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Note to Readers: Changes Coming to Comments

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James A. Bacon
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As part of our slow-motion overhaul of Bacon’s Rebellion, we are shifting to a new platform, Disqus, for posting comments. It will be a bit of a pain for regular participants — you’ll have to re-register — but the change-over will give us more editorial control.

Bacon’s Rebellion has some of the sharpest, most informative dialogue of any blog or website in Virginia. We love the way readers engage in debate and expand upon our posts by providing links, photos, graphs, and maps. Now we hope to raise the bar even higher. Our immediate goal is to improve the reader experience by quickly dousing the flame wars that occasionally break out. Also, Disqus has cool features that we expect to experiment with. As always, we will be attentive to feedback from our readers.

I will be announcing other exciting changes soon.

— JAB 

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18 responses to “Note to Readers: Changes Coming to Comments”

  1. Nancy_Naive Avatar
    Nancy_Naive

    Flame wars? No James. This place is like a tea parlor in Knightsbridge compared to most. Although, I feel compelled to note that what few sparks there are seems to be between named users.

  2. Nancy_Naive Avatar
    Nancy_Naive

    Flame wars? No James. This place is like a tea parlor in Knightsbridge compared to most. Although, I feel compelled to note that what few sparks there are seems to be between named users.

  3. TBill Avatar
    TBill

    I may have a DISQUS login…if so I make you guess who I am, because it is not the same name…I was not thinking DISQUS was used too much, but it still seems to be out there

    1. TBill Avatar
      TBill

      Oh yeah I still seem to be active on DISQUS…wish I could keep my monsterous icon…but I have another icon over there

  4. TBill Avatar
    TBill

    I may have a DISQUS login…if so I make you guess who I am, because it is not the same name…I was not thinking DISQUS was used too much, but it still seems to be out there

    1. TBill Avatar
      TBill

      Oh yeah I still seem to be active on DISQUS…wish I could keep my monsterous icon…but I have another icon over there

  5. V N Avatar
    V N

    Thanks Jim. I have Disqus and I’d be happy with that because I’ve never been able to really work well with this system.

  6. V N Avatar
    V N

    Thanks Jim. I have Disqus and I’d be happy with that because I’ve never been able to really work well with this system.

  7. Nancy_Naive Avatar
    Nancy_Naive

    Bray School for slave and free black children 1760

    Where’s that Whitehead guy? He might enjoy this. There is an annoying overlay mid page that makes reading difficult for a paragraph or two…

    https://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2021/colonial-williamsburg-joins-william-mary-to-research,-relocate,-interpret-18th-century-bray-school-for-enslaved-and-free-black-children.php?utm_source=wm_weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=feb_26_2021

  8. Nancy_Naive Avatar
    Nancy_Naive

    Bray School for slave and free black children 1760

    Where’s that Whitehead guy? He might enjoy this. There is an annoying overlay mid page that makes reading difficult for a paragraph or two…

    https://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2021/colonial-williamsburg-joins-william-mary-to-research,-relocate,-interpret-18th-century-bray-school-for-enslaved-and-free-black-children.php?utm_source=wm_weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=feb_26_2021

    1. Nancy Naive Avatar
      Nancy Naive

      Cool, there’s a break in the new comment system

  9. Nancy Naive Avatar
    Nancy Naive

    Hello?

    James Whitehead might appreciate this.. Bray School for slave and free black children circa 1760

    https://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2021/colonial-williamsburg-joins-william-mary-to-research,-relocate,-interpret-18th-century-bray-school-for-enslaved-and-free-black-children.php?utm_source=wm_weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=feb_26_2021

  10. Stephen Haner Avatar
    Stephen Haner

    So, go to the home page and look at past posts, and all the comments seem to be gone. All that work lost to posterity….I wonder how this “sort by best” function is going to work.

  11. James A. Bacon Avatar
    James A. Bacon

    The past comments are only temporarily lost. Bacon’s Rebellion has logged hundreds of thousands of comments over the years, and importing such a massive volume created some technical issues. JP is still working on it.

    1. John Harvie Avatar
      John Harvie

      Fingers crossed…

  12. tmtfairfax Avatar
    tmtfairfax

    Thanks for getting the login problems fixed.

  13. Stephen Haner Avatar
    Stephen Haner

    Maybe I need to set something, but I no longer get pinged on my phone as the hair on fire crowd posts comment after comment on my energy article. I can feel my BP is lower….Maybe that’s the key, I post, answer a few of the first comments (esp if they are legit questions) and then ignore….

    1. Nancy Naive Avatar
      Nancy Naive

      Sounds like that pigeon and my car…

      BTW, “Recent Comments” appears to be working, albeit with about a 1-hour lag. Combined with “Sort by Newest”, one should be able to snark back in a timely fashion.

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