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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 monicab100
Canada
1 review
10 helpful votes
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April 12th, 2018

I know my title is aggressive, but as a Freelance Photographer & a millennial, I am very good with technology. This site has been so glitchy, unhelpful, and frustrating! I don't know why sites use Disqus for comments on blogs.

Thumbnail of user davidt229
South Carolina
1 review
22 helpful votes
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December 29th, 2016

Twice now I have had my account blocked because it was recognized as "spam". Nothing I have ever posted resembles advertising or spam. I have noticed that if I make comments that tend to be liberal on political discussion boards someone usually have my posts deleted as offensive, which they aren't. It seems the moderators for this discussion board are just lazy and don't actually read the posts or comments. What's worse is, their "fix" is just get another email address instead of them actually correcting the problem. Just lazy.

Thumbnail of user disqusl
Oregon
1 review
4 helpful votes
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June 13th, 2022

Disqus pretends to have comment moderation policies; in the last day, I've seen a comment saying "millions of liberals should be shot" and a comment calling a black woman a type of animal as a racist slur.

Neither were removed after multiple reports. Disqus endorses calls for mass murder and dehumanizing hate speech every time they refuse to remove them despite direct policies and criminal statutes against leaving them public.

Tip for consumers:
Expect to have death threats and pathetic racism/slurs thrown at minorities because Disqus doesn't care about anyone but white J6 Terrorist types.

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Thumbnail of user swedem
New Jersey
1 review
19 helpful votes
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August 16th, 2018

Disqus is run by extreme Leftist Moderators that will remove any comments not towing their Leftist ideology. All posts demonizing President Trump, even those using bigoted vile hateful derogatory and vulgar language, are ok. Any factual refutation of spurious Leftist comments is marked as spam and removed.

Thumbnail of user fredw49
Hawaii
1 review
15 helpful votes
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May 16th, 2016

This website subjects you (and your kids) to all kinds of perversions such as beastiality, incest, rape, satanic sex worship as well as unfair practices by moderators who, if they don't agree with what you write, erase your comments or cyber bully you. Many don't moderate well allowing commentators to bully others with vulgar comments. There are is no way to block members who are bullying you are unsubscribe to unwanted groups. I suspect that the Disqus staff understand how to manipulate the website to their favor and technically deprive members they don't like from control of the site.

Thumbnail of user tomr291
California
1 review
35 helpful votes
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June 18th, 2018

I see from the other comments that my suspicions are well-founded. This site is controlled by the worst elements of the world. No opinions are permitted which are not in accordance with their agenda of the glorification of degeneracy, debauchery, and depravity. Decent, upright people waste their time with this human vermin.

Thumbnail of user philipw104
GB
1 review
8 helpful votes
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June 3rd, 2019

Great until they adopted the appalling Captcha login Awful until they revert. There seems to be little logic in making logging more difficult. They will lose users because of adopting this despised system.

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North Carolina
12 reviews
55 helpful votes
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August 17th, 2017

They run comment sites for companies such as ABC News and then when you call them out for censorship and banning anyone that disagrees, they fold up and claim that they are not responsible. I am a Moderate and was banned from ABC from stating a fact. Apparently with Disqus, anyone who disagrees can flag you and have you removed.
They got a lesson on free speech from me, but they are too dense and biased to understand it.

Thumbnail of user jiml129
Arizona
1 review
23 helpful votes
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August 3rd, 2017

The moderators from this site have gone out of their way to block all of my posts on every single one of the websites that they control the comments to. I have tried to use up to 5 different email addresses and contact names, yet, every single one of my posts have been rejected. If you have a point that you would like to make that supports the agenda of the current President, don't bother posting. I will be working overtime along with my fellow conservative publishers to have all conservative websites review their relationships with this regressive anti-American propagandist!

Thumbnail of user jm1076
South Carolina
1 review
7 helpful votes
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July 18th, 2020

I think I've managed one or two comments when forced to comment through Disqus, keyword forced, and then the rest of the time it's insisting I validate my email for the millionth time. Sometimes I do, and still, it never works. Shame any website at all uses this 3rd party data miner, I mean comment service.

Thumbnail of user arealistaa
California
2 reviews
27 helpful votes
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June 12th, 2016

This is the absolute worst "discussion" site on the Internet! That is if one can even call it a discussion site... because it's not.

It's actually a site where at the whim of a moderator (from San Francisco no less) decides that your post doesn't agree with their liberal view, your post is removed. You can also be banned from the site. Like being banned from Disqus is a bad thing? What a joke!

Thumbnail of user gingern11
Illinois
2 reviews
11 helpful votes
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July 17th, 2019

Disqus is an opinion site on TMZ, Radar online, etc. I have tried to comment on a report usually on another accused but acquitted pedophile. My comments although against such grotesque acts in children are always removed. I believe Disqus is biased towards Hollywood. It does not matter the crime. Disqus does not let you post your opinion! I hate it!

Thumbnail of user marcg178
New Jersey
1 review
2 helpful votes
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August 28th, 2020

Never works. Change password and login do not scale on all mobile devices. Login doesn't always work. When I do get past login, I see three spinny gears until patience timeout. I have rarely had any success with disqus. If I could give it. 25 stars, I would.

Thumbnail of user froge
Canada
1 review
7 helpful votes
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October 20th, 2019

Disqus allows site owners to use their own banned words list.
On pathetic Breitbart they have banned the surname Soros from being posted and even the word Synagogue or Jew.

Why exactly should they have ANY banned words list?
Why not just have a check box that Disqus posters be 18 and over, or else go to a child's forum where words are banned?

Thumbnail of user alfaindom
Indonesia
1 review
12 helpful votes
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November 6th, 2017

I wrote my detailed view on a movie. Nothing conservative or controversial about it. Then it got deleted as spam. So i fixed what seems like the problem (layout, double space, paragraphs, etc), and it worked... for a few minutes. Then it got deleted as spam again. I'm so done with this thing.

Thumbnail of user richardp147
Tennessee
3 reviews
23 helpful votes
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April 25th, 2017

Why does Disqus keep blocking my comments? They are not spam, hate or racist; nor am I a troll. This illegal censorship must stop. If they give me a good reason why and not just because they simply disagree with my viewpoint. Tthat will be fine. If not I am going to the department of Justice and ask for them to appoint me attorneys. Also look for my negative comments everywhere online.

Thumbnail of user rodneyf18
Indiana
1 review
8 helpful votes
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December 8th, 2017

I asked Disqus specifically to check a website and see if they had disabled it as it was not showing. Not the typical slow to load Refresh? Or spinning wheel crap but the "show comments" button is completely gone after having posted earlier in the day. No warnings no you are suspended or in "time out" nothing. Like a microsoft error that says error but lets you try to guess what the issue is.
If the site has decided to censor posts by shutting off Disqus so be it but why can't Disqus be bothered to respond to my inquiry and do it in a timely manner so they might see a bug or actual issue in real time? CBSNews is the problem site and Disqus still works on ABCNews so what is the problem with answering a simple question?

Thumbnail of user maorr1
Florida
3 reviews
4 helpful votes
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April 21st, 2023

You can log in and out 10 times and it still wont let you post without "authentication". It slows the lates M1/M2 MacBooks to a crawl and causes them to overheat due to "significant memory usage" whenever engaging with Disqus. All around, pure trash.

Thumbnail of user billb231
Arizona
1 review
14 helpful votes
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August 12th, 2017

This is a fatal flaw. My first post, deleted, by the moderator, and as the post is not visible after deletion, I'm not sure what the problem was! I was accused of making an insult--WTF? I was talking about a book list, for crying out loud, not Donald Trump! Clearly, other reviews here support my account. The Disqus business model can't collapse soon enough for my tastes...

Thumbnail of user aaronh342
Louisiana
1 review
8 helpful votes
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August 16th, 2020

I've long been suspicious of Disqus as I have views that cross the spectrum of liberal and conservative. I've noticed that only my conservative views were removed and clearly without a review. Reeks of censorship

Thumbnail of user valerieh218
Canada
1 review
4 helpful votes
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December 3rd, 2019

It is true that humans have a big impact on the earth. We also have a responsibility to reduce pollution, mass consumerism and waste. We can turn down the heat, reduce, recycle, and use public transport. But regardless - the global climate has never been stable, and never will be stable. The article lost credibility with me when he claimed that Greta Thunberg speaks "prophetic words". The only correlation between climate change and Greta Thunberg - is that both are unstable. I wonder what caused all the climate change a few hundred years ago? Until Greta came along I was sort of on the fence with the whole climate change belief system. But after listening to her and seeing how the media and certain celebrities support her like she is a cultish guru - the more I see it as a complete hoax. After all - illusions of grandeur aside, she is a child who dropped out of school and does not even know what she is talking about. It makes a complete farce out of a complex subject

Thumbnail of user mikec300
New York
1 review
23 helpful votes
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November 28th, 2018

You know, people can hate Trump - I get it. I love Trump's policies (you would have to be an idiot not to), but think his off the cuff comments can be stupid and ridiculous. But, why does Disqus have to join the zombie mindless crazed groups who refuse to be fair?

Thumbnail of user michaelg2744
Australia
1 review
5 helpful votes
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December 4th, 2020

DISQUS is the enemy of free speech. I would recommend that everyone should avoid this far left organisation who's platforms are used to censor free speech at the whim of a Moderator without any recourse from those being censored.

Thumbnail of user brianm1235
Canada
1 review
17 helpful votes
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April 6th, 2020

Disqus has to be the very worst comment app out there. I am so glad that TheTyee.ca allows one to log in with Twitter, Google, Facebook and not just that frustrating to register with Disqus program. I do wish that TheTyee.ca would just get rid of the damn thing as it certainly has in the past kept me from making any comments.

Thumbnail of user lorid1
Pennsylvania
2 reviews
22 helpful votes
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April 11th, 2017

I got banned because I said I am a woman who voted for trump. I didn't think it was a bad comment but I would not recommend this site! I think it's who you like. If you say something they don't like or even use exclamation marks they won't post it. Don't waste your time!

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