTNL broadband : Well.. i agree its not 2Mbps… but my actual download speed is normally 190KBps.. not bad..

    And how much can you pay… han?? … ya am serious :p

  • http://www.rishiraj.info Rishi

    Sahil, mail me at rishidc [at] gmail.com !