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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 ellenr29
Mississippi
2 reviews
27 helpful votes
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December 27th, 2016

I made a comment regarding a show on TLC, which was about an obese woman, that started the show to encourage others with her addiction to lose weight, but to maintain and not undermine their self esteem. I thought her efforts were wonderful and much needed. I work in the education system and there is a common deep concern for the escalating numbers of children that are obese. The second season was a complete turnaround. The young lady had gained 150 pounds and according to her was, "happy being fat". She bullied thin people and encouraged other over weight people to do the same. She and one of her friends on the show, participated in stalking a thin person, bullying her at a restaurant and calling her names, including the C word. I made a comment regarding the behavior and added that our PTA had put the show on our banned viewing list. I also encouraged the young lady to revert to her initial intent, as it was a worthy and much needed cause. Some Moderator from there blasted me with every kind of insult they could conjure, such as homophobic, Trumpster, moron, B word and much more. I never mentioned sexuality of any kind, didn't mention politics of any kind and did not call anyone a name of any kind. I deleted my account with them immediately, yet the Moderator stalked me to another site and started railing verbal abuse at me there too. The site had nothing to do with the previous one. A few weeks later, I attempted to make a comment on another site and received a message that I had been banned on all Disqus sites. I will not even read material on any site that uses Disqus services anymore. I consider Disqus to be irrational editors and dangerous online stalkers.

Thumbnail of user paulscottfilms
Thailand
1 review
4 helpful votes
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May 3rd, 2023

Disqus has been well known for a time for censoring and blocking moderate and good value reply posts

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Thumbnail of user mordam
New Jersey
1 review
8 helpful votes
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April 1st, 2018

I don't know who in a right state of mind would use this platform, it is a slow, unreliable behemoth! Why are we forced to use it?

Thumbnail of user chasew18
Georgia
1 review
18 helpful votes
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April 30th, 2018

All left, all the time! They cant take diffrent opinions, or facts. Every poin I made was deleted, I'll just sit back and watch them eat themselves.

Thumbnail of user tomd787
Texas
3 reviews
3 helpful votes
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May 10th, 2021
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Oann lost a loyal visitor by choosing to use disquis as their chat provider

There is no free speech so why even be there

Tip for consumers:
avoid discus unless you really like big brother monitoring and censoring your comments

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Negative 10 stars
May 3rd, 2021
• Previous review

Oann are idiots for using this trash heap

Massive big brother presence. No free speech at all

I will do everything to make this awful company go out of business

Tip for consumers:
only one good feature was ability to block chicom trolls but apparently that is their base

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Thumbnail of user denid5
Pennsylvania
1 review
15 helpful votes
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August 30th, 2018

A Military Veteran wrote a comment how his experiences on Disqus were banned because he felt the Republican party was more supportive of those who fight for their country.

He was almost banned and given a written warning as if he was a naughty toddler. I wrote a reply to him that I felt his post was excellent and he provided definitive proof of his experience with Disqus.

I then received a warning that Disqus did not provide for Freedom of Speech. Note, neither the Army Vet nor I used abusive language, nothing we wrote was obscene (both of us are Christian). It did not matter; it was clear their "Naziesque Reviewers"ban people who do not TOTALLY AGREE with their Progressive mind-set. I immediately wrote back to the "Ban Camp" (that's the reviewers moniker) I would remove my account & I also insisted, I'd not receive Junk Mail, SPAM nor Adverts from their sites as since I Registered on "Disgus" my SPAM & JUNK MAIL increased by 20-30 email each day. Good riddance to Disqus... they should be known as DISGUSTING!

Thumbnail of user digmans
Pennsylvania
1 review
14 helpful votes
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February 9th, 2019

This site is all liberal views You cannot go against their belief's. They will ban you or block you.

Thumbnail of user margaretb87
Washington
3 reviews
57 helpful votes
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August 18th, 2016

I noticed that about 8 months ago, my comments have ALL been marked as SPAM. They are not. I contacted a few of the websites I posted on, and one answered back, saying that Disqus did not even let him see my post. When I was ready to post a comment to his website, I sent him an email, and then I posted. Then I sent him an email saying I posted. He looked and said my comment did not even show up for him to see!

That was about a week ago. At that time, I went to my Disqus account page, and could see the 20 or 30 comments I had made over the previous 8 months. When I went there today, they were all removed. I guess that solves Disqus' embarrassing situation when I complain to the websites, and they find out my posts have been disallowed before they even see them!

I wish I had been cynical enough to copy that page when I found it. Fool that I am!

Further update: I logged out of my account, and logged back in, and all my posts are there. At least I've got them to put on my own website at some point in the indefinite future.
Too bad there aren't negative stars I could give them.

I know what started it because they sent me an email saying I was banned. It was a comment I made to someone's post that the US is free because there is no press censorship. My comment named ten or so journalists and investigators who had been murdered or "suicided". BOOM. No more posting for me!

UPDATE: A few days after this review went live, Disqus removed all the comments I made that they had marked as SPAM from my account putting to lie their claim that I own the material! Too late smart. I copied all the comments I made more than 8 months ago, in case they decide to delete those, as well.

Thumbnail of user zxvvvfv
Wisconsin
1 review
0 helpful votes
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April 20th, 2021

Another service that sold out its customization and benefits for its community for a larger profit. I hope this company dies out.

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Thumbnail of user uzulab
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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May 20th, 2017

Such a wonderful way to make friends and wonderful discussion place, very educational, one can create great channels and meet wonderful people

Thumbnail of user roberth477
Illinois
1 review
12 helpful votes
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April 3rd, 2018

Tags you as spam either if your replies are are to long or if they don't like your position... not sure which.

Thumbnail of user bobp329
Washington
1 review
15 helpful votes
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January 15th, 2020

I'm a Conservative. I post Conservative comments
Believe it or Not - I got banned for saying. "Get a Job".

Thumbnail of user shawn.duncan972
Connecticut
2 reviews
10 helpful votes
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July 26th, 2023

Heavily censored for no apparent reason. Also, I was not allowed to mention seize assets.This is preposterous editing.

Thumbnail of user koshergrlk
Oregon
3 reviews
60 helpful votes
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August 28th, 2017

Mods go through and remove every post that challenges the depraved commie narrative. Disgusting lot of trolls.

Thumbnail of user ronb257
Arizona
1 review
17 helpful votes
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May 29th, 2018

In the last few days Disqus logs me out and I have to re-login each day. Their system offers no support.

Thumbnail of user alanv21
Kansas
4 reviews
33 helpful votes
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May 29th, 2018

I just got banned off all disqus sites. Complete white out of the comment section for saying nothing much.

Thumbnail of user zappb
California
1 review
14 helpful votes
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August 16th, 2018

Disqus has a clear left wing political agenda. Every comment I make is instantly marked as spam never to get approved.

Thumbnail of user sharonp83
Maryland
1 review
29 helpful votes
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December 19th, 2016

Do not join this site. They will ban you for no reason and then keep your private information. Horrible group of people.

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New York
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Thumbnail of user robertm457
District of Columbia
4 reviews
66 helpful votes
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February 22nd, 2017

Disqus is a cult of pro-Left, pro-Marxist corporations who are using Disqus on as many platforms as possible for maximum possible censorship. These people are as Satanist as they get, if you mention ANYTHING about Jesus Christ, God, or TRUTH of Human History they will DELETE/FLAG your comments as spam.

Spread the word as much as possible! Google is even deleting posts that expose the FRAUD and ABUSE of this company... We must ALL rebel against them; Google; YouTube; Facebook; Twitter; Reddit; Voat and now Disqus...

Infowars.com was my favorite place to go and now it's loaded with pay-to-play troll comments, most aren't even legitimate but completely artificial!

THERE IS A POLITICAL AGENDA AFOOT TO RID YOU OF YOUR FIRST AMENDMENT! PLEASE SPREAD WORD, DISQUS IS THE PRIMARY POLITICAL TOOL TO FOOL MILLIONS OF AMERICANS INTO BELIEVING ANYTHING THE MARXIST ELITES DESIRE!

ALEX JONES IS AWARE OF THE CENSORSHIP. LET IT BE KNOWN ACROSS THE ENTIRE WORLD, WE ARE DEALING WITH SATANISTS AND THE OCCULT! PLEASE EXPOSE THIS FRAUD!

Godbless. Farewell. And Expose These Lunatics for What They Really Are!

Thumbnail of user georges175
Pennsylvania
2 reviews
21 helpful votes
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February 3rd, 2016

I saw a large number of rhetorical, anti-conservative "questions" (propaganda statements masquerading as questions), and so to test the waters, I posted the following:

Why is Hillary's untrustworthiness ignored by her followers?

It was flagged as follows:

Question That Contains Assumptions: Why is Hillary's untrustworthiness ignored by her followers?

Another reader wrote:

I'm not sure why someone changed this to "contains assumptions". Her untrustworthiness is supported by numerous polls. Or are you challenging that it is ignored?

My response, when I saw what Quora had done to my question, was:

Hah! I have asked on a number of occasions on this forum why the questions are slanted anti-conservative (does Trump's mother know he eats kittens?), and so I posed the question following the colon. Some moderator added the "Question... Assumptions:" preface - thereby proving my point about the bias of Quora.

I posed the question in response to some nonsense assumption-laced (but not prefaced) question about Republican candidates - I think it was "Why are young people repulsed by Donald Trump?" when, obviously from tonight's results in the Iowa Caucus, they are not. It was followed by an obvious set-up propaganda answer talking about how wonderful and positive young people are, in contrast to the "fear-mongering" Trump. Just an attempt to propagandize using a "forum" as an "honest discourse"cover to make it seem like an honest answer.

Her untrustworthiness is unquestionable, of long standing, and reinforced by her bald-faced lie about how she was asked a question "just yesterday" that in fact, she had conjured up herself weeks before, and was caught lying about it on camera. Glad you asked."

So: the fact that it, unlike numerous other questions like it but with an anti-conservative bias, was flagged as "containing assumptions" and restricted in distribution until I changed the question - that bias-based censorship has eliminated it as a forum for exchange of ideas, in my book.

Thumbnail of user emmal137
GB
1 review
17 helpful votes
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January 7th, 2019

What can I say. I posted a comment about Jazmine Barnes story. I had some doubts. My comments were removed.

Thumbnail of user ce181
Ohio
1 review
6 helpful votes
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March 25th, 2023

Horrible service and should be deee.ed unfit for business and be shut down permanently. They openly censor free speech

Thumbnail of user tonyd404
New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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May 26th, 2020

There are so many fake accounts and bots who give upvotes and downvotes. Disquis is no longer a discussion platform but a cheerleader forum.

Thumbnail of user rohanr8
Canada
1 review
19 helpful votes
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June 5th, 2015

There are moderator abusing their power and a lot of censorship plus cyber bullying. Poor chating system that abuses is rampant

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