Automattic Acquires Intense Debate
September 23, 2008
I’m pleased to announce that Intense Debate is now an Automattic joint.
Intense Debate is a richly interactive comment system that includes cool features like threading, reply by email, voting, reputation, and global profiles.
For more details on the product and our plans, check out my blog, Toni’s blog, and Jon’s blog at Intense Debate.
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I can’t wait!
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This sounds good, but please do not implement (intrusive, mandatory, and gaudy) advertisements as a means to furnish these features. I have migrated to WordPress from LiveJournal which had fine communities and threaded comments, but was basically eaten alive by ugly ads (especially so for users from Russia and former Soviet Republics, for some reason). Based on this experience, I am weary about the “more is better” attitude.
So far, I am very pleased with WordPress!
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@finchwench: Don’t worry. “Intrusive, mandatory and gaudy” isn’t our style. Check out this post on our current ad policy.
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good news I read that yesterday In a teck news site
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Brilliant!!
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so far, so good
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Sweet.. if only I could get some comments now 😛
Any word on when we’ll see the new functionality?
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can’t wait to have it on my blog! 😀
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Awesome!
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Great!
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s0 far so good
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Very cool. You guys rock.
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Awesome! So is this going to be part of our commenting system in the future?
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Finally
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I can’t wait! wooooow
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Sounds good
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is thiw will be new feature in wordpress? i can’t wait for it. this will make reply comment more easy 😉
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woaaaw! very very good
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these are features i didn’t know i even needed. now that you’ve brought this to my attention, i can’t live on without it.
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In my opinion threaded comments suck. If the commenters have a brain it can work, but if your commenters don’t pay attention, or are newbs, they get confuse and post replies to the wrong comments and it becomes a mess.
It won’t really matter to me though, I barely have any hits, much less comments.
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Sounds good.. Keep it up guys 🙂
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Great ! when is it coming up for our use ?
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Good news!
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Sound’s great.
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Matt:
The Reputation feature of Intense Debate is troubling to a lot of people. It reminds us of Tim Berners Lee’s and O’Reilly’s misguided “Truth authority” proposals.
Basically, a trust/reputation metric is not only susceptible to social gaming and hacker attacks but forces everyone to play by a set of implicit rules, i.e. play politics, to increase their reputation.
And so you end up with LIES (like the ones our reputable politicians tell us) being pushed to the top and critical thinking getting neutered.
It’s a distinctly bad feature.
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legal
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is the wordpress is buy from Live.com
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@namila007: I’m not clear on your question, but Live.com is not related to this acquisition.
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cool
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You keep proving again and again why you’re the very best blogging platform in existence.
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When can we use it? how?
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intresting———–lets see
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nice
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Great cant wait
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THANKS….VERY GOOD,VERY NICE,VERY BEAUTIFFUL,VERY COOL,VERY GREAT AND MILLION VERY…..
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Good sounds 🙂
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Gooood job.
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Jah Jah!
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nice article…
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That’s awesome! Looking forward to the new features.
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Let’s c what its could be..
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good idea
That’s awesome! Looking forward to the new features.
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very good site for blogs and all
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you guys rule 🙂
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It’s the good idea … !!!
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bener juga, thank’s very good for blog
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I just signed up for IntenseDebate ! I Looking forward to using it on my blog
Devin Willis
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wordpress is the best!
congratulations!
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super
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I like it!
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I love it
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Nice!
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mmm.. cool i like
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I Like it
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look forward to some interesting mixups from you guys!
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It may be an effective forum for debate on very crucial issues to which the contemperary world is confronting with.
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Great NEWS!!! Let is ride!
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how doy ou activate this..?? or it’s not available yet..??
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@A World of My Own: It’s not yet available. You can sign up for updates here.
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oh seems like great job
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Great idea!
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schweeet
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Great!! 🙂
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Can’t wait to see WordPress with Intense Debate :b
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Good job!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Great news, I want that comment threading system.
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Glad to hear it guys!
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WordPress is really moving up there. Its awesome that opensource could be so useful.
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Had never heard of intense debate before. I checked it out.
Intense Debate=stressful
I think I’ll just crawl back into my cave of security and agreement.
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cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I Like it
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Very nice idea!!! Keep it up!
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i am glad to be in this area
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Excellent. How soon is it coming to WordPress.com?
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oh very fantastic news…..
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COOL DUDE!
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a nice blog
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That’s a really good idea.
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Very cool!!
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Ok…
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Wow that is awesome. Can’t wait to learn more about it.
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fantastic I await your unvailing
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Bravo, thanks wordpress, thanks guys
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heh
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Awesome news.. Keep up all good working. That why I like WordPress.
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Matt, you are a genius and will be rewarded for your innovations!
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Very Cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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