I'm also quite skeptical about Disqus from a number of aspects, but this is a very interesting feature, with the potential to do for commenting what github is doing for code hosting - i.e. explode it to a new level.
Great... now if you only could do that from HN in addition to Disqus ;~)
Seriously, how long before HN comments can integrate with Disqus?
Disqus doesn't provide any way for non-WP sites to import comments. That would make this sort of integration rather difficult.
Personally, I'd really like to add disqus to my blog, but I'm not going to do that until I can preserve my existing comments.
Why couldn't you do it similar to how google adwords works..?
This is a great idea to encourage more thoughtful discussion through blogs. Those disqus guys are smart.
Apparently NY Times is trying to enable blog comments better. Disqus should really contact them about being the backend software for this.
Disqus are really doing some good stuff here. At first I was quite sceptical about Disqus, but actually, it's a useful service from the point of view of the user. Disqus has the potential to become the thread that links together a bunch of blogs into a real community.