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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 608th 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 shmuleyl
Maryland
1 review
16 helpful votes
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March 11th, 2022

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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Pennsylvania
27 reviews
94 helpful votes
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January 16th, 2024

Now, about YouTube and its fecal ridden garbage, I write a comment saying that I want the Feds to lock up Neal Mohan, and they idiotically flag it as spam! I want justice, not Nazis taking over the Goddamn internet! If Joe Biden is reading this comment, he has failed his people. In fact, I might actually vote for Trump. It's time for these pea brained penises to stop censoring the dissatisfied consumers!

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Time for the FTC to do a cleansing of the internet. Get rid of these scam artists and punish the websites who support them!

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Thumbnail of user jesser2
California
79 reviews
213 helpful votes
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March 3rd, 2016

For almost a year now, anything I post on Disqus is "Detected as spam" or if I attempt to make a new post rather than comment on some article "Marked as spam".

It is depressing that so many websites and blogs use Disqus when there are many other viable commenting systems. I try to avoid sites that rely on this terrible format.

Tip for consumers:
have fun with it

Thumbnail of user miket1610
France
1 review
4 helpful votes
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June 18th, 2022

Sincerely, several times, I avoid this platform after the stupidity I came across such as creating a stupid account but they won't let you log in. I changed the password I don't know how many times, used either the email address or the username. The site still malfunction and says one of the three is invalid. But am I a moron when I used the reset function with my email address and you don't care if the password is highly protected or not? Just go change job!

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Thumbnail of user pamc48
Wisconsin
2 reviews
18 helpful votes
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February 26th, 2017

We need no more hate in this world. Maybe disqus needs an overhaul, get rid of trash sites, Raw is prime for the garbage can, when a place promotes hate against our police force, they need to be dropped

Thumbnail of user dt103
New Jersey
1 review
30 helpful votes
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May 29th, 2018

Continually marks comments as SPAM. Stifle meaningful conversation due to personal bias. Run by a group of bigots. This is how they sensor you. This company has no right monitoring discussion boards. All places that incorporate disqus would be better off without it.

Tip for consumers:
Don't sign up at disqus. You will thank me later.

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Thumbnail of user johnh1751
Arizona
1 review
2 helpful votes
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October 24th, 2018

This site keeps pointing out Trump's mistakes and lies. I am already well aware that he is a moron and will watch him speak if I need reminding. I get tired of having to log in constantly, and reading the same familiar things. From now on, everything Disqus goes to SPAM garbage.

Thumbnail of user joeym43
Czechia
1 review
16 helpful votes
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October 29th, 2016

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?

Tip for consumers:
Don't let the trolls get you down. Just block them!

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Thumbnail of user jimbol
New York
1 review
44 helpful votes
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June 25th, 2020

I noticed that not one media outlet on Disqus is conservative, not one. If this is the direction censorship is moving then we all need to really widen our eyes and see between the lines. I would never wish to silence any side, as I am a believer in freedom of speech. Last time I chimed in, death threats were bombarded at me. It's insane. For your own sanity find a better place to debate. Let the people their continue with their insane antics.

Thumbnail of user chavahb
New York
2 reviews
28 helpful votes
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June 15th, 2016

Disqus has been nothing but a hassle to try to use as an interaction tool. Every time I post something that someone doesn't agree with (there's ALWAYS someone & it tends to be a zealot of some sort) all they have to do is type "@troll" and my post gets kicked off. It's happened enough times that Disqus banned me causing me to have to re-register. So basically they have enabled bullies in censoring the voices & opinions of those they want to shut up. Nice job Disqus! (Addendum: have been banned, again, not worth it to keep re-registering. What a disgusting display of censorship. Disqus really does allow Bigots, Racists & Zealots to control the comment sections - That tells us all we need to know)

Thumbnail of user sarder
Canada
1 review
17 helpful votes
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August 27th, 2018

I noticed I got shadow banned around the same time that infowars was cut from their service. I went from 10+ comment replies per day to nothing for the last 18 days now. I am still commentating on all the other sites I use save infowars. Yet oddly no is replying anymore. Almost like my posts are invisible to everyone except me.

Real great quality service that. When you cannot counter argue you just shut their speech down like a fascist.

Thumbnail of user summ228
Illinois
5 reviews
39 helpful votes
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May 4th, 2019

For years now whenever I try to comment favorably on a concept increasingly disliked by liberal media, I get a generic Disqus error message. But when my comment is in line with the general media sentiments, I can comment just fine. It happens far too consistently to be due to chance. I'm confident Disqus is just another social media site engaging in social engineering. Of course it fails. You can't stop people from holding the values they do or having the perceptions they have simply by silencing them on your platform.

Shame on any media site that censors polite, legal, respectful comments JUST because the theses don't give with those of the site and its supporters.

Thumbnail of user jayjayc
Indiana
1 review
51 helpful votes
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April 6th, 2020

Been on disqus a long time today they removed all of my posts. Aside from having a conservative lean mine are not mean or nasty. But good enough done with them, they are obviously in the political fight of their lives (dems) and have to stoop to
Underhanded tactics, like this shutting down of the President's rally's. This will probably be removed as well. Long live free speech!

Thumbnail of user georgeb947
Washington
3 reviews
19 helpful votes
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July 20th, 2020

Disqus seems to have zero rules for posting that are enforced regularly and across comment makers. They allow rude and racist comments to stand. They will mark your comment as spam if you are able to prove another poster wrong, even if you do so without profanity or personal attacks. It's about whether the moderators personally like what you're posting and not any standard. The quality of posters on Disqus are rather low however. So I'm not upset about this as it's really more of a playground for people who like to talk tough over the internet but you now they don't have the courage to say the same things in public.

If you're looking for thoughtful discourse Disqus is the furthest thing from your desires.

Thumbnail of user alexanderw58
Malaysia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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July 19th, 2019

Disqus is a comprehensive commenting system and it does a great job when it comes to moderation. If you ever need help or technical support, be prepared to receive zero response even if you're a Pro account user. I had an issue about payment and they took more than two weeks to reply to me. Imagine me as a customer that is trying to pay them but they didn't entertain my complaints after 3 follow up emails. Eventually, I solved the issue on my own almost 3 weeks alter.

For a service that charges 99 USD a month for a Pro account, I would expect support that can respond within 3 days.

Thumbnail of user johnh1645
Arizona
4 reviews
19 helpful votes
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November 12th, 2018

They continually point out Trump's false statements, which is unnecessary. We can all listen to Trump babble lies all day long. Nobody needs reminding of his stench... https://www.metro.us/president-trump/trump-lies-hit-the-5000-count-experts-say-theyre-accelerating... https://www.metro.us/president-trump/trump-lies-hit-the-5000-count-experts-say-theyre-accelerating.

Thumbnail of user johns1258
Illinois
6 reviews
27 helpful votes
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July 28th, 2017

Would be nice to have a site like Disqus actually work for people to comment. Without being degraded, made fun of, or called names because somebody finds it amusing to make rude comments and not really ever contribute to the topic. Obviously we all know some of these kinds of people who now have a platform to shout out how great they are and how low you are. These people are why many sites are dropping comment altogether. Probably just as well. Disqus is not helping in maintaining a respectable comment site for discussions.

Thumbnail of user adp9
Massachusetts
1 review
2 helpful votes
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January 12th, 2021

Disqus will censor you to no end, if you're not a Socialist or a Liberal or a Democrat. Simple as that. Don't waste your time trying to express your thoughts on any website who's comments section is run by Disqus. You're better off just emailing that website's customer service and telling them you won't be visiting their website while they use Disqus. We're supposed to be the land of the free, home of the brave. We're supposed to have freedom to express ourselves. Websites like Disqus are censoring anyone even close to center-right and right. That's not how Freedom of Speech works. Be warned.

Tip for consumers:
Not a Liberal or Socialist? Don't bother posting your opinions then. They'll sensor you.

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Thumbnail of user edg109
Florida
2 reviews
10 helpful votes
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April 29th, 2022

Just like YouTube Disqus does massive shadow censorship. They also put you in Disqus jail (your comment might not show up for an hour or two or even 24 hrs as in my case). My comments are never published in real time. I would give Disqus 0 stars if I could.

Thumbnail of user immal2
South Carolina
1 review
25 helpful votes
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July 12th, 2016

They should change the name to disgruntled. I'm not surprised this is a San Francisco lefty operation. Up is down and right is wrong in this bizarro world decent into Socialist madness. Anti-law & order folks can go and drink the cool aid.

Thumbnail of user sheilah190
Florida
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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December 16th, 2019

It used to work but not anymore. ABC news has comments section run by Diqus but you can only read the first few comments and then there are long streaks of black, then nothing... fix it please. This has been going on for a couple of months.

Thumbnail of user skyk
Spain
58 reviews
312 helpful votes
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April 13th, 2010

Disqus is feature rich commenting system for blogs. I have been using it on my blog for a while and my readers seem satisfied with it. Lately the support department hasn`t been as effective as before to address support requests, but I am confident that that`s only a temporary issue.

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Terry H.
Brazil
1 review
16 helpful votes
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April 13th, 2017

I respectfully stand by my contention that there is no free speech on Disqus. All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. A proclamation by the pigs who control the government in the novel Animal Farm, by George Orwell. You need to look no further than to my blocking on TMZ for my daring to comment on behalf of O.J. Simpson. Even though my comments involved the reiteration of facts within the public domain. While every other post of his personal vilification was allowed to stand. So their claim that only abusive or ad hominem posts are removed proves the contrary to be true.

Thumbnail of user shannah11
Mississippi
1 review
8 helpful votes
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November 10th, 2017

What company doesn't have a customer service phone number to call and speak to a human to help resolve ongoing issues?! It doesn't matter how many times I try to explain that the "reply in email" feature is not working, and how many times can "support" reply that I can simply go on-line to approve comments. Step, repeat. Step, repeat. We just keep going around in circles.

Thumbnail of user mavez
Nigeria
1 review
4 helpful votes
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November 18th, 2017

I learnt about the website from a friend and i got into it, it's a place to tell discuss your opinion with people and get comments based on what your topic says or your question... i love this community.

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