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That's Disqus (YC S07). Its "reactions" piece pulls in comments from sites like HN, Reddit, and Digg into the comments widget it puts on a given blog post.

by cheald 16y ago

whimsy 16y ago
Bleh. It looks pretty useless without threading. EDIT: By threading, I mean conversation threading; this isn't a misplaced comment about the performance of La Brea.
- cheald 16y ago
  I concur. I've never really found it useful.
  - dlsspy 16y ago
    It's useful in that it lets you know that there's a conversation going on somewhere else when you're looking at the comments on the page. It might be enough to say, ``active conversation as of x [unit of time] ago over here: [link]''
jrockway 16y ago
I see. Does HN say somewhere that "anything you submit can be used for commercial purposes by YC startups"?
- baha_man 16y ago
  Interesting point, I googled for 'who owns copyright blog comments' and found this (Google cache, the site itself is down): http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6GfoIFrkhikJ:www.reasonableman.com/archive/2005/02/who_owns_blog_c.html+who+owns+copyright+blog+comments&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6GfoIFr... I'd like to hear if anyone else agrees or disagrees with this article (it seems to be a bit of a grey area).
  - kmfrk 16y ago
    I think it was when talking to Jonathan from Plagiarism Today (http://www.plagiarismtoday.com http://www.plagiarismtoday.com) that I was told that forum posts should be regarded as the authors' own, legal copyright property. I may have some old notes on this around that I can dig up. Some forums (and sites like YouTube) write some Terms of Use/EULAs to waive their content rights to the site owners (not for any nefarious reasons), although I doubt that these "agreements" hold up. If I had any comments or forum posts that were copied verbatim in a manner that upset me, I would definitely pursue it legally. But I'm a fanatic like that.

That's Disqus (YC S07). Its "reactions" piece pulls in comments from sites like HN, Reddit, and Digg into the comments widget it puts on a given blog post.

by cheald 16y ago

That's Disqus (YC S07). Its "reactions" piece pulls in comments from sites like HN, Reddit, and Digg into the comments widget it puts on a given blog post.

whimsy 16y ago

Bleh. It looks pretty useless without threading. EDIT: By threading, I mean conversation threading; this isn't a misplaced comment about the performance of La Brea.

cheald 16y ago
I concur. I've never really found it useful.
- dlsspy 16y ago
  It's useful in that it lets you know that there's a conversation going on somewhere else when you're looking at the comments on the page. It might be enough to say, ``active conversation as of x [unit of time] ago over here: [link]''

jrockway 16y ago

I see. Does HN say somewhere that "anything you submit can be used for commercial purposes by YC startups"?

baha_man 16y ago
Interesting point, I googled for 'who owns copyright blog comments' and found this (Google cache, the site itself is down): http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6GfoIFrkhikJ:www.reasonableman.com/archive/2005/02/who_owns_blog_c.html+who+owns+copyright+blog+comments&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6GfoIFr... I'd like to hear if anyone else agrees or disagrees with this article (it seems to be a bit of a grey area).
- kmfrk 16y ago
  I think it was when talking to Jonathan from Plagiarism Today (http://www.plagiarismtoday.com http://www.plagiarismtoday.com) that I was told that forum posts should be regarded as the authors' own, legal copyright property. I may have some old notes on this around that I can dig up. Some forums (and sites like YouTube) write some Terms of Use/EULAs to waive their content rights to the site owners (not for any nefarious reasons), although I doubt that these "agreements" hold up. If I had any comments or forum posts that were copied verbatim in a manner that upset me, I would definitely pursue it legally. But I'm a fanatic like that.