Disqus Reviews 136

My attempts to join Disqus to post comments on a website just failed. I did everything I was supposed to do multiple times. Entering the password twice exactly the same might have been the hang up. These days with long passwords, I need to be able to see them. Systems where you can't do that, like Disqus, are frustrating. There's no one in the room but me to see the password. What's the problem?

Commenters on another website I frequent complain about Disqus. They have had trouble logging in and more. The same spammer will post the same spam a hundred times + over long periods of time. No one interferes. You wonder if the spammer pays Disqus or the website.

In Spite of Disqus' Tracking IP Numbers, Professional Trolls & Shills Posting Under Multiple Names Are Not Stopped.

One commenter is an unbelievably foul-mouthed misogynist troll. He also uses other identities to make it look like other people like him (a common tactic of professional trolls). He eventually was banned temporarily, but he and the and his sock puppets came back, same as before. One guy mercilessly trolled a popular commenter who had inside information on prominent people. He used many different related identities that were recognizable as him. For a long time he wasn't stopped.

As on many sites, hordes of fake posters appear from nowhere to appear to care desperately about the Markles, furiously "arguing" about them on unrelated threads. I'll bet all the comments have a single IP number. There are also professional shills injecting divisive political insults into unrelated threads or claiming their neighbor died of a popular illness, etc. Some of this happens elsewhere, but it's interesting that Disqus tracks IP numbers but doesn't seem to use the info productively.

I had to contact the parent company of a blog that uses the Disqus comment platform, in order to have racist hate speech removed from a beauty and skin care blog. The comments were coming from a member in Portugal or Brazil, who had a history of making vile comments on Disqus. The parent company decided to completely disable comments on the blogger's page. Well and good, but Disqus must ENFORCE its hate speech policy and permanently ban racist commenters. Just disabling comments is not enough.

I sent a parcel to Italy nearly two weeks ago worth £75 and DPD are the worst service I have ever dealt with.
My cousin received an email from customs wanting 38 euros and the parcel dident arrive, I sent many emails and received no response, customer services won't answer your calls and web chat is a waste of time. Please don't bother with them as I paid £20 to send the item, they take the money off people and don't deliver. Avoid like the plague

There are several reasons why I hate Disqus but I will mention one of them. Disqus provides a means of flagging a comment if it violates a website's policy. I don't flag comments that I simply disagree with, but I DO flag comments if they are clearly spam, or promote hate or violence against a person or group. I discovered the other day that I can no longer flag comments on a certain news site. Other commenters told me that I must have "abused" the flagging feature. The real reason I believe is political "bias" from Disqus.

Just now, on another news site, I tried to flag a spam comment ("Hi! I make $50 an hour doing nothing, for more info look here: web address", and found that Disqus has removed my ability to flag comments, not on one web site, but across the board! When I asked Disqus about this I was told that websites themselves set the parameters, but this is a lie. NO web site is going to block a reader from flagging a SPAM comment, as described above.

I haven't use the service for like 10 years and today I found my account is auto spamming like 100 comments per second and cannot do anything:
- Cannot change password. The confirmation email didn't come
- Cannot batch delete the comments.
- Cannot even find the commend to delete on the dashboard. I have to open the destination site and there are a few hundred comments there for me to search for my comment.

Disqus's system prevents specific browser extensions from allowing users to log into their accounts on websites outside of the Disqus website itself. Which is laughable to say the least. Also, some Disqus comment sections are clustered with spammers and trolling. It's a hit-or-miss type of situation for me when I use Disqus's communication platform.

Absolutely appauling service. Every time I use it it says that my account has been deactivated because of inactivity, and forces me to change my password. But the emails to reset passwords take ages to arrive, and then when they do, the links in them are invalid! Unbelievable!

Completely useless discussion platform. All another user of the site needs to do is click "mark as spam" and thats it you are banned from that site for life given the sites admin don't do anything to reverse it afterwards or probably even know how and the disqus app team claims its the site admin teams responsibilty to change it. Totally useless. All a troll would ever need to do is sign up and click everyone on that site is spam and nobody could ever post on it again. That is how stupid this is.

Poor app. If you post some few views from different "politic segment" then majority of visitors of a given site (or its owner) are, your next posts here are qualified as spam. Ideal tool for censors in all totalitarian regimes. No feedback nor claims possible, just notice "Pending" or "Thanks, we'll work on getting this corrected". I'd recommend to rename this app from Disqus to ShutUp!

Always use a VPN when using this site, since these terrorists sell your info. Otherwise, it's not a bad comment app but can be glitchy sometimes.

So the first thing is apparently they track your computer IP address, so even if someone else in your household tries to sign up - they can't. Secondly they are - like some others have commented - Nazis. Yes they ban people from just one comment that they don't agree with. It doesn't even have to have four letter words or nasty words ( they have those too, and the users are often not banned) If just one moderator doesn't agree with you, then you're BANNED. ABC News is a great one for this. You cannot add another account under another email - oh, no, because they track the IP address. What other info are they tracking? Well THAT'S a good question. I understand it's a Chinese company. Trump banning Tik Tok? Hmm, maybe he should ban this? As other posts have mentioned, the site is also slanted towards liberals
( I'm independent) and I also find this abhorrent. If you ask for an email code to rest password, by the way, you will likely not get it.

I received notifications from my credit monitoring company that my information had been breached through Disqus. I have been desperately trying to access my account and see what's going on. The Disqus website has been sending me in one big loop. Not allowing me to log in. Not sending me password reset emails. I have sent over 100 at this point ( and no they aren't in my junk/spam folder). I have followed all the suggestions on the site. They also ignored me on all social networks and emails where I've begged for help. My information was compromised and I've been locked out of my account desperately trying to get in for 6 months now. Disqus doesn't care about users one bit! They will sell your information and lock you out of your account. My conclusion is that this company consists of like 3 guys. One who markets, another handles the bank accounts and the third goes around leaving fake positive reviews on sites like these to bury the comments that are exposing them. Theres absolutely no one that helps with issues.

I subscribe to The Spectator online magazine, who have devolved the management of the 'below the article' comments section, to Disqus.

I am unable to publish any comments on articles and this has been the case for six weeks. Between The Spectator (about whom I have left a similar scathing review) and Disqus I have been given a complete run-round in trying to sort out this seemingly straightforward issue.

At least with the Spectator I can e-mail an actual human being, even though they are useles, consistently eithr pointing me at Disqus or saying they are 'investigating my issue' (with an occsional side order of 'how they take these things very seriously - sure they do!)

There's no such interactions with Disqus.

Just an endless paternoster of forums (no) help groups, click-throughs and 'was this helpful' messages.

I believe Disqus are based in California but it may as well be Jupiter for all the help they are

Careful ! This is a platform that stores and sells your data. Very difficult to unsubscribe from. It would be good to make it easier to unsubscribe and ensure that people's data is deleted after they unsubscribe.

they are taking my comment in spam. although i am not a spammer. my company name is Pix Clipping Path nad i never make any spam

Why so low reviews here for that matter, I simply do not get it. It's very fantastic platform and you do get a lot from reading comments but not from reading something like the whole article anyway. Just mark my words for that matter really. Please do.

Great social platform!

Horrible site. Had a data breach and never notified any users. Thanks a lot.