Comments on: bbPress for WordPress http://www.g-loaded.eu/2007/04/25/bbpress-for-wordpress/ An open-source software and technology related journal Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:35:21 +0000 hourly 1 By: Ehi Akwara http://www.g-loaded.eu/2007/04/25/bbpress-for-wordpress/#comment-10459 Ehi Akwara Wed, 02 May 2007 21:03:55 +0000 http://www.g-loaded.eu/2007/04/25/bbpress-for-wordpress/#comment-10459 I disagree with the commenter. I agree with most of this article. I too started using bbpress instead of comments. apart from all the reasons given, it gives a simple place to see all the comments, and essentially facilitate the initiation of discussions. but I have a magazine site, so I needed something that addressed the need for a community that would directly feed off the articles. commenting seems to be very Blog-based in comparison. it is my second day using it. I have some tweaks, but I like it so far. I disagree with the commenter. I agree with most of this article. I too started using bbpress instead of comments. apart from all the reasons given, it gives a simple place to see all the comments, and essentially facilitate the initiation of discussions. but I have a magazine site, so I needed something that addressed the need for a community that would directly feed off the articles. commenting seems to be very Blog-based in comparison.

it is my second day using it. I have some tweaks, but I like it so far.

]]> By: agorf http://www.g-loaded.eu/2007/04/25/bbpress-for-wordpress/#comment-10458 agorf Sat, 28 Apr 2007 10:09:23 +0000 http://www.g-loaded.eu/2007/04/25/bbpress-for-wordpress/#comment-10458 I'll start commenting bottom-up. First, the nofollow rel(ation) is practically useless IMO since spammers will spam a blog either way. The problem is that spamming is so cheap for them that they can afford spamming without having any effect on Google's PageRank. This is far cheaper than checking themselves whether a candidate blog for spam has nofollow integrated into its links (or recoding their spiders to pay attension to rel attributes). I prefer PunBB. :-) I think it's a bad idea to replace the comment system of a weblog with forums since this "breaks compatibility" with what the other 99.999% weblogs do. And it's worse if one of the reasons you do it is for spam (you can't have spam dictate what you do, right?). My point is this makes commenting not as intuitive as before and may make possible commenters just not bother. Having to register is also a pain. Every extra account registered might be an extra password to remember for a certain amount of users. My 2 €cents. I’ll start commenting bottom-up. First, the nofollow rel(ation) is practically useless IMO since spammers will spam a blog either way. The problem is that spamming is so cheap for them that they can afford spamming without having any effect on Google’s PageRank. This is far cheaper than checking themselves whether a candidate blog for spam has nofollow integrated into its links (or recoding their spiders to pay attension to rel attributes).

I prefer PunBB. :-)

I think it’s a bad idea to replace the comment system of a weblog with forums since this “breaks compatibility” with what the other 99.999% weblogs do. And it’s worse if one of the reasons you do it is for spam (you can’t have spam dictate what you do, right?). My point is this makes commenting not as intuitive as before and may make possible commenters just not bother. Having to register is also a pain. Every extra account registered might be an extra password to remember for a certain amount of users.

My 2 €cents.

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