Have a comment about any of the blog stories or the blog in general? Here's a new Disqus comment section...

 

Please try out the new comment feature. Let me know what you think about any of the blog stories or the blog in general.

Disqus is the best and most feature loaded commenting platform I have seen. You can upload images, links, and use some basic formatting like bold, italics, and put excerpts in quotes.

From Wikipedia:

Disqus (/dɪsˈkʌs/) is an American blog comment hosting service for web sites and online communities that use a networked platform. The company's platform includes various features, such as social integration, social networking, user profiles, spam and moderation tools, analytics, email notifications, and mobile commenting. It was founded in 2007 by Daniel Ha and Jason Yan as a Y Combinator startup.

In 2011, Disqus ranked No. 2 in Quantcast's U.S. networks with 151 million monthly unique U.S. visits.^[2] Disqus was featured on CNN, The Daily Telegraph, and IGN, and about 750,000 blogs and web sites.^[3]

Of course, please keep your comments respectful. 

Thanks,

Hal

If you don't see the Disqus comment section click here and scroll down.

Addendum:

You can see the differences in the comments sections in the image above (click to enlarge):

You can see that The NY Times, Wash. Post, and HUFFPOST have internal comment sections. The Post offers some formatting, all you can post on The NY Times is text and links. NY Times reviews comments and send you and email when your comment is published. On HUFFPOST you can include formatting, an emoji, and an image as well as links. Raw Story uses Disqus as does its sister website AlterNet.

One benefit of the collaboration between Salon and Raw Story is that the former doesn't allow comments on any stories but many of them  are republished on Raw Story where you are able to comment.

In 2015 the website of Neiman Lab published an article about what happened when seven major news websites stopped allowing comments (here).

Of course if anyone wants to comment of a story which is published on a website that doesn't allow comments they can express their opinion or reaction on social media websites. This is a far cry from being able to comment where people who read the article are most likely to read what one has to say.