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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.

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Top Positive Review

“I love Disqus so much I would marry it if it was physically possible to do so”

Joey M.
10/29/16

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?

Top Critical Review

“Against Freedom of Opinion”

Shmuley L.
3/11/22

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.

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Thumbnail of user darlac20
Texas
1 review
4 helpful votes
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October 10th, 2019

I can go comment on Fox News articles but I am the only one that sees them and I can prove it with pictures of comments an no responses to mine! I use to get lots of responses! If anyone is suing them I want in! I will continue to gather evidence I am being censored! Go to Www.foxnews.com. Read the comments on Young People are quitting their jobs in droves. Here's why... If you can see any comments by sislt777 please let me know because I get no replies an no likes or dislikes! I don't believe anyone sees my comments but me! I have gone to Disgus to get help an they say there's no problem! But I believe I am still banned from commenting!

Thumbnail of user godfreer
Thailand
1 review
9 helpful votes
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July 2nd, 2019

I comment regularly on China newsmostly by contributing statistics (which come mostly from sources like the WTO, the CIA, IMF, etc.

My comments are always polite and relevant and Disqus blocks them without permission of the site owners.

When I inform the site owners they apologize and de-block me but often Disqus ignores them.

The situation is so ridiculous that this week Disqus blocked a comment I made on Treehugger.com, an environment site, about handling bees and wasps that are drowning in swim pools!

Thumbnail of user mildreds36
New York
2 reviews
31 helpful votes
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August 9th, 2019

The main problem with Disqus is that they allow the trolls to overrun a site to annoy the other posters, call them names, and shut down the conversation. Trolls seem to have no life other than to prove how annoying they can be and overwhelm any opposing views.

Thumbnail of user jayb888
Tennessee
1 review
0 helpful votes
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June 24th, 2021

I just got banned from a site with no reasoning behind it what so ever. I see things from the most racist remarks to death threats on it. I've done neither of the latter but me simply implying defending celebrity actions like pedophilia/molestation/drugs/etc isn't okay and I get banned. Better yet I know for a fact they IP banned me, can't talk to anyone else nor find out who banned me. So if some $#*! wants to go on a power trip or shut up anyone who doesn't agree with them thats fantastic. I get its their site but the fact you have no way to appeal or find out why its laughably stupid and straight up censorship.

If you read this far, don't go to fmovies they're scum.

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Thumbnail of user eurichh
Turkey
1 review
2 helpful votes
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January 31st, 2022

I visited a few different news sites that use disquist for the commentary underneath the articles. My comments keep getting Automatically deleted. When I go to my profile it shows me the comments but it says that they were "Auto detected for spam" and deleted. It's pretty frustrating because I never spam comments. However I've seen other users write the exact same comments over and over under some of the articles and those are not even deleted. In my opinion they're just using this as a way of censorship to delete comments from people who they don't agree with what they're saying. I've stopped visiting any sites that use disquis for their comments. Disquis can go f themselves. I will not be sad if some hackers crash their systems.

Tip for consumers:
Do not even waste your time. disquis will just delete your conversations automatically if they disagree with your comments. Like a bunch of woke antifa faciststs

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Thumbnail of user sergeik21
Georgia
1 review
14 helpful votes
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May 22nd, 2020

Since I read a lot of comments from people here claiming that this website often bans or censors conservatives, I want to share why I deleted it. I came across some commenters who have over 30,000 comments, mostly showering liberals with vulgarity. So I made a few comments to them. They weren't nice, also not nearly on the same level as the comments I was responding to. They would get deleted every time. I don't know if individual moderators all have their own weird system for deciding who to censor, but the system needs to be looked at.

Thumbnail of user mollyp27
Pennsylvania
1 review
21 helpful votes
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April 29th, 2018

All you have to do is to look at the impossibility of trying to find out why you were banned from Disquis, To realize that its like dealing with the Nazi party. All someone has to do is to flag you because they dont like your opinion and if they are conservative, then you are banned, with no recourse.
If there is a class action suit against them then please let me know because I will contribute and join

Thumbnail of user georgd
Australia
1 review
23 helpful votes
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September 9th, 2016

As soon as you try to mention zionist globalists and their nwo secret societies you get banned. Disqus is just a speech censoring website that promotes nwo zionism by protecting it from criticism but doesn't mind discussion about jihad and death cults.

Tip for consumers:
If your pro zionist and nwo then this is the commenting site you need.

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Thumbnail of user chrisw874
GB
1 review
12 helpful votes
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December 16th, 2019

Disqus was embedded in Breitbart and many other platforms. When Disqus didn't like comments that didn't fit with their libtard ideology and realised they couldn't control (censor) them anymore, Disqus removed itself from these bulletin boards. What a hateful approach to life.

Thumbnail of user walterb59
North Dakota
5 reviews
50 helpful votes
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February 15th, 2019

There are a lot of hosting sites out there. They succeed or fail by being reliable platforms for peoples views and opinions without jading the input or censoring the output. It is their reliability as a forum that makes them useful. Imagine the Roman Forum policed by guys with truncheons?
Disqus has failed in this basic requirement. It skews what you can see and censors what is provided.

Thumbnail of user johnh2270
New Mexico
2 reviews
14 helpful votes
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August 23rd, 2019

They are shadowbanning and marking as spam political viewpoints they don't agree with. They are intellectual children whose ideas cannot stand up to any debate. They need to be sued out of existence, but they have that Google money so they will continue to perpetuate a false narrative echo chamber until the US Constitution is completely undermined at the behest of their Globalist Masters. I just found out not only are some of my comments across various sites such as The Hill shadowbanned, but my last 20 comments over the course of several months were all removed as "Spam". My comments were not spam they were political debate. Pathetic. This is cowardice manifest.

Thumbnail of user electrob
Ohio
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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July 19th, 2020

Recently on $#*!ute and other free speech platforms, comments with certain words have been "held for moderation" for the website owner. The problem is that they aren't really being held for moderation. Instead, Disqus is automatically removing comments without the website's consent based on how they feel fit. The moderation team of $#*!ute would never and has never asked for these comments to be censored. Please, do not use Disqus. Disqus has partnered with Google. Having a company this vile own your comment section is not worth the convenience.

Thumbnail of user gohw
Wisconsin
1 review
13 helpful votes
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August 5th, 2018

Disqus makes you sign in over and over at each site it purports to manage. The sign ins don't work. The email verification pages don't work. Disqus doesn't do what it says it will. Just more inept garbage clogging up the internet.

Thumbnail of user tonyl248
Arizona
1 review
3 helpful votes
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July 25th, 2019

I love using Disqus! The ease of commenting and the ability to follow threads, combined with the creation of a recoverable history of your own comments make this the best comments service I've encountered.

Thumbnail of user michaelw1725
Tennessee
8 reviews
54 helpful votes
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February 2nd, 2020

Disqus has been a great resource for those who follow the TOS- until recently.

It is now deleting posts that express sourced opinions with which some anonymous person does not agree.

Googling "Disqus" and "censorship" or "Disqus" and "complaints" suggests this is a problem of a scope that would interest an investigative reporter. Conciliatory requests for explanations are met with silence.

My opinion of this resource is now a 180 as a result of this lack of transparency.

Thumbnail of user patricias206
Arkansas
1 review
7 helpful votes
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July 6th, 2017

I quit using discus. They only allow radical right views. If you state something contrary to their mind thought, they go after you personally, when I read something, and want to say something, and when it's Disqus, I just don't bother.

Thumbnail of user martham101
Texas
1 review
19 helpful votes
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November 7th, 2017

A couple of times I have had posts that were removed. The first one was a conservative political viewpoint with no curse words, no name calling and it was removed. The second review was removed because I quoted a celebrity's opinion on women. Instead of using the B word which rhymes with itch that the celebrity used, I put 2 asterisks in the place of a couple of the letters in the B word. That got my comment removed. One of my "followers" turns out to be one of the Disqus moderators.

Thumbnail of user lesliet65
North Carolina
1 review
10 helpful votes
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April 10th, 2018

I googled a suspicious number that called and left a comment on this site. It immediately connected to my facebook, posted my name, etc. and I never joined. Now I cannot unjoin because it will not send me a link to reset password, has stolen my personal info and there is NO ONE to email to get help. STAY AWAY, total scam.

Thumbnail of user brednac
Georgia
34 reviews
20 helpful votes
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January 1st, 2016

I love this time you can write on the different cites you can agree or disagree or agree to what is said. You can see what others say and agree or disagree to what they say but you can get a incite on what others think about different subjects you can also win prizes. I am not sure when the prizes are delivered to those who win but they do win for what is said there voted on. Brenda carlton

Thumbnail of user jeffc377
Montana
2 reviews
13 helpful votes
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September 28th, 2018

Horrid site. Anyone who actually wants stimulating discussions-whether liberal or conservative (or independent like me) - AVOID this site. The "owners" of the site will only hear what their myopic little brains can handle- then you are banned.
WASTE of TIME!

Thumbnail of user abstractreasoner
California
1 review
5 helpful votes
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April 4th, 2023

All of my responses are flagged as spam lately. I'm permitted to make an initial post but when I want to respond to other commenters, they are flagged as spam. I tried three times but all spam. I clicked the link to review my responses to reconsider but no success.

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Thumbnail of user jiml144
Georgia
1 review
13 helpful votes
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January 21st, 2018

The typical Disqus channel moderator strictly limits the spectrum of acceptable opinion, allowing only lively debate within that spectrum. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate

Thumbnail of user kimj62
Florida
1 review
28 helpful votes
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May 6th, 2016

I began using disquis a few months ago, I gave very good comments and got a lot of good conversations with others, nothing bad. But i noticed if you get too deep on a subject they don't like apparently they hold your comments or like me delete your account! So i see they like drama and dont care about people having clean conversations. Yet someone else can type vulgar language and comments, nothing happens. Hate disquis good riddens you frauds

Thumbnail of user nicholasa77
Massachusetts
5 reviews
22 helpful votes
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December 1st, 2019

I have two Disqus accounts. Each is connected to a different email address. As I tend to stay logged in on sites that use Disqus, I forgot my passwords. Today I found that I had been logged out on one of my frequented sites. I went to Disqus to ask a question and found that in order to ask a question, I have to KNOW my password. I then requested a password reset email twice, finally got one 20 minutes later, and read "expired" when I tired to use it. I then request another password reset and got, "down for maintenance". I finally decided to delete my Disqus accounts and found that you cant do that - without a password. This is like hell, a needless, endless circle of pain. I can't log in, I can't reset my password, and I can't close my accounts. Maybe contacting my state attorney general would do something?

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Turkey
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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