In reply to Alec.

Hi Alec,

I certainly appreciate your (and everyone's) efforts in trying to make WP better and fill in some of the holes. I think you nailed it regarding core.

That said, I'm not sure I require a perfect option/experience, but I have a standard in terms of UX/UI I'm trying to achieve, or would like for site users.

wpDisquz looks the closest so far, but as you point out above, there might be some downsides as well. (I doubt performance would be a big issue, as I'm on a really good host... but there's still getting email notifications out reliably, likely dealing with spam, etc.)

Again, I'm not opposed to better comment moderation, but for me, that hasn't been the primary complaint with native comments.