Comments on: The New Chicago Carless http://www.chicagocarless.com/2010/02/07/the-new-chicago-carless/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-new-chicago-carless My off-road journey to Judaism Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:03:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Why I Pulled JS-Kit Echo Comments Off My Blog | CHICAGO CARLESS http://www.chicagocarless.com/2010/02/07/the-new-chicago-carless/comment-page-1/#comment-3919 Why I Pulled JS-Kit Echo Comments Off My Blog | CHICAGO CARLESS Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:56:06 +0000 http://www.chicagocarless.com/?p=1159#comment-3919 [...] part of my recent reboot of Chicago Carless, I’ve been looking for a way to update the commenting system to give [...] [...] part of my recent reboot of Chicago Carless, I’ve been looking for a way to update the commenting system to give [...]

]]> By: Mike Doyle http://www.chicagocarless.com/2010/02/07/the-new-chicago-carless/comment-page-1/#comment-3908 Mike Doyle Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:42:24 +0000 http://www.chicagocarless.com/?p=1159#comment-3908 So here's the deal with commenting. I tried out JS-Kit Echo comments which allowed you to sign in with your favorite social-media account and were real-time. (You could see new comments appear as you were typing yours.) But they were unable to catch trackback pings, the Support Wiki on their site was a mess of incompletely updated and poorly written instructions, and the company reps in the support forum were equally difficult to communicate with. After reading through what looks like months of complaints about the trackback issue, I've removed the service from Chicago Carless. I may try Disqus next. Bonus, though, I've now removed all moderation except for Akismet, so your comments will now appear live :-) So here’s the deal with commenting. I tried out JS-Kit Echo comments which allowed you to sign in with your favorite social-media account and were real-time. (You could see new comments appear as you were typing yours.) But they were unable to catch trackback pings, the Support Wiki on their site was a mess of incompletely updated and poorly written instructions, and the company reps in the support forum were equally difficult to communicate with. After reading through what looks like months of complaints about the trackback issue, I’ve removed the service from Chicago Carless. I may try Disqus next.

Bonus, though, I’ve now removed all moderation except for Akismet, so your comments will now appear live :-)

]]> By: The ADHDeer-in-Headlights Syndrome | CHICAGO CARLESS http://www.chicagocarless.com/2010/02/07/the-new-chicago-carless/comment-page-1/#comment-3900 The ADHDeer-in-Headlights Syndrome | CHICAGO CARLESS Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:48:56 +0000 http://www.chicagocarless.com/?p=1159#comment-3900 [...] pleasantly surprised to have been welcomed into the close community of ADHD bloggers. My recent re-theming of Chicago Carless was inspired by “Jeff” of the popular blog, Jeff’s A.D.D. [...] [...] pleasantly surprised to have been welcomed into the close community of ADHD bloggers. My recent re-theming of Chicago Carless was inspired by “Jeff” of the popular blog, Jeff’s A.D.D. [...]

]]> By: Andy - The Digitante http://www.chicagocarless.com/2010/02/07/the-new-chicago-carless/comment-page-1/#comment-3840 Andy - The Digitante Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:09:58 +0000 http://www.chicagocarless.com/?p=1159#comment-3840 This may depend on how many comments and visitors you get, but on my site, I am required to moderate the first comment left and then that person is allowed to comment unmoderated from then on. It is by email address so if they switched, they would have to be moderated again, but I've found it to be pretty easy. I do have a limited amount of commenting however. Also, an opportunity for comment email subscriptions would be nice. I use Subscribe to Comments by Mark Jaquith. It allows you to subscribe when commenting or you can even subscribe without commenting (bonus!). This may depend on how many comments and visitors you get, but on my site, I am required to moderate the first comment left and then that person is allowed to comment unmoderated from then on. It is by email address so if they switched, they would have to be moderated again, but I’ve found it to be pretty easy. I do have a limited amount of commenting however.

Also, an opportunity for comment email subscriptions would be nice. I use Subscribe to Comments by Mark Jaquith. It allows you to subscribe when commenting or you can even subscribe without commenting (bonus!).

]]> By: Mike Doyle http://www.chicagocarless.com/2010/02/07/the-new-chicago-carless/comment-page-1/#comment-3821 Mike Doyle Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:25:11 +0000 http://www.chicagocarless.com/?p=1159#comment-3821 Matt, I'm glad you like the new layout. I think we're going on three years we're waiting to meet, by the way! Charles, thank you for supporting the potential registration feature. The ads are per click, and yes you are ;-) And moreover, thanks for taking the second-hand Macbook off my hands! Matt, I’m glad you like the new layout. I think we’re going on three years we’re waiting to meet, by the way!

Charles, thank you for supporting the potential registration feature. The ads are per click, and yes you are ;-) And moreover, thanks for taking the second-hand Macbook off my hands!

]]> By: Charles McPhate http://www.chicagocarless.com/2010/02/07/the-new-chicago-carless/comment-page-1/#comment-3818 Charles McPhate Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:34:18 +0000 http://www.chicagocarless.com/?p=1159#comment-3818 I wouldn't have any problem with registering if you decided to activate it. I have a great distaste for anonymous commenters -- everywhere I've seen them allowed, discourse tends to drop to an adolescent level. Nothing reduces adults to childhood as effectively as anonymity -- except perhaps the Super Bowl. Is the ad revenue per click or per view? If they're per view (aka per impression), I'll disable AdBlock Plus on your site. If they're per click, then it doesn't really matter if I see them, since I almost never click ads that do get past the block. (Yeah, I'm the worst kind of web user, huh?) Oh, and I like the ability to edit comments for up to five minutes after submitting them. I wouldn’t have any problem with registering if you decided to activate it. I have a great distaste for anonymous commenters — everywhere I’ve seen them allowed, discourse tends to drop to an adolescent level. Nothing reduces adults to childhood as effectively as anonymity — except perhaps the Super Bowl.

Is the ad revenue per click or per view? If they’re per view (aka per impression), I’ll disable AdBlock Plus on your site. If they’re per click, then it doesn’t really matter if I see them, since I almost never click ads that do get past the block. (Yeah, I’m the worst kind of web user, huh?)

Oh, and I like the ability to edit comments for up to five minutes after submitting them.

]]> By: Matt http://www.chicagocarless.com/2010/02/07/the-new-chicago-carless/comment-page-1/#comment-3802 Matt Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:56:31 +0000 http://www.chicagocarless.com/?p=1159#comment-3802 Very clean. I like it. Very clean. I like it.

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