Disqus has a rating of 1.4 stars from 216 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about Disqus most frequently mention free speech, abc news, and conservative views problems. Disqus ranks 617th among Social Network sites.
I love the fact that I can go on Disqus and not constantly be set upon by whiny trolls who constantly spew hate speech because I can just block their constant vitriol from my sight with the handy blocking feature! Not to mention that most of the moderators there are wonderful people who know and ban a troll immediately when they see one, thank god. You can even make your own forums for free! What more could you want?
Don't waste your time with Disqus. No matter how polite or benign a comment it is, their algorithms are designed to remove them. All opinions must agree with the algorithms. I only commented that I lived in a state where tornadoes are frequent, but I have never actually seen one, myself, and Disqus found this offensive.
I was shadowbanned from disqus today which is odd because, although I'm conservative, I do my best to be friendly and respectful. Disqus doesn't even acknowledge that it shadowbans, although it does acknowledge that individual sites can shadowban.
Doing some research, I see that being shadowbanned for a conservative POV is not at all unusual.
I really don't even mind the shadowban but I was in the middle of several conversations that were abruptly terminated with the shadowban and there was no acknowledgement of a shadowban.
I will not continue to use disqus on my websites. I feel stupid for not detecting this apparent bias on the part of disqus in the past.
Disqus is an anti white anti conservative pro pedophilia platform, I have been banned many times especially by abcnews for stating facts that hurt liberals feeelings
Shares ALL datas with greedy 3rd parties, like Name/ age/ M@il/ IRLinfos/ pages u open, etc etc
If despite all this u decide to give it a go, then be ready for a hell of a spam in your mailbox everyday... not to forget they'll delete any comment/thread they dont like (criticism about disqus acting like a spyware is number 1 reason for deleting posts/threads).
Stay away, far away from it: just read the "privacy politics" page, u'll get a glance of the -non existant- "privacy"...
Disqus is an arm of the domestic Left in America, and a MONOPOLY that "black-lists" cogent conservatives impeding them to sign in on the websites that use their service, Most of those websites are leftist, the rest --incredibly, including some conservative websites-- just don't care and take the "freebie" that Disqus places under their mouths. Non-leftist websites should wise up and use other services to get the sing in processing done. Conservative and other non-leftist bloggers should denounce and expose Disqus.
Its impossible to change the settings, both username and profile photo, nothing is possible to change
I'm really angry i hope this thing blows
Aaaaaaargh
For some reason ALL of my comments get flagged as spam even though I am NOT posting spam. I tried reporting the issue and apparently they've "been working on it" for over half a year and have STILL not fixed the problem.
EDIT
While trying to contact support I found this bit of information that makes me lose even more respect for this company I already had no respect for.
"Direct support is reserved for paying publishers and large forum moderators. For more information on support levels, see Disqus Plans and Pricing."
What? I have to be a PAID member for you guys to be willing to give me direct support? So that mean that even though they are "working on" my flagged comments (That AREN'T spam but have been flagged as for some reason) that they are actually NOT because that would require DIRECT SUPPORT witch is RESERVED FOR PAID MEMBERS ONLY!
WHAT WEB SITE CHARGES FOR DIRECT SUPPORT?!
This company practices all out fraud - they charge people unknowingly and then make it impossible for you to cancel. I made the worst mistake signing up in October then canceling - after that they continued to charge me a monthly even after I asked to cancel. They refunded me the first time, then charged me yet again for December and sent an email thanking me for a new subscription when I haven't even visited the site since October. When they ask for information to cancel, none of what they ask for is available for you and you won't even remember getting assigned or given that information. This is their scam. They make it so easy to sign up, provide really terrible support if their comments system doesn't work on your website, then when you try to cancel they ask for information they never gave you and say it's required to refund. The funny thing is, I called them on that then they refunded me not even needing that information so they were caught in their own lie. And now they have committed fraud again signing me up for another subscription I clearly did NOT sign up for on my own. I have already formally submitted a complaint on this company. DO NOT sign up with Disqus they are the WORST.
The Disqus staff needs to get professional help, or, not spew their crap for it. There are around 750 mean-spirited site moderators all across Disqus (including conservatives, alt-right, and conspiracy theorists) as they still refused to deal with users or site moderators who cyberbully, harass, threaten, defame, or slander people.
This site needs to be permanently shut down by the FBI and the Interpol for investigation, as the online defamation attorneys and law firms who represent the individuals will ask the individuals to seek legal action against Disqus as the commenting platform is going to lose a lot of customers as they will find alternatives to Disqus. Everybody has had enough of this crap as I hope the site will be permanently closed and have its staff and its product support team arrested/sentenced to six months in prison for corruption and failure to terminate any mean-spirited users/moderators.
Update 10/03/2018: I hope Zeta Global (the parent company) also faces legal action from the said online defamation attorneys and law firms.
Tip for consumers:
Use Disqus alternatives, such as wpDiscuz, Commento, and Spot.IM, or use the comment system included in your WordPress themes.
9+ Rating shows I'm hitting the nail on the head a lot of time. Hence the "banned" flag now. I'll see American free speech on a whole lot of other sites and avoid anything related to Disgust.
Disqus has closed my account more than once without explanation. Disqus is a leftist censorship machine.
I want the news sites to abandon disqus for any other system. ANY other.
Disqus sells your data without your permission then bans you without your knowledge if you write something perfectly civil and non confrontational (like your own political opinion, which apparently isn't theirs). If you don't mind censorship from a company that LITERALLY sells you out, spies on you then shuts down your free speech, then Disqus is for you!
Poorly organized and mismanaged site with many non-English speaking mods. Don't waste your time trying to navigate or understand it. It's a deep dark hole of stupidity.
Undeserved censorship of critical thinking christian
I suspect my media was deprogramming too many left hand pathers / divisive 'christians'. Here are my links
twitter.com/0kind93
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgeOfGV7he9UC-GgdoS-CiQ/playlists
pastebin.com/zhin4G33
I used Disqus for quite awhile, getting plenty of likes on my comments. I even started getting followers. Another poster started writing vicious remarks about the Humane Society of the US. i. e: "HSUS is EVIL! Don't ever give them $!"
While I'm sure it has its problems, I had just adopted from a local Humane Society, and I did not want people to get confused and not go adopt because of her alarmist comments. Cruel disgusting bullies popped up, accusing me of being a "soldier" for PETA. I could not believe the moderator did not intervene since they were saying things like, "Can't wait to kill more animals because my fur coat looks fab." I said something like, "Ok hope you get paint on it." These idiots were like, "Admit you work for PETA now!" My comments were tame in comparison. The shallow, "fur looks so great on me I want to kill a fox next" person who was extremely graphic with the violence said, "I just flagged you, Freak." I didn't even know what that meant. Now I'm blocked forever from the site. And these sadistic MF's didn't even get flagged or anything. I just don't get it. Its not right, I was unfairly targeted. If anything, the fools attacking me sounded sick and twisted. I even used the Disqus "system" to write to the site and there was not even one response. This was Reality Tea by the way. I don't want a new account because they want you to register and there is no recourse if you are blocked. What do I get for giving them all my info? There were also many, many functionality issues on top of the unfair blocking. Oh, and don't forget, "You are LEGALLY responsible for what you type." WTF.
Tried to change email in acount but won't take new one in settings. Sorry but showing articles with no contact number, no chat room sucks. If there was an alternate I'd take it.
Goodbye Disqus the level of liberal bias knows no end! Disqus is absolutely worthless and is only interested in your ultra liberal political correct opinions.
Don't bother sharing any conservative view point even when posting on an article from a conservative site. It will be posted and shortly tagged spam. After you notify Disqus of the "mistake" they "work to correct" indefinitely. When they're called out for doing so they will blame the site's moderation however they're system is what is flagging the comment as spam and the site moderation is never aware it has taken place. This has become their MO whenever a comment can't be accused of violating any term of service while debunking progressive or liberal propaganda. Oops! Sorry thought it was spam it must be the site moderation not approving it. This doesn't stand up to scrutiny when the comment is posted, has already received feedback, and is then removed never to return. ALL CONSERVATIVES, LIBRITARIANS, AND POPULISTS CONTACT THOSE SITES YOU FREQUENT AND WISH TO COMMENT ON AND ANY ADVERTISER ON DISQUS TO DROP DISQUS!
Tip for consumers:
Don't bother.
I believe our posts get removed and we get banned, even called $#*!s from moderators--of whom you would think would act more like the referee and not the instigator--because each discussion has an agenda. As long as you go along with what everyone else who is still in the discussion is saying, you are fine. However, dare express an alternate opinion--of which you may not even realize you are doing--you are told you are trolling (which means you are purposely writing something meant to cause disruption). Therefore as a troll, your post is removed.
If you then ask why your post was deleted, you are now called a $#*! and are banned from the discussion entirely. And when you become confused as to what just happened for no reason, especially after a moderator who uplifted several of your opinions disagreed with one and simply deleted it, you finally find someone in Disquis management. It is then you are told to take it up with the moderator who banned you or another moderator on the page. You are also told the moderators have free-run to delete anything and ban anyone they want to and that management WILL NOT step in or interfere with a moderator's decision, even if that moderator is belittling you and is cursing at you.
Finally, if you decide to appeal to another moderator thinking you will get a rational response, you are told you "threatened" the moderator who banned you because you went to management. Then are you threatened with getting banned completely off of Disquis for life?
It's as simple and as ignorant as that!
According to Diqus (which means to discuss), the idea of the site is to discuss topics/issues of all kinds within society. A topic, such as a lead news event, is placed on a page and people are "invited" to discuss, comment and share their opinions on it. The idea is to exchange and share ideas and viewpoints. This is a great way to understand others who think differently than yourself and gather more understanding on issues.
Tip for consumers:
Avoid this site if you want to have a rational and thoughtful discussion about issues you're passionate about. Most find themselves banned, are accused of trolling or spam for no reason. There is NO company oversight!
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While Disqus promotes their site as an autonomous chat platform I find it odd that the channels owned by Disqus are moderated by community member volunteers. I understand channels that are created by community members being autonomous, but allowing community members free rein on channels that are supposed to be the base for the company? Very weird.
Why would a company have community member volunteers deciding what comments to delete and what community members to ban? Several community members have asked why they were banned from Disqus owned channels and why their comments were removed when they had not violated ToS, Disqus policy or suggested guidelines. Disqus has not answered any of those questions and instead Disqus has allowed the community member volunteers to delete the questions.
If Disqus is allowing community member volunteers to run Disqus.com then that raises the question as to why they would think other companies would trust them with anything that does not belong to Disqus.
Oddest business practice I have ever encountered for a company to have its most public marketing base handled by people who are not employees.
I think they are a joke really, The moderators are psychos with delusions of grandeur. I guess liberals had to create a safe house for their opinions.
First, the rooms of the site are filled with atheists who always go to the religion section. The first rule of disqus is "no insults," yet, atheists are allowed to gush insults to Christians in every comment without so much as a warning from the moderators, whereas Christians who use the word 'stupid' will have their comment removed and be threatened with banning. This is because the moderators there are all atheist liberals. Moreover, there are moderators there who will actually participate in the abuse, and sometimes even instigate it. -- Edit/addition: Commenting on the news site pages from a Biblical perspective is inviting the wrath of the unsaved which insists that the Bible is a lie and G-d is a liar. The endless lies and endless hypocrisy of the unsaved illuminate Matthew 23, and make clear that adhering to the satanic verses of the talmud is why gentiles hate us so much.
If you don't mention G-d, don't mention the Scriptures (even the OT), don't mention the Jewishness of them, and if you don't mention anything about sin... if you don't mention that we have all failed G-d in every way including what the chosen were chosen for, and if you don't provide Biblical support of what you claim, then you'll be just fine. One word of Biblical truth regarding the condition of humanity and its spiritual condition will result in your verbal crucifixion like you've never imagined possible (Matthew 7:6). There are no moderators present on the news pages, and "the good and the proud" are free to contaminate and destroy like an oil spill in an ocean.
I am a Liberal, last year for no good reason I responded to a political article defending Obama last year which was respectful and not attacking anyone verbally and then I was banned from commenting, I have emailed Disque asking them why and I have yet to get a reply, even on FB I have asked them and they just ignore me.
Disqus claims to have "great" discussions on their home based "channel" system. While that may be true of some channels that exist, be aware as a possible commenter, that the moderation and operation of these channels is entirely at the behest of volunteer, unpaid NON employee Disqus channel " owners" and "moderators". On some of these channels, anything goes, and a commenter should be prepared for a somewhat jarring and rude experience, as many of these channels are populated by trolling commenters and sock accounts. Any commenter could be banned from any these channels by any " owner" or "moderator" for posting the most innocuous of comments. Or, for simply being friendly with whatever is the "wrong" clique, as perceived by the CO or moderators. Disqus takes a "hands off" approach to the management of these channels, leaving what happens to those that " own" and "moderate" the channels. Apparently, Disqus is just interested in the numbers these channels pull in, not in facilitating "discussions". Let's not forget to mention all of the drama that has existed for what appears to be a decade between a certain faction of commenters that clutter up many channels and threads on Disqus.And, monopolize many of these "discussions" with their silly feud. If you're looking to have serious discussions, or even to just have some fun, choose your Disqus channels very wisely. Otherwise, you'll find Disqus to be quite the frustrating experience...
As a veteran it's sad to see such groups or businesses that may seem fine or a good idea is all ruined by censoring thoughts or historical facts due to far left leaning censoring, or hate for anyone who might disagree with those in partnership with such forums. If you don't agree with Hollywood, the fascist liberals or local corrupt local governments and their lying media you'll have no problems. If your a veteran opposed to sick fads or what we are forced to accept due to political corretness the problems begin, just logging in after claim of viloating some moderators personal beliefs is not right or about freedom of speech allowing us to politely disagree with communist or fascist. Or to have some moderator then send our posts out to various dangerous activist groups so they can attempt to find you to silence you? These companies for chat or sharing should not be allowed to act as fascist so they can censor all but their own agenda driven activism. Thought we had a right to disagree in America, not so much any more with Diqqus or sites like Topix.com. Some smaller towns are totally shut off from seeing some news links or to chat about more controversial topics so the fascist can try to show the multitudes must agree with the fascist since no others opinions or facts can be read or allowed to post.
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