Note: If you want to try Intense Debate, Ilker at The Thinking Blog has a few invites left!

I installed a new comment system on the site. I’m not quite sure how I like it so I need some feed back. Comment to your hearts content. Try to break it. Comment 50 times. Comment on comments. I just want to see what happens and if this new system is all it’s cracked up to be.

It’s called Intense Debate, it’s in beta(ish). It would be great if it works out, but the administration system is a bit off-putting. It seems you have to approve everything through their site, and not on the blog. To me, that means they can monitor all of my traffic and the comments left of the blog. I’m not sure if I like that or not and I’m leaning towards not. Maybe someone from Intense Debate will see this and can answer my questions (especially since I am leeching the image above from their page).

Give me your feedback on the system - the look, the feel, etc. - as well as what you think about administering comments from a place other than the WP control panel.

Update: Tech Crunch has a review of the system I just found, I guess ID does have some cool benefits.

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