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Our Ofcom Complaint relied on Disqus comments system: were we foolish?
As you know, I have been putting alot of work into getting my Game Community's voice heard, following an outrageously ignorant broadcast on ITV's The Alan Titchmarsh Show.We submitted a complaint to Ofcom, the UK regulator, and created a blog specifically for people to sign their support.
The complaint blog is here. Here's a screenshot I've just taken of it,
We had already had great support, over 350 people had signed or commented on the blog, using Third Party comment system Disqus . As you can imagine then, I was pretty horrified to log in tonight to find all the comments had gone. I contacted Disqus and they claimed to have fixed it - but the comments are still not there, so I have informed them and await their response.Here's a picture of my in box - evidencing 380+ comments
We'll see how this turns out - but it makes me think. Should we be using third party content management systems on our blogs, when we lose so much control? We had the resources to host our own word press blog - but the easily plug in nature of a Tumblr blog and Disqus appealled.It's been a long night of frustration over this. I'm waiting to hear from Disqus on Twitter - but they don't appear to be in any rush to fix. Meanwhile, my Game Community is full of frustrated members who don't quite know what just happened.I'm discussing this on Buzz also - feel free to join in!
The complaint blog is here. Here's a screenshot I've just taken of it,
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