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Looking at Disqus: appending #disqus_thread?

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Kip Kniskern
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on Wed, Dec 16 2009 6:37 PM

The spamming of our membership is way out of control, and we're looking at moving to www.disqus.com to handle our comments (we don't operate forums, and only use membership to control comments).  So far so good, but Disqus is asking to append  "#disqus_thread" to "the end of the post permalink", which has got me a little lost.  Can I append this to:

 <CSBlog:WeblogPostData Text="{0} comment(s)" Property="Replies" LinkTo="PostComments" runat="server">

...in the postlist.aspx?  Anyone using Disqus?

Any help/advice/pointers would be greatly appreciated

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  • Kip Kniskern
    Posted by
    on Sat, Dec 26 2009 1:16 PM

    In case anyone cares, here's the amended line:

    <CSBlog:WeblogPostData Text="Post a comment!" Property="Subject" LinkTo="Post" runat="server" LinkQueryStringModification="#disqus_thread" />

    The "Post a comment" text is replaced with the Disqus script, but I'm guessing this will allow for some graceful degradation
  • Kip Kniskern
    Posted by
    on Sat, Jan 2 2010 12:36 PM

    Turns out that wasn't exactly right, either.  LinkQueryStringModification adds a ? + the passed variable, so using the above line created <post>?#disqus_thread.  What I really needed to use was LinkTargetLocationModification, which adds #.  So the proper line should read:

    <CSBlog:WeblogPostData Property="Subject" LinkTo="Post" LinkTargetLocationModification="disqus_thread" runat="server" />
  • Patrick dh
    Posted by
    on Mon, Mar 1 2010 2:57 AM

    Hi kip, are you completely satisfied with the solution? Do you think if you operated forum - would they be affected?  
  • Kip Kniskern
    Posted by
    on Tue, Mar 2 2010 6:53 PM

    Disqus seems to be working very well for us, and it solved the (SEO backlink) spam problem by allowing us to completely shut down creation of new user accounts.  I doubt that it would be an acceptable solution for forums, as you wouldn't have all the features (ratings, threads, post counts, etc) readily available to you within CS.  For just the few blog comments we get, though, it has eliminated the headaches caused by user creation spam (not so much comment spam itself, but users created to allow backlinks in profiles)

    The particulars of incorporating Disqus into CS have worked very well, too, and Disqus has been making progress on speeding up things on their end.  So yes we are completely satisfied.