Best Blog Commenting Platfroms

It is becoming an important part in blogs. That is why I felt the need to write an article about it, so that people may get information about various commenting platforms at one place. Most of the bloggers use these commenting platforms or systems. Not because their default blogs  don't have commenting system, but they use 3rd party commenting platform because they have the option to modify it and make most of the changes that they can't do in their default platforms.

First I will discuss some of the benefits of using 3rd party commenting platforms:

1. Integration: It integrates easily in the templates of blogs because they come with codes compatible according ones platform. Even if a user don't know coding he can also integrate these systems.

2. Stops Spamming: It greatly helps and have often proved to be better at combating spam comments.

3. Facilitates in Discussion: If you get a question from your followers and readers and you want to reply to these questions then you cannot reply in the default comment box. Default platforms don't offer you the option to reply a particular comment. But 3rd party commenting platform not only allows you to reply but also help you foster good conversations, discussions, and interactions right on your blog.
 
So these are the benefits of 3rd party commenting platforms that are hitting my mind incredibly, but I’m sure there are more benefits. So without further delay, here are the best comment platforms according to me…

1. DISQUS

Disqus was founded in 2007 and is based in San Francisco. It is a comments platform that helps you in building an active community from your blog or website's audience. It is easy to use and it offers you awesome features, powerful tools.  According to Disqus "Disqus commenting platform is used by over half a billion people across some of the largest sites on the web". 

2. Intense Debate

Intense Debate is a comment hosting service owned by Automatic. It was launched by Techstars as a private beta in January 2007. It offers both publishers and commenters lots of features. It offers commenter to comment in their social media profiles. Here are some features of Intense Debate:

• Comment Threading

• Reply-By-Email

• Email Notifications

• Commenter Profiles

• Moderation/Blacklisting

• Reputation Points & Comment Voting

• Widgets

• Facebook Connect

• RSS Readers & Tracking,

it also offers many other features.

3. LiveFyre

It is another blog comment platform like Disqus and Intense Debate. It is not much popular as Disqus and Intense Debate, but still you can get it most of the blogs. It comes with Real-time Spam Protection and offers you to moderate comments.

4. Echo Commenting (Used to be “SezWho”)

This commenting system was initially owned by SezWho, but now it has been taken over by Echo. It allows users to share their comments on Twitter, Facebook, and FriendFeed. Echo offers awesome and well-designed features like the ability to capture social gestures and real time updating.

So, these were the major blog commenting platforms that are being used by most of the blogger, whether new or professional no matter. Now you can also pick from one of them according to your desire.