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I totally agree with that. When I build my websites I systematically refuse to use the whole "social" stack. I don't really care if I have less users or if they have to register, I think these things matter more than the extra effort you have to put in to think about an alais.

Sadly this article illustrates also the hypocrisy of these claims because down below you can see "Post your comment with Disqus" and not a single alternative... Ironic isn't it ?

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Yep. I use disqus because there isn't an alternative that does a good job of keeping out spammers. I guess that's another angle entirely - that we use the "social stack" as a way to band-aid more obvious and pressing problems like "FREE IPAD TAKE THIS SURVEY" etc.

Sure there is -- Mollom. http://mollom.com/

Disqus lets you post as a "Guest" with any name you want. In fact, it's the default choice in the "Post as..." dialog, at least if you're not logged in.

Well, I had a nice comment typed up but wasn't able to actually send it without registering. Which coincidentally my comment was about :s

That's a site owner setting, and this site owner -- despite the article content -- appears to be denying anonymous posts.

You can use Disqus anonymously if you want. Also it is much better than the alternatives at detecting spammers.

From a WordPress installation on which, even with Akismet enabled, I've had on average about 3-400 spams per day I have zero spams now.

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