In reply to Laura.

Hi Laura,

You do realise you are using WP.com comments here, which equally pernicious as Disqus. Equally I'm not crying over the convalescence of Intense Debate (although it's a pity when large companies buy technology to shutter it, whether Apple (Shake), Google (Nik Plugins, on life support), Adobe (RawShooter), Yahoo (Delicious) or Automattic.

I don't see any reason why blog owners should have to use a third party service to have decent comment functionality. Improve core comments guys!

I've offered Thoughtful Comments (front end comment moderation and comment caching with years of development and testing behind it on some of the internet's busiest political sites) to core as free technology. There seems to be little interest in improving core comments unfortunately.